K. R. H. Sonderborg, Untitled, Ink Drawing, Informel, Signed and Dated

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K.r.h. Sonderborg

sonderborg 1923 - 2008 hamburg

untitled, 1991

signed and dated lower right
size: 59 x 37 cm
frame: … Read more K.r.h. Sonderborg

sonderborg 1923 - 2008 hamburg

untitled, 1991

signed and dated lower right
size: 59 x 37 cm
frame: 70.5 x 49 cm

model frame, museum glass

authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

"for me, every time i painted a picture, it was as if my life depended on it," said kurt rudolf hoffmann, who officially adopted the name k.r.h. Sonderborg in 1951, after his birthplace, to avoid being identified as a german artist after the war. Before studying at the hamburg state school of art under willem grimm and maria may, sonderborg spent a year as a private student of the painter ewald becker-carus in hamburg. In 1953, he became a member of the artists' group "zen 49." big-city impressions, triggered by stays in paris, london, and new york, environmental sounds, and jazz—his father is a jazz musician—play a central role in sonderborg's work. From the early 1950s onward, sonderborg came into contact with american action painting. With spontaneous application of paint, he achieved the depiction of a structural framework that makes form visible in its process of becoming. Thus, sonderborg's work is far closer to american gestural painting than to european informel. In 1958, he participated in the venice biennale and in 1960 was awarded the printmaking prize at the tokyo biennale, as well as the grand international prize for drawing at the são paulo biennial in 1963. A participant in documenta (1959 and 1964), he taught in stuttgart (1965), minneapolis (1969/70), and chicago (1986). In 1988, sonderborg received the hans moltener prize. This piece has an attribution mark,
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