German Artist Berhard Johannes Blume Signed Print. Margarete Roeder Gallery NYC

Description: For sale is one of several original limited edition prints by the highly regarded contemporary German artist Bernhard Johannes Blume (1937 - 2011) that we are selling in our eBay Store. Please see our eBay Store for additional prints from this artist. Provenance: Margarete Roeder Gallery, NYC Artist: Bernhard Johannes Blume (1937 - 2011) Medium: Lithograph on paper Date: 1984 Signature: Signed in Pencil Edition: Artist Proof 2/10 Condition: Good. Minor waves/creases Measurements: 26 7:8" x 19 5/8" PRINT SHIPS CAREFULLY ROLLED IN A LARGE SHIPPING TUBE Bernhard Johannes Blume (1937 - 2011) Cologne, Germany He studied with Joseph Beuys in the early ’60s and has made drawings and photographs since the ’70s. He is probably best known to a wider international public through his participation in Documenta 6 in 1977 and in Kasper König’s show “Von hier aus” (From here out) in Düsseldorf in 1984. At that show Blume exhibited a series of large-format, black-and-white photographs that he had made in 1984 and called “Wahnzimmer” (Insaneroom, a play on the German word Wohnzimmer, meaning living room). Here we saw furniture, porcelain, accessories, and objects that, in a reversal of the customary roles, became active subjects rebelling against their owners and the rigid order of the bourgeois living room. In “Wahnzimmer” diagonals and vortices are the dominant compositional structures, and nothing is upright; there is no above or below. Blume has always been interested in banal, everyday things, not for the esthetic value of their surface appearance, such as we know it from Purist painting and Bauhaus photography, but from the Romantic perspective that sees “things” as animated with “spirit.” In Romanticism, this idea was one of the tenets of an all-encompassing philosophy of nature (which included human beings as a part of nature), a philosophy that developed in opposition to man’s growing control over nature in the early stages of the machine age. Blume’s work radicalizes this idea: he presents things as beings that oppose their exploitation and functionalization by acting autonomously.

Price: 295 USD

Location: Kingston, New York

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