Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the reverse. Titled and inscribed on the stretcher. 60.8 x 60.8 cm. Frame dimensions: 62,3 x 62,3 cm.
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- From the 1930s onwards, Anton Stankowski was one of the early German protagonists of Constructivist-Concrete art. - In 1964, his works were shown at documenta III in Kassel. - Between 1969 and 1972, he was chairman of the Visual Design Committee for the Munich Olympics. The artist particularly devoted himself to graphic design and "functional graphics" and created many brands, signs, and visual images. - In the year the present work was made, Stankowski designed the reduced Deutsche Bank logo, among other things. - A composition with reduced colors and an unambiguous, expressive language.
LITERATURE: Stephan von Wiese (ed.), Anton Stankowski. Das Gesamtwerk (1925-1982), Stuttgart 1983, p. 196 (illu. in black and white, no. 6).