Mixed media on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed and dated, titled, with dimensions and numbered “50P” on the reverse of the canvas. With direction arrow, further dated, titled and numbered “50P” on the stretcher, as well as with an exhibition label. 96 x 100 cm.
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• Greis, as a co-founder of the artists' group “Quadriga”, was one of the pioneers of German Art Informel.
• In the late 1950s, his examination of light and color led him to a glazed and floating expression.
• Greis presented his abstract and dynamic paintings at documenta II in 1959.
LITERATURE: Werner Haftmann et al. (eds.), Otto Greis. Aufbruch in eine neue Bildwirklichkeit, catalogue raisonné of paintings by Ulla Siegert, Munich 2000, p. 66 (with ill.), no. 144, p. 159.