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Lot 3256 - Z40 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 24. June 2016, 02.00 PM

HANS ARP

(Strassbourg 1888 - 1966 Basel)
Design für mural relief TU Braunschweig.
Gouache and ballpen on paper.
36 x 102 cm.

Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland.

In the 1950s Hans Arp accepted several commissions, including the preparation of a relief for the Auditorium Maximum (main auditorium), a building for the newly planned Forumplatz at the university in Braunschweig. Friedrich Wilhelm Kramer, the responsible architect who had been commissioned with planning the entire university, oriented his work on that of the great Bauhaus architects and decided to give the commission for this large wall relief to Arp, who was already a well-known artist. For the relief, inaugurated in 1960, Arp produced several sketches and collages, including the work on paper offered here. The grid lines in ballpoint pen probably helped Arp harmoniously construct the proportions and distances between the individual forms. The sketch-like effect created by the grid provides an attractive insight into Arp‘s work process before the completion of the final relief, which today hangs magnificently on the west facade of the university’s auditorium.


CHF 6 000 / 9 000 | (€ 6 190 / 9 280)

Sold for CHF 34 100 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.