PIFO Works｜Karl Fred Dahmen (1917-1981)

Karl Fred Dahmen 

Ohne Titel, 1960-1962, Collage, chalk and gouache, 63 x 51.5 cm

Signed and Dated "Dahmen" (bottom left)

Abstract Art 11 - Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China, Installation view

Karl Fred Dahmen

(1917-1981)

Born in Stolberg (near Aachen) in 1917, Germany, Karl Fred Dahmen attended the art school in Aachen from 1931 until its closure in 1933. In 1967 he was appointed professor at the Munich Academy of Arts, and moved to Chiemgau. There he spends the last years of his life.

As a painter and object artist, Dahmen is one of the earliest and most important representatives of the Informel and is one of the most important artists of the post-war period in Germany. In the postwar period, he lived in Paris influenced by Ecole de Paris. As a co-founder of the Neue Aachener Gruppe, he is keen to encourage a cultural exchange with the "Ecole de Paris". In 1953 he and his representatives organized the first Franco-German exhibition "Heute" in the Aachen Museum. In 1957 Dahmen joined the Deutscher Künstlerbund. There he belongs to the group of "German Tachists Deutscher Künstlerbund", the works of the early phase of the work reveal these influences. In addition, the artist's early work includes wooden collages in addition to the tachistically oriented images. 

Karl Fred Dahmen 

Von Tag auf Tag, 1975, Colored pencil on paper, 109 x 73.5 cm 

Signed and Dated "Dahmen" (bottom)

Karl Fred Dahmen 

Komposition, 1957, Mixed media collaged with papers, tempera, 70.5 x 55.5 cm

Signed and Dated "Dahmen 57" (bottom left)

From the mid-sixties, the artist increasingly integrated various objects into his pictures. Material images and object boxes are created, making a connection of the work of art to life over real things. Dahmen received the first international art prize for abstract painting in 1959 and Graphic Arts Prize in 1972. His works are widely included in major museums like Museum Ludwig, Museum Folkwang, Pompidou, Kunstmusuem Basel and other private collections.

Karl Fred Dahmen 

Ohne Titel (Grü?e an M), 1965, Mixed media with papers on canvas, 57.5 x 50 cm

Signed and Dated "Dahmen" (bottom)

Karl Fred Dahmen 

Tele-Landschaft mit Objekt, 1969, Mixed Media, 83.6 x 38.4 cm

Selected Exhibitions

2018

Abstract Art 11 - Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study Between Germany and China, PIFO Gallery, Beijing

Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

2017     

Gallery Maulberger, Munich

Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

Leopold-hoesch-museum Paper Museum, Duren

2014      

Villa Museum Zinkhütter Hof, Stolberg

2012      

Gallery Maulberger, Munich

2011      

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

2010      

Miscellaneous, Galerie Peter Zimmermann,  Mannheim Germany

2003

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

2000      

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

1999      

Gallery Kahlen / Titz, Aachen-Kornelimünster

1995      

Art Gallery, Munich

1993     

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

Gallery Sander, Darmstadt

1992      

Gallery Nawrocki, Cologne

1991      

Gallery Maier, Kitzbühel 

Gallery Nawrocki, Cologne

1990      

Gallery Kolon, Cologne

Gallery Rothe, Frankfurt

Gallery Wiechern, Hamburg

1989      

Gallery Gunzenhauser, Munich

1988      

Gallery Heseler, Munich

1987     

Gallery Carla Supporters, Cologne

Gallery Erhard Witzel, Offebach

1986     

Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen

Gallery in winter, Bremen

1985      

Gallery Lahumiere, Paris 

Modern gallery of the Saarland museum Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken

1984      

Gallery Nothelfer, Berlin

Gallery Regio, March

1983     

Gallery at the Künstlerhaus Schaller, Stuttgart

Gallery Regio, March

Gallery Rehklau, Augsburg

1982     

Gallery Haus 11, Karlsruhe

Gallery Hennemann. Bonn

Gallery Rothe, Heidelberg

Galerie von Loe / Lüpke / Sch?nbrunn, Frankfurt

1981     

Gallery Carla Stutzer, Cologne

Gallery Wintersberger, Cologne

Mirage Gallery, Los Angeles

Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen

1980      

Ado Gallery, Bonheiden 

Ado Gallery, Brussels 

Gallery Dibbert, Berlin

Gallery Gunzenhauser Munich

Gallery Stekhoven, Westensee am See

Gallery Angs, New York

Small graphic gallery, Bremen

1979     

Gallery & edition A, Munich

Gallery Heimeshoff, Essen

Gallery Hennemann. Bonn

Gallery La Cite, Luxembourg 

Modern Gallery, Bad Zwischenahn

Gallery Nothelfer. Berlin

Gallery Rehklau, Augsburg

Gallery Stolanova, Wiesbaden

1978     

Gallery Klaus Lüpke, Frankfurt

Galerie Lohrl, Willich-Schiefbahn

Gallery Maier, Kitzbuhel 

Galerie Verbeke, Paris 

Gallery Wintersberger, Cologne

Gallery Wittenbrink, Regensburg

Goethe-Institut, Paris 

International Art Market Düsseldorf gallery

Modern Art Gallery, Houston 

1977      

Galerie Charles Munchen, Luxembourg 

Gallery Foerster, Munster

Gallery House 11, Karlsruhe

Gallery Nothelfer, Berlin

Galleri Flindt, Aarhus 

Gallery H.M. K Fine Arts, New York 

Gramercy Park Fine Arts, NY

1976      

Gallery Bla, Oslo 

Gallery E Seuss, Frankfurt am Main

Gallery Frederic Gollong, St. Paul-de-vence 

Modern Gallery, Bad Zwischenahn

Gallery Rehklau, Augsburg

Galerie Verbeke, Paris 

Junior Gallery, Copenhagen 

Junior Gallery, Zurich  

Leopold-hoesch-museum Paper Museum, Duren

New Gallery of the City of Linz -wolfgang-gurlitt Museum, Linz 

1975     

Gallery Gunther Franke, Munich

Gallery Hennemann, Bonn

Galerie Hermanns, Furstenfeldbruck

Gallery Krull, Krefeld

Galerie Lohrl, Willich-Schiefbahn

Gallery Lornsenstrasse, Kiel

Modern Gallery, Silkeborg 

Gallery Nothelfer, Berlin

Gallery Rothe, Heidelberg

Gallery Rothenstein, Bremen

Junior Gallery, Dusseldorf

Junior Gallery, Cologne

1974     

BMW Gallery, Munich

Gallery Hennemann, Bonn

Gallery in Zielemp, Olten 

Gallery Jaeschke, Brunswick

Gallery Lometsch, Kassel

Gallery Riis, Trondheim 

1973      

Gallery Gunther Franke, Munich

Gallery Kuhn, Aachen

Gallery Rothe, Heidelberg

1972      

Gallery 2, Stuttgart

Gallery Edition Schneider, Karlsruhe

Gallery Kessler, Bonn-Bad Godesberg

Gallery Lauter, Mannheim

Gallery Merian, Krefeld

Small Grafilk Gallery, Bremen

Kunstverein Munchen, Munich

1971    

Gallery Hardenstein, Bremen

Gramercy Park Fine Arts, New York 

1970     

Gallery Merino, Worms

Gallery Raeber, Lucerne 

1969      

Gallery 66, Hofheim im Taunus

Gallery Gunther Franke, Munich

Gallery Ivan Spencer, Ibiza 

Gallery Lauter, Mannheim

1966      

Gallery Lauter, Mannheim

Gallery Les Trois Feuilles d'or, Beirut 

Gallery Raeber, Lucerne 

1965      

Gallery La Roue, Paris 

Galleria Flaviana, Locarno 

Small graphic gallery, Bremen

Landolinshof, Esslingen

Suermondt Museum, Aachen

1964      

Gallery Gunther Franke, Munich

Gallery Prestel, Frankfurt am Main

State Art School Bremen, Bremen

1963      

Gallery Delta, Rotterdam 

Gallery Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden

Gallery Ivan Spence, Ibiza 

Gallery Rothe, Heidelberg

Galleri Haaken, Oslo 

Lefebre Gallery, New York 

1962     

Gallery Gunther Franke, Munich

1961     

Gallery Anne Abels, Cologne

Gallery Baier, Mainz

Gallery La Roue, Paris 

Galleria Pater, Milan 

1960      

Galerie d'art Moderne, Stuttgart

Gallery Hella Nebelung, Dusseldorf

Gallery Renate Boukes. Wiesbaden

Island Gallery, Hamburg

1959     

Gallery Aujourd hui, Brussel 

Gallery La Roue, Paris 

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim

New gallery Parnass-J?hrling, Wuppertal 

SKh. Mannheim

1958      

Gallery 22, Dusseldorf

Gallery La Roue, Paris 

Leopold-hoesch-museum Paper Museum, Duren

1957     

Gallery Vertiko, Bonn

Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt

1955     

Gallery Arnaud, Paris 

1953     

Heute, Aachen Museum, Aachen 

1951     

Gallery Kasper, Ascona 

1949     

Suermondt Museum, Aachen

1948     

Galerie Leithauser, Wuppertal

Suermondt Museum, Aachen

1946      

Suermondt Museum, Aachen

 Current Exhibition 

Installation views

Related link: 

Opening｜Abstract Art 11 – Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric.

Exhibited Artists:

PIFO Works｜Bernard Schultze (1915-2005)

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