Heinrich Siepmann - B 22 1994, 1994
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm / framed 92 x 70 cm
31 x 23 inch / framed 36 x 27 inch
Signed bottom right, dated "Siepmann 94"
Labelled verso "heinrich Siepmann
Mülheim an der Ruhr B 22/ 1994 80 x 60"
Cat. Rais. Ulrich No. 1100
- with studio frame -
N 9248
6,800 €
Heinrich Siepmann - B 22 1994, 1994
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm / framed 92 x 70 cm
31 x 23 inch / framed 36 x 27 inch
Signed bottom right, dated "Siepmann 94"
Labelled verso "heinrich Siepmann
Mülheim an der Ruhr B 22/ 1994 80 x 60"
Cat. Rais. Ulrich No. 1100
- with studio frame -
N 9248
6,800 €
About the work
In his art, Heinrich Siepmann primarily pursues the goal of “creating a pictorial organism that unites space, area and conception within it, reduces the formal canon to the most common denominator and strives for sensitisation, consonance and tension in the pictorial treatment of the colour matter.” With great sensitivity, he designs his large oeuvre of individual works from his seemingly boundless repertoire of forms. Fascinating are the most diverse variations and combinations of the formal constellations of rectangles and trapezoids, verticals and horizontals, squares and circles. The application of paint and the tone of the works vary accordingly.
It also becomes particularly clear in this aspect of accentuation with colour that Siepmann was no cool constructivist. “Siepmann is no mathematician, but instead more of a lyric poet who controls his feelings”, Sabine Fehlemann verifies in an article on the occasion of the presentation of his works in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2001.
Heinrich Siepmann, however, is not presenting poems in his works. Instead, he develops an eloquent game or “chatty, rational combinatorics” through the combination of the individual areas and lines. (Sabine Fehlemann)
(Andrea Fink)
Text authored and provided by Dr Andrea Fink, art historian
The art historian, curator and freelance publicist Andrea Fink studied art history, cultural studies and humanities, modern history and philosophy in Bochum and Vienna. Doctorate in 2007 on the work of the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. As a freelance curator and art consultant, her clients include, among others, the Kunstverein (art association) Ahlen, Kunstverein Soest, Wella Museum, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, ThyssenKrupp AG, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Franz Haniel GmbH, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.