Harmurt Böhn

HARTMUT BÖHN (Kassel, Germany, 1938- 2021).
"Untitled.
Silkscreen on paper. Copy 52/99.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 99 x 69 cm.
Hartmut Böhm is one of the leading exponents of European abstract art. His work, based on a minimalist approach, the selection of unconventional materials and the search for a new artistic expression or aesthetic message, has influenced many of his contemporaries, as well as those of a younger generation. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste with Arnold Bode, founder and curator of Documenta. Böhm produced his first system-based work in 1959. Several years later, his work was included in the seminal exhibition Nouvelle Tendance. His work is in seventy public collections worldwide, including those of the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY); Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA); Josef Albers Museum (Bottrop, Germany); Städtisches Kunstmuseum (Bonn, Germany); Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (Hagen, Germany); Museum für konkrete Kunst (Ingolstadt, Germany); Albertinum der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung (Dresden, Germany); Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Ludwigshafen, Germany); Pinakothek der Moderne, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, Germany); Stiftung für konkrete Kunst (Reutlingen, Germany); Museum Ritter (Waldenbuch, Germany); Donation Albers-Honegger (Mouans-Sartoux, France); Musée Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France); Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst (Humlebæk, Denmark); Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz, Poland); Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst (Zurich, Switzerland); Richard Paul Lohse-Stiftung (Zurich, Switzerland); Mondriaanhuis (Amersfoort, Netherlands); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna, Austria); and Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel), among many others.