Karl Fred Dahmen

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Karl Fred Dahmen (born November 4, 1917 in Stolberg (Rhld.) , † January 12, 1981 in Preinersdorf am Chiemsee ) was a German artist.

Life

In 1932 and 1933 he attended the Aachen School of Applied Arts until it closed . From 1936 to 1938 he trained as a commercial graphic designer .

After his military service and his captivity (1939-1945) he visited Paris for the first time in 1951 . Inspired by new ideas from the École de Paris , he and a few colleagues founded the “New Aachen Group” in 1952. His contacts in France enabled him to organize the first Franco-German exhibition in 1953 under the title “Today”. In addition to Aachen , Cologne and Düsseldorf were other exhibition locations. In 1954 he worked as a drawing teacher at a private school in Aachen. In 1957 he became a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1958 he took part as a guest of Gruppe 53 in their exhibition in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, and in 1959 he joined this artists' association. In the same year he was able to present his work to a larger audience at the documenta II in Kassel . In 1964 he was given a teaching position at the Bremen Art School , where Jimmi D. Paesler was one of his students. In 1966 he became a member of the New Munich Group and the West German Artists Association. In 1967 he received a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Among his students there were Günther Förg , Dieter Breitschwerdt, Alfred Kaiser, Wolfgang Flatz , Hans Schnell, Dagmar Rhodius, Wolfgang Lauter and Klaus Walterspiel. In 1974 Dahmen became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1978 Karl Fred Dahmen lived in Preinersdorf, where he died in 1981. Dahmen was buried in the mountain cemetery in his native Stolberg .

In 2003 the catalog raisonné of the unique KF Dahmen - catalog raisonné appeared. Volume I 1946–1964 and Volume II 1966–1981. , created by Thomas Weber, Karl Fred Dahmen Archive (Boisserée Gallery, Cologne) at the Walther König publishing house, Cologne.

His estate, which includes the artistic oeuvre and part of the extensive archive, is located in Cologne at VAN HAM Art Estate.

Act

In the works of Karl Fred Dahmen, the influence of Tachism can already be found in his pictures from the early work phase. In addition to tachistic-oriented images, the artist's early work also included wood collages . From the mid-1960s onwards, Dahmen increasingly integrated various objects into his pictures; material pictures and object boxes emerge with which Dahmen pursues goals similar to the “ Nouveaux Réalistes ”, namely a link between the work of art and life through real things. His Munich professorship prompted Karl Fred Dahmen to settle in 1967 in Niederham im Chiemgau , the landscape of which became his great reservoir ("Telelandschaften"). He later mounted found objects from the area into these upholstered pictures and used them to create symbolic monuments that ran counter to beauty (»Galgenbilder«, »Chiemgaulegende«). In his last years Dahmen painted bright, silent pictures full of ciphers and notations.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1946: Suermondt Museum , Aachen
  • 1948: Galerie Leithäuser, Wuppertal
  • 1951: Kasper Gallery, Ascona (CH)
  • 1955: Galerie Arnaud, Paris (F): divergences 3
  • 1957: CCC Gallery (Cultureel Contact Centrum), Schiedam (NL): KF Dahmen
  • 1959: Kunsthalle Mannheim : Karl Fred Dahmen - paintings and graphics 1950–1959
  • 1961: Galerie La Roue, Paris (F): KF Dahmen
  • 1963: Lefebre Gallery, New York (USA): Karl Fred Dahmen
  • 1970: Kunstverein Kassel , Kassel
  • 1972: KF Dahmen: Small retrospective 1962 - 1972 . Galerie Lauter , Mannheim, February 25th. - April 12, 1972.
  • 1973: Art Basel , Basel (CH) - Galerie Regio
  • 1976: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren: KF Dahmen - The color etchings of the Chiemgau period 1967–1976
  • 1979: Art Center, Los Angeles (USA)
  • 1988: Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein eV, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • 1994: Art Cologne , Cologne - Galerie Boisserée
  • 2014: Villa Museum Zinkhütter Hof Stolberg Rhld., “In memoriam” Karl Fred Dahmen - drawings and early works
  • 2017: MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg - Karl Fred Dahmen - The Landscape Principle
  • 2017: Leopold Hoesch Museum and Paper Museum, Düren - Karl Fred Dahmen - The Landscape Principle

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1958: Palais d'Expositions, Charleroi (B): Art of the 21st century (part of the 1958 World's Fair)
  • 1959: documenta II - world language
  • 1961: Musée d'Art Moderne , Paris (F): Réalitées Nouvelles
  • 1962: National Museum , Tokyo (J): Biennale Exhibition of Prints
  • 1967: New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe-Darmstadt
  • 1976: I. International Graphic Biennale, Fredrikstadt (N)
  • 1981: Art Center, Los Angeles (USA)

Works in museums

literature

  • Juliane Roh : KF Dahmen . Exhibition catalog of the Günther Franke Gallery, Munich 1969.
  • Rolf-Gunter Dienst (introduction): KF Dahmen. The painterly work 1950–1972. Munich 1972.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt : German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 48f.
  • Thomas Weber, Galerie Boisserée (adaptation), Volker Dahmen (ed.), Thomas Weber, Johannes Schilling, Tayfun Belgin: KF Dahmen - catalog raisonné. Volume I: 1946-1964 and Volume II: 1966-1981. Published by the Walther König bookstore, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-750-0 .
  • Klaus Honnef : Karl Fred Dahmen and photography , VAN HAM Art Publications (ed.), Cologne 2013.
  • Walter Smerling & Ina Hesselmann (eds.): Karl Fred Dahmen - The principle of landscape . Contributions: Peter Baum, Ina Hesselmann, Karlheinz Goerres, Klaus Honnef, Peter Ludwig, Manfred de la Motte and Thomas Weber, foreword: Renate Goldmann and Walter Smerling, conception and editing: Ina Hesselmann and Thomas Weber, at Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2017, Foundation for Art and Culture eV Bonn, ISBN 978-3-86832-386-3 .
  • Dahmen, Karl Fred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 510 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in Rosenheim according to Walther Killy (Hrsg.): German biographical encyclopedia. (DBE). Volume 2: Bohacz - Ebhardt. Saur, Munich et al. 1995, ISBN 3-598-23162-8 .
  2. ↑ exhibition catalog PRISMA'70 , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (18 September to 1 November 1970). P. 6: Members 1970
  3. ^ Karl Fred Dahmen at van-ham.com, accessed April 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Dirk Müller Exhibition to pay tribute to Karl Fred Dahmen , in Aachener Zeitung on November 24, 2013
  5. ↑ Karl Fred Dahmen. The landscape principle ( memento of the original from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on artmagazin.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  6. ↑ Bibliography. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dahmen, Karl Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1981
Place of death Preinersdorf am Chiemsee