Heinz Kreutz (1923-2016) - Sin título

Original silkscreen by Heinz Kreutz (*)
Printing on high-grade Velin cotton cardboard (300 g/m2).
Hand-signed and justified by the artist.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

Specifications:

Sheet dimensions: 40.5 x 40.5 cm
Year: 1970
Edition: 81/100
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is therefore offered in excellent condition)

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(*) Heinz Kreutz (1923–2016) is one of the most fascinating and chameleon-like figures of postwar German abstract art. Although historically famous for co-founding in 1952 the legendary group Quadriga—with Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze, and Otto Greis—marking the birth of Informal Art and Tachism in Germany, his career took a radical turn in the late 1960s.
Unlike his peers, who continued along the path of gestural and chaotic brushwork, Kreutz became obsessed with Goethe’s color theory and mathematical order. It was in this transition toward Concrete Art and Geometric Abstraction that he began to experiment with formal purity and hard-edge, occasionally adopting the pseudonym James Craig to differentiate his systematic chromatic research and his graphic work production from his earlier painting.
In this constructive phase, Kreutz’s work (or works under his James Craig identity) directly connects with the great masters of European Concrete Art. His use of the grid as a backbone and the pursuit of compositions where color is the sole protagonist place him in the wake of Swiss artist Max Bill and pioneer Richard Paul Lohse, who defended a logical, systematic art free from any emotional subjectivity.
Moreover, the play of positive and negative contrasts, and the optical interaction of pure geometric forms in his silkscreens—such as squares and contrasts of flat color—dialogue closely with the structures of Josef Albers and his studies on color interaction, as well as with the visual vibration and dynamism characteristic of Victor Vasarely’s Op Art.
Through silkscreen printing, a medium that allowed him to completely erase the brushstroke to achieve perfectly homogeneous chromatic surfaces, Kreutz became a unique bridge in the German graphic-arts collecting scene, evolving from informal automatism to the more disciplined rigor of mathematical geometry.