Karl Peter Röhl
Untitled (Rhythmic-linear composition in black and red) - Ohne Titel (Rhythmisch-lineare Komposition in Schwarz und Rot)
Artist
Karl Peter Röhl
1890 - Kiel - 1975
Further information
Wir danken dem Nachlass Karl Peter Röhl für die Hilfe bei der Katalogisierung dieses Werkes.
Provenance
Artist’s estate;
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Switzerland.
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Description
• Free, associative formal language and intense colour
• Created during the founding phase of the Bauhaus, still strongly influenced by Expressionism
• A counterpoint to the later constructivist-geometric works in his oeuvre
Before Karl Peter Röhl joined the Weimar Bauhaus in 1919, he could already look back on many years of intensive artistic work: Among other things, following an apprenticeship as a painter, he trained at the Municipal School of Crafts and Applied Arts in Kiel, the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin.
The work presented here was created during Röhl’s Bauhaus years and, with its vivid colours and free, associative visual language, is rooted in Expressionism, thus standing in contrast to the strictly geometric works in Röhl’s oeuvre of the 1920s.
• Created during the founding phase of the Bauhaus, still strongly influenced by Expressionism
• A counterpoint to the later constructivist-geometric works in his oeuvre
Before Karl Peter Röhl joined the Weimar Bauhaus in 1919, he could already look back on many years of intensive artistic work: Among other things, following an apprenticeship as a painter, he trained at the Municipal School of Crafts and Applied Arts in Kiel, the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin.
The work presented here was created during Röhl’s Bauhaus years and, with its vivid colours and free, associative visual language, is rooted in Expressionism, thus standing in contrast to the strictly geometric works in Röhl’s oeuvre of the 1920s.