As of Nov 15, 2024

Helmut Sturm

Lot 124001073
Volvo, 1965
Oil on canvas

43.3 x 57.1 in (110.0 x 145.0 cm)

Lot 124001073
Volvo, 1965
Oil on canvas
43.3 x 57.1 in (110.0 x 145.0 cm)

Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
Auction: 23 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Dec 15, 2024 03:04 PM
Auction number: 22
Auction name: Online Sale

Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 110 x 145 cm. . [JS].
The Barcode of Life - The Hans Braun Collection More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

• A year before the present work was created, the artists' group SPUR (1957-1965), co-founded by Sturm, exhibited in New York for the first time.
• “Volvo” (1965) - A fascinating testimony to the examination of American Pop Art and Hard-Edge painting.
• In this short phase of his work, Sturm developed a fascinating pictorial language from elements of Pop Art, Op Art and Hard-Edge.
We are grateful to the SPUR e.V. committee in Munich for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
LITERATURE: Pia Dornacher / Bärbel Kleindorfer-Marx (eds.), Helmut Sturm. Works from 1957 to 1999, Cologne 1999, p. 70 (illu.). Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker / Pia Dornacher (eds.), Gruppe SPUR, exhibition catalog, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 2006, p. 182 (illu.) Pia Dornacher, Lydia R. Hartl and Selima Niggl (eds.), Gruppe GEFLECHT, exhibition catalog, Rathhausgalerie Munich / Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt i. d. Oberpflaz, 2007, p. 44 (ill.) Annette Hüsch / Dörte Zbikowski (eds.), Dritte Welle. Die Gruppe SPUR, der Pop und die Politik, exhib. cat. Kiel 2013, p. 226/227 (ill.).
In the artist's possession (until after 1999) Galerie Helmut Leger, Munich (with the stamp on the stretcher). Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg
Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. 110 x 145 cm. . [JS].
The Barcode of Life - The Hans Braun Collection More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

• A year before the present work was created, the artists' group SPUR (1957-1965), co-founded by Sturm, exhibited in New York for the first time.
• “Volvo” (1965) - A fascinating testimony to the examination of American Pop Art and Hard-Edge painting.
• In this short phase of his work, Sturm developed a fascinating pictorial language from elements of Pop Art, Op Art and Hard-Edge.
We are grateful to the SPUR e.V. committee in Munich for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
LITERATURE: Pia Dornacher / Bärbel Kleindorfer-Marx (eds.), Helmut Sturm. Works from 1957 to 1999, Cologne 1999, p. 70 (illu.). Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker / Pia Dornacher (eds.), Gruppe SPUR, exhibition catalog, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 2006, p. 182 (illu.) Pia Dornacher, Lydia R. Hartl and Selima Niggl (eds.), Gruppe GEFLECHT, exhibition catalog, Rathhausgalerie Munich / Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt i. d. Oberpflaz, 2007, p. 44 (ill.) Annette Hüsch / Dörte Zbikowski (eds.), Dritte Welle. Die Gruppe SPUR, der Pop und die Politik, exhib. cat. Kiel 2013, p. 226/227 (ill.).
In the artist's possession (until after 1999) Galerie Helmut Leger, Munich (with the stamp on the stretcher). Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg

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