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Fragments of Color: Georg Stahl |
Born in 1903 in Kassel, Germany, Georg Stahl was a victim of Hitler’s “cultural
purification” politics. He immigrated to the Netherlands in 1930 as politically
"undesirable" and artistically "entartet" ( degenerated). His post-World War II
paintings may be described as abstract expressionist or informal, rooted in
landscape and figure and influenced by the Ecole de Paris. Some of the work
groups in this exhibition date from the late 1950s to the mid-Sixties and may be
characterized as complex yet dynamic compositions which, although introverted in
character, reveal Stahl’s development from, according to one critic, “a
monologue interieur [to] a monologue monumental.” |
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| Untitled, 1957, Caseine-tempera, 36 x 49 in. |
Composition, 1959-60, Oil on paper, 32 x 22 in. |
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| Red Intensity in the Back Ground, 1961, Oil on masonite, 48 x 71 in. | Untitled, 1961, Oil on masonite, 49 x 64 in. |