Mauern brechen (breaking walls)
Conrad Westpfahl
Painting - 44.2 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.4 x 22 x 0 inch
$9,191
Painting - 44.2 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.4 x 22 x 0 inch
$9,191
1891 born in Berlin on November 23
1907-11 studies with Emil Orlik
from 1910 in master class for graphics
1911-12 Studies at the Academy of Art in Munich with Habermann
1913-14 Attends the Ranson Academy in Paris with Félix Valloton
1914-18 military service as battery commander and aviator
1918-21 Resides in Berlin
1921 Master studio at the Dresden Academy of Art
1925-26 First trip to Italy, exhibitions of the Berlin Secession
1927 First solo exhibition at the Goltz Gallery in Munich
1928 Interest in abstract art
1930-33 Stay in Paris, encounter with Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso, acquaintance with Georges Braque and Fernand Léger
1932 First abstract collages
1933 Return to Berlin
1934-39 Closure of an exhibition in Stuttgart by the National Socialists
1936 Prohibition to work, emigration to Greece
1937-39 Exhibitions in Athens
1939-40 forced return to Germany, painting ban, studio in Pöcking near Munich, secret portrait commissions
from 1944 friendship with Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1946 Begins his publications on art
1947-49 Participation in the Augsburg exhibition "Extreme Malerei", exhibitions at the Günther Franke Gallery in Munich
1950 Friendship with Winter, Gilles and Vedova, participation in the "1st Darmstadt Talk", move to Munich
1951-52 First exhibition of purely abstract works at Kunstverein Munich
1953 Solo exhibition Museum Witten, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, participation in the Biennale in Sao Paulo
1955-57 Participation in the exhibitions of the group ZEN 49 as a guest
1958 Participation in the Marzotto Prize exhibition in Milan, Munich and Paris
1960-71 Moves to Birnfeld Castle near Stadtlauringen in Lower Franconia
1961 Solo exhibition at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich
1961-62 Guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome, first solo exhibition in Paris, guest of honor at the Villa Romana in Florence
1963 Water Lily Award of the City of Munich
1972 Beginning of the album paintings
1976 three-month stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome
1976 Westpfahl dies on 23 July in Wetzhausen
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