Walter Dahn

We are pleased to announce the sixth individual exhibition by Walter Dahn. His collaboration with Gallery Elisabeth Kaufmann started in 1987 with an exhibition of large-sized paintings and has since been continued. After shows that included paintings, photographs, objects, installations and unique silk screens on glass and fabric, Dahn is now again exhibiting paintings that this time are different. 99 very small-sized, mixed-media pictures depict an intimate and unpretentious pictorial evolution process and demonstrate at the same time how designated forms fall back into colours and lines.

Walter Dahn was born in 1954 in St. Tönis/Krefeld (Germany). From 1971 to 1979 he studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf, being the last master scholar of Joseph Beuys. During the 80’s, he gained an international reputation as one of the leading painters of the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit. In 2003/2004 his works were shown at the exhibition ”Obsessive Malerei – Ein Rückblick auf die Neuen Wilden” in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1995, Walter Dahn was nominated professor of fine arts at the University of Art in Braunschweig, Germany. He lives and works in Cologne.

Elementarskulptur, 2006. 10,3 x 8,3cm     Milchflasche mit Rotwein, 2004

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