Kurt Kranz (born 1910)

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Kurt Kranz (born 1910)

Suite: Schwarz: Weiss
Weiss: Schwarz

signed and dated September - Oktober 1927, Kurt Kranz and inscribed with title Schwarz:Weiss on the title page, pen and black ink heightened with white on paper, 40 drawings in a paper binding
14 x 10.5 cm size of a page
19 x 15 cm binding size
220 cm total

Executed circa 1927-1929

出版

H.T. Fleming, Kurt Kranz, Variationen über ein geometrischen Thema, München, 1956, p. 93, p. 94-95 (ill.)
Hans Richter, Werner Haftmann, Werner Hofmann, Early Form Sequences 1927-1932, by Kurt Kranz, Frühe Form-Reihen 1927-1932, Hamburg 1975, p. 37, p. 84 (ill.)
Dietrich Helms, Kurt Kranz, Hamburg 1970, p. 7, p. 8-9 (ill.)
Werner Hofmann (ed.), Kurt Kranz, Das unendliche Bild, Hamburg 1990, p. 10-11, p. 17-19 (ill.)

展覽

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Kurt Kranz 1960, 3 September - 9 October 1960, (ill)
Washington, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, (circulation exhibition organised by the Smithsonian Institute), 1973, no. 2 (ill.)
New York, Cultural Center,Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today,1973,no. 2
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1974, no. 2 (ill.)
New Orleans,Museum of Art,Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today,1974,no. 2
Cambridge, (Mass.), Hayden Gallery of Art, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1974, no.2
Logan, Dan, G. Hansen, Memorial Museum, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1974, no.2
F. Wayne, Museum of Art,Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1974, no. 2
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1975, no. 2 (ill.)
Milwaukee, Art Center, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1975, no. 2 (ill.)
Chicago, Art Institute, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1975, no. 2 (ill.)
Champaign, Krannet Art Museum, Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and today, 1975, no. 2 (ill.)
Trier, Museum Simeonstift, Werner Graeff - Kurt Kranz, Zwei Künstler aus dem Bauhaus, January - 23 February 1986, no. 20, p. 52 (ill.no. 61)

拍品專文

Kranz's first conception of a picture sequence was at the age of seventeen. It had been envisaged for an abstract film. Kandinsky, taking an interest in this project in 1931, put Kranz in touch with a publisher. The project had to be abandoned, though, due to the increasing political instability of the period.
Kranz used the formula .????. to describe this picture sequence. In 1928, immediately after the completion of the "Zwanzig Bilder aus dem Leben einer Komposition" (see lot), he started these drawings. In the middle of this year the sheets were bound by his school mate, W. Bergmann, and Kranz worked on the book until January 1929.
The film that was made, based on the drawing sequences, was done by Robert Darroll in 1972. The film takes 12 minutes.

See illustration of 2 sequences, page 111