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Eduard Micus (1925-2000), Mixed Media, Dance of the Squares, 89

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:3,800.00 EUR Estimated At:6,000.00 - 7,500.00 EUR
Eduard Micus (1925-2000), Mixed Media, Dance of the Squares, 89
This is a so-called ‘Coudrage’ by the German artist Eduard Micus from 1989. Micus’ coudrages are painted paper collages on fabric of mural size that he separates in the middle with a seam. While the left half remains empty, the right half is filled with dancing squares. The left half has got a meditative effect on the right half, creating tension-filled works.



The work is signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Micus 89’. It is in good condition, the creased surface is intended. At these creased areas singularly uprising color clods visible with partly slight loss of paint. The work has got slight vertical folding lines. The dimensions are 202 x 242 cm.



Exhibition

The painting was exhibited in 1988 in a retrospective of the work of Eduard Micus at the Kunsthalle Mannheim



Eduard Micus (1925-2000)

Eduard Micus felt attracted to art initially through the Marburg based painter and woodcutter Reinhard Schmidhagen. He met Schmidhagen in the years 1943 and 1944 and Micus decided in 1948 to attend the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. He studied there until 1921 amongst others under Willi Baumeister. He began creating first works of art that were divided by lines. Since 1962, he created his so-called ‘Coudrages’, which he separated in the center with a seam. In 1967, he took part at the Biennale in San Marino together with Gerhard Richter and Günther Uecker. He was a member of the artist group SYN. The artist lived and worked since 1971 in Ibiza. In 2013, two large retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen and in the Villa Wessel honored his oeuvre.
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