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Construction Black and White
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Wiemken was encouraged by his artist friend Walter Bodmer to create non-figurative works. Between 1936 and 1937, "Konstruktionen" were created with predominantly organic lines, exclusively in the colors black, white, and blue. For Wiemken, the primary importance lay in the execution of a movement sequence; the linear compositional method had a lasting effect on the works created subsequently. According to Georg Schmidt (in Hanhart 1979, p.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineKonstruktion schwarz-weiss. 1936. Walter Kurt Wiemken (1907–1941). Kunstmuseum Basel, Depositum der Freunde des Kunstmuseums Basel. Public domain.
