Adam's The Oliver Dowling Collection 11th September 2024

57 92 PETER KALKHOF (1933 - 2014) Space and Colour, Horizon Blue and Green Acrylic on canvas, 37 x 37cm Signed, inscribed and dated 1973 verso Provenance: Annely Juda Gallery, label verso € 800 - 1,200 Born in 1933 in Germany, Peter Kalkhof studied painting at the School of Arts and Crafts, Braunschweig and the Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart followed by time spent in London at the Slade School of Art and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 1960’s. In 1963 he settled in London and from 1964 (through to 1999) he taught Fine Art at Reading University. Kalkhof was an important pioneer and co-initiator, as well as a proponent, of the dominant art movements in the 1970s which are variously known as Concrete Art, OP Art, New Geometry, Hard Edge or Post-Painterly Abstraction. In the middle of the 1960s Peter Kalkhof developed the principle of Colour & Space, the basis of his artistic life’s work. He was deeply influenced by the transcendental abstractions of artists like Malevich, Kandinsky and Rothko. His artworks are described by his friend and colleague, art historian Roger Cook, as: ‘Numinous evocations of light and colour addressed to a world after the death of God in which profane space recovers it’s sacred origin; images which renew man’s ancient experience of ‘sacred space’.’ (1977) Kalkhof is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art in London.