Purple Poppy

Oil on canvas, 1960

Technique: Öl-Blumen
Size: 54 x 65

CID: 151008
Collection: Dorsten JT

Frame Passepartout FP signed BP signed dated titled

Issued among others: Friedrichshafen - 1961 Stuttgart - 1962 Munich - Kunstverein - 1963 Lindau - Haus am Cavatzen - 1964 Isny - 1965 Friedrichshafen: retroperspective 1971 Metzingen - 1976

According to handwritten notes on the back

Poppy - remedy and poison

The artist is limited in the painting of flowers and fruit sticks of the poppy. It's not about the beauty of the plant, but their effect.

The healing or destructive force of opium is their theme.

They also stretched their color palette of ocher of happiness over the purple of the imagination to the blue of intoxication.

The diversity of the exploding feeling is embedded in the Rationaltät - expressed in the geometric rectangles. Rationality as a means to use the power of opium useful.

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