HÖDICKE, KARL HORST
1938 Nuremberg - 2024 Berlin

Title: Passage V.
Date: 1964.
Technique: Oil on untreated cotton.
Measurement: 150 x 160cm.
Notation: Signed twice verso upper right: Hödicke KH Hödicke.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta 1989-1990 (label)

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Art in Berlin 1815-1989, High Museum of Art, Seattle 1990, cat. no. 70, p. 175, ill.

- Considered an important pioneer of the 'New Figuration'
- Early major work from one of his most important series of works, the 'Passages'
- The city of Berlin occupies a decisive place in Hödicke's oeuvre
- Ties in directly with the criticism of consumerism in American Pop Art.