Max Mahlmann (1912-2000): Z1-4 (1966)

Artist
Max Mahlmann
 
Title
Z1-4
 
Medium
Tempera over pencil on cardboard
 
Material 
Cardboard
 
Dimensions
38 x 38 cm
 
Year
1966
 
Signature
Signed, dated and titled in pencil on the back, including artist stamp
 
Provenance
German Auction house
Private Collection, Basel
 
Condition / Restauration 
signs of use
 
Biography: 
Max Herrmann Mahlmann (born April 4, 1912 in Hamburg, † 2000) was a German Constructivist painter. Mahlmann studied from 1934 to 1938 as a student of Richard Müller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and initially worked as a stage painter and commercial artist. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Russian campaign. Mahlmann - heavily influenced by Wassili Kandinsky and Josef Albers - turned to non-objective painting after 1945 and concentrated on geometric-constructivist compositions.