Lot number 61 - Ernst LEN (1946)

Watercolor - Ernst LEN (1946 Vienna - 2025 Berlin)

'Untitled', signed, dated 1986, pencil/watercolor on paper, image dimensions approx. 40 x 30 cm, framed, overall dimensions approx. 61 x 52 cm, provenance: private collection, Bavarian Forest, cf. literature. 1969 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, 1975 - 1979 conceptual work with his own body, photography, video, drawing, performance with the declared intention of reinventing painting, based on the insights of concept, process, media art and bodily experience, 1977 Ernst Koref Prize, 1978 Hunger Trial 'Mattmark' Switzerland (self-photography with automatic cameras, serial research drawings), 1979 Trial under Plastic, Vienna, video, photography, drawings. Sandfall, Brittany (Polaroid photography, drawings), 1980–1983. Oil monotype series (painting as an imprint of lived reality). Lecturer in painting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, 1982. Exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Minorites, Graz, 1984. Homocaputmortuum and Camuna Book (major works of reconstructive painting of existential origin), 1981. Ernst Koref Prize. State scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts, Vienna, 1982. Carnevale di Venezia (performance, photography, drawing, painting). Vale-Carnevale series (oil paintings on canvas), 1983 further stay in Venice, continuation of the Vale-Carnevale cycle with mixed-media drawings on handmade paper, 1985 La puttana errante, Wiener Nachtstücke, Randschmerz, Lebenszeichen, Proëlla, Das Andere Tier (border crossings between painting and drawing, chaos and order), 1985 exhibition at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, 1986 Proëlla II (Das Nichts, das Chaos, die Ordnung, die Form), garden drawings, Casa rasa, pictures for an abandoned room, 1986 Advancement Award of the Salzburg State Government, 1987 The Siberian Journey, since 1989 as EVA (artist group EVA & ADELE) in Berlin
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