‘Intérieur international: I’ Robert Michel

• A focused composition by Michel, renowned for his precision • Executed in mixed media, the artist masterfully utilises the various aspects of the creative process • From the estate of the artist couple Ella Bergmann-Michel and Robert Michel Robert Michel initially studied mechanical engineering and worked as a test pilot. Following a crash in which he sustained serious injuries, he turned to art in 1917 and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar. It was here that he met his future wife, Ella Bergmann, with whom he would collaborate throughout his life. The couple worked for a short time at the newly founded Bauhaus, but soon settled at the ‘Schmelz’ in the Taunus, an old paint mill in Michel’s birthplace, which he later named the ‘Heimatmuseum of Modern Art’. Influenced by Italian Futurism, Robert Michel’s artistic oeuvre is characterised by the formal language of modern technology. Alongside Kurt Schwitters, Willi Baumeister and László Moholy-Nagy, he was one of the key figures of the avant-garde; from 1925 onwards, he was involved in the social reform movement known as ‘New Frankfurt’, and in 1928 he became a founding member of the ‘Ring of New Advertising Designers’. Following the National Socialists’ rise to power in 1933, Michel withdrew from the art world; it was not until the 1960s, by which time he was over 60, that he resumed his artistic activities. Thanks to the exhibition ‘Pioneers of Collage’, shown in Leverkusen in 1963, his work was rediscovered; in 1988, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover honoured Michel’s oeuvre with a comprehensive retrospective. For his compositions, executed with exceptional technical precision, Robert Michel employs the technique of collage, typographic elements and finely sprayed ink, with which he creates subtle colour gradations and atmospheric lighting of the subject. | 1897 Vockenhausen/Taunus - Titisee-Neustadt 1983 | Moderne Kunst | Arbeiten auf Papier | Nummer: 26x2565 | Provenance: Nachlass Bergmann-Michel.

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