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Black Forms in Color Space #13
Black Forms in Color Space #13
Black Forms in Color Space #13, 1947
John Sennhauser
Oil on canvas
41 x 27 inches
Framed: 47 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower left
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artist

Sennhauser was born in Switzerland but raised in Italy where he studied for two years at the Royal Academy in Venice before immigrating to the United States in 1928. In New York he studied at the Cooper Union School from 1930 to 1933. He was a teacher at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School and Contemporary School of Art in New York before taking a job at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1943. It was around this time that his paintings began to lean towards abstraction and away from the more representational urban street scenes of his early career.  After two years at the Guggenheim he left and began work in art restoration and became increasingly active in such organizations as American Abstract Artists and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Like many of the Abstract Expressionist painters of his time Sennhauser eventually returned to more figurative works in the 1960's. These works were more fluid than the strong geometrical feel of his works from the late 1930's through 1950's.

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John Sennhauser often worked through a singular concept in a series of paintings. In 1947 he produced his Color Space series of which this particular example is the 13th work. The Struve Gallery retrospective catalogue (1988) states that in this series “Sennhauser had realized his most personal means of expression…[and] pursued radical new territory in his work.” As exemplified in Black Forms in Color Space #13, these paintings are crisp in line, color and execution while both the positive and negative play equal roles. In 1943 he once explained his style as “lines, planes, forms, colors, rhythmically moving…intuitively conceived…intuitively born of life eternal. Plastic integration of form and space of body and spirit…the everlasting negative in all its positive manifestations, pure as immortality, free as the infinite…the essence of all that is and is not…”

provenance

The Artists’ Gallery, New York, NY

Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, SG #2819

Parkerson Gallery, Houston, TX

exhibitions

Artists’ Gallery, New York, NY 1947 (solo)

Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, “John Sennhauser Retrospective:  1937-1950”, 1988.

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