[Translate to English:] Tendenz
The reductive printing technique enabled him to produce strongly simplified flat forms which can also evoke suggestive color resonances. The ideas of the Blue Rider and Kandinsky’s concept of an art that is freed from the limitations of mimesis, following only an “inner necessity,” were developed in dialogue with Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc. The search for formal simplification and abstraction were major concerns of the artistic avantgarde as shown by a small selection of modernist works.
