RUTH WOLF REHFELDT ANTIQUE MODERN ABSTRACT CHARCOAL PAINTING OLD VINTAGE 1966

Description: AMAZING VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT CHARCOAL DRAWING BY ESTEEMED GERMAN PAINTER RUTH WOLF REHFELDT. (German b.1932). THIS WORK DEPICTS A CAPTIVATING ABSTRACT COMPOSITION BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED WITH BLACK, BLUE AND WHITE CONTRASTING ELEMENTS. SIMPLY AMAZING. SIGNED AND DATED 1966 BY RUTH WOLF. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS: 29”H x 23”W Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932, Wurzen) is an artist most known for her work in visual poetry and mail art. Ruth WOLF-REHFELDT was a key figure in the Mail Art movement, where women were rare. She would send her creations to her international contacts in the Mail Art networks and invited them to intervene with the works and return them: “Mail Art was a kind of safety valve, and, too, a certain satisfaction." she has stated. "I was never able to travel, but I was glad that I had contact throughout the world that all the others who were allowed to travel sometimes didn’t have.” Among the others, she established a correspondence with Paulo BRUSCKY, with whom she exchanged works incessantly in the 1970s and 1980s, creating a connection between dictatorship-era Brazil and East Germany. Mail Art was also an antidote to the cultural isolation of the Cold War, as correspondence was less easy to control than exhibitions. However, it was routinely monitored by the government. She refers to her visual poetry, written on a typewriter, as "typewritings." Wolf-Rehfeldt often sent her works for various collaborations with artists worldwide. She started her art practice in the 1970s, self-taught and employed as a typist. She shows interest in semiotics and concrete poetry in these studies of signs and combinations of letters, symbols, and visual forms. The format and type of works, often sent as mail art, allowed her to communicate, exchange ideas, and exhibit in both the East and the West, as well as the Non-aligned countries. Born in East Germany, she moved to Berlin in 1950. Her husband is the artist Robert Rehfeldt. They had a studio on Mendelstraße, in East Berlin’s Pankow, which became a meeting place for the local and international art community. Their network of contacts includes György Galántai and Endre Tót in Hungary; Milan Knižak and Jiří Valoch in Czechoslovakia; Pawel Petasz, Waclaw Ropiecki and Tomasz Schulz in Poland; Andrej Tišma, Dobrica Kamperelić and Nenad Bogdanović in Yugoslavia.* She stopped her artistic practice in 1989, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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