457 - Walter Stöhrer, ‘Mara’ and an informal composition, colour lithograph and etching, signed

Walter Stöhrer, ‘Mara’ and an informal composition, colour lithograph and etching, signed Walter Stöhrer, 1937 Stuttgart - 2000 Taarstedt, German painter and printmaker, here: Mara, colour lithograph, 52 x 71.5 cm, sheet 60 x 82 cm, signed and numbered 41/150, slight crease on the left-hand margin; Informal Composition (Horror Trip), etching, 45.5 x 43 cm, sheet 74.5 x 54 cm, signed, dated (19)70 and numbered 20/100, unframed About the artist: Stöhrer studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Art between 1956 and 1959. After two semesters in Hans Gaensslen’s commercial art class, he transferred to HAP Grieshaber’s fine art class. Stöhrer lived in Berlin from 1959 onwards. He became a member of the German Artists’ Association, participating in its annual exhibitions in 1964 (in Berlin) and 1971 (in Stuttgart). Following a four-semester stint as a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, he was appointed to a full professorship in 1986. Even whilst still a student, he was one of the leading artists of the New Figuration movement in Germany. In the years that followed, he continued to develop his mostly large-format paintings, uninfluenced by Pop Art, Minimal Art or Conceptual Art, whilst engaging with the free painterly gesture of Abstract Expressionism.