995 - Karl-Peter Müller, "Afrikanische Frauen", five abstracted women on blue ground, 1995

Karl-Peter Müller, "Afrikanische Frauen", five abstracted women on blue ground, 1995 (1935 Mannheim-Käfertal – 2000 Kandel), mixed media on painting board, signed and dated (19)95 lower right, abstracted composition, on a strong blue ground five slender, upright standing women side by side in ochre, orange and red, with red and light blue contour lines, inner drawing with zigzag and rectangle motifs, good condition commensurate with age, image 64x98 cm (HxW), framed, white wooden frame, frame width 3.5 cm The Mannheim artist Karl-Peter Müller, KPM for short, worked as a painter, graphic artist, glass artist and ceramicist and also made a name as the author of several books and a volume of poetry as well as with record releases. After studying at the Munich Academy under Franz Xaver Fuhr from 1954 and attending the Salzburg Summer Academy under Emilio Vedova in 1965, he was awarded the City of Salzburg Prize for free painting in 1966. He kept studios in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, in Altea in Spain and from 1992 on Malta and Gozo; he died in Kandel in the Palatinate in 2000. His artistic work is preserved by the association Akademische Werkstätten e.V., which he founded himself and which has awarded the KPM Karl Peter Muller Prize since 2022. Abstract art, also called non-representational art, emerged at the beginning of the 20th century and relies on the effect of colour and form; after 1945 expressive movements such as Tachisme and Art Informel developed from it.