2025 - Rolf Diener (1906, Größnitz – 1988, Hamburg)

Rolf Diener (1906, Größnitz – 1988, Hamburg) Composition of Forms and Signs An abstract, non-representational work created around 1960 during Diener’s early creative period, which draws on the work of Classical Modernist artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He attended the Landeskunstschule Hamburg from 1927 to 1931, where he studied under Arthur Illies. However, his actual artistic career did not begin until after 1945, specifically after he resumed his studies from 1948 to 1951 under Arnold Fiedler at the Baukreis in Hamburg. He created abstract compositions inspired by early 20th-century modernism, which he was able to present extensively in a solo exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1957; he also received individual commissions for art in architecture. Later, Diener increasingly turned to figurative works. Oil on masonite; signed and monogrammed; 35 cm x 46.5 cm. Framed. Oil on masonite. Monogrammed.