HANSEN-BAHIA, Karl-Heinz(1915 Hamburg – 1978 São Paulo)

Genre scene from South America

Woodcut. Monogrammed "KH" in the upper left corner; stamped on the reverse with "Kunsthandlung Nettels, Münster."

54.5 x 43 cm. 57 x 46 cm.

Surface with scratches; minor wear on the edges.

Actually Karl-Heinz Hansen, German painter and woodcut artist, teacher of woodcut in Tittmoning. “So if Hansen-Bahia’s formal language seems ‘brutal,’ this corresponds to the first law—that the subject matter brings the form with it—and to the other—that the form must devour the subject matter. But this material is monstrous, and the form is like a giant serpent after a feast, marked by what it has devoured." (Steffen Andres on Hansen-Bahia, http://www.hansen-bahia.de/).