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Colorful circular geometric abstract silkscreen by Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg. In this piece Loewensberg contrasts a sharp, angular pattern against a circular composition, creating a delicate balance in the work. Signed, dated, and editioned 36/199 in front lower right corner. Currently hung in a silver metal frame.

Verena Loewensberg (b. 1912 - d. 1986 Zurich, Switzerland) began her studies at the Basel trade school in 1927 where she was introduced to design and color theory, then went on to a weaver apprenticeship as well as training in dance and choreography; the echoes of all these disciplines can be found in her work as an artist. Between 1934 and 1936 Loewensberg visited Paris several times often accompanied by Max Bill, with whom she had a close lifelong friendship and who introduced her to the artists of the group ‘Abstraction-Création‘; Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Theo van Doesburg, as well as Georges Vantongerloo who had a lasting effect on her work. As of 1936 she belonged to the Swiss avant-garde, while after the war she became known as the only female artist of the small circle of the Zurich Concrete, with Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse and Camille Graeser. Although her work is fundamentally constructive in nature, it was also imbued with great freedom, poetry and musicality. Loewensberg worked with visual elements that seem contradictory: her work contains circular shapes, cloud forms, irregular pentagons and sharp and obtuse angles, as well as colors that the strict constructivists who only worked in primary colors would deem unacceptable. Obsessed with visual problems, she solved them with a clear and precise attitude, suppressing any handwritten trace on the canvas. From the sixties onwards, her work is of an independence and autonomy that eludes classification. She created an extensive series of reduced, purely colored compositions that tackle the problem of figure and reason repeatedly, as well as radically reduced, purely linear black and white compositions finding barring at the time of color field painting, conceptual painting and minimalism. In 1992 Loewensberg had a Retrospective at Aargau Art Gallery, Aarau and in 2007 had a large-scale exhibition at House Konstruktiv, Zurich.

H 26.25 in. x W 26.25 in. x D 1.38 in.

H 23.75 in. x W 23.75 in.