ZIMMER, BERND
1948 Planegg/Munich
Title: "Birnbaum".
Date: 1981.
Technique: Dispersion on canvas.
Measurement: 200 x 160cm.
Notation: Titled, signed and dated verso upper right: "Birnbaum" Room '81.
Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar.
Provenance:
- Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart (adhesive label)
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (former permanent loan)
- Private collection Germany
Exhibitions:
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt 1985/86
Literature:
- Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Hessischen Landesmuseums in Darmstadt (ed.): Tiefe Blicke. Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der DDR, Österreich und der Schweiz, Cologne 1985, cat. no. 30, ill.
In the mid-1980s, the work was part of the groundbreaking exhibition and collection presentation 'Deep Views' at the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. It has been on permanent loan there ever since and is now being offered on the auction market for the first time.
Georg Baselitz 
