"Gray and Blue: the original 1974 title"

(1935 Halle/Saale – 2016 Niebüll) "Gray and Blue." Original title from 1974. This composition, created in 1974, consists of two vertically parallel stripes on a white-gray background. By limiting himself to straight, equally wide lines or stripes on monochromatic backgrounds, Brandt belongs to the most renowned, radical, and ascetic artists of Concrete Art. From 1955 to 1961, Brandt studied at the Berlin University of the Arts under Ernst Schumacher. His encounter with young American painting, especially with Barnett Newman, had a significant influence on his work, which he also experienced firsthand during a scholarship in New York in 1975/76. From 1982 to 2001, Brandt was a professor of textile design at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 1995, he received the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting. Brandt's works can be found in many German museums. Oil on canvas; signed and dated (1974) on the reverse, annotated and titled on an old label. 60 cm x 100 cm. Framed or in a studio frame.