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Artists from A-Z René Acht

1920–1998
  • Hommage à Odilon Redon (1956)
    Hommage à Odilon Redon
    Artist: René Acht Dating: 1956 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 81 x 65 cm Acces / purchase date: 1957 Inventory number: 0009 Copyright: © René Acht, ProLitteris, Zürich; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
René Acht's work defies clear stylistic categorization; rather, it unfolds within a complex interplay of geometric-rational and abstract-expressive currents. Formal aesthetic processes are inextricably linked to existential questions. Breaking with stylistic conventions, the body of work, spanning some four decades, undergoes changing phases of transformation, blossoming into a rich diversity of formal expressions, nuanced and varied in myriad ways.

Elisabeth Grossmann: «René Acht». In: SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz, 2022.

Further works by René Acht in the Baloise art collection:

Inv. no. 0010, Schwarze Scheibe, 1958, Oil on canvas, 120 x 110 cm

Inv. no. 0011, Lebensbaum, 1960, Oil on canvas, 145 x 114 cm