About The Artist:
Karl Fred Dahmen
As a painter and object artist, Dahmen was one of the most important representatives of Informel, and was therefore counted among the most important artists of the German postwar period. Dahmen studied art initially at the art school in Aachen (1931-1933) and then at the Academy of Munich. The artist’s early work includes tachistic oriented pictures as well as wood collages. After an apprenticeship as a commercial artist, he became a...
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About The Medium:
Aquatint
An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.