Bidspirit auction | Bernhard Johannes Blume

Bernhard Johannes Blume - Bernhard Johannes Blume 1937 Dortmund - 2011 Cologne - ”For Kant's sake” - (1981) 2 xerographs/paper. Grease pencil drawing ”Still life” and Polaroid. Each 30 x 21 cm. Both signed and dated with pencil: Blume 81. Verso labeled with pencil: 223C3 (Griffelkunst). The sheets are loose. Slightly browned. Blume worked as a photographer, painter, draftsman, and performance artist and helped give new impetus to Dadaism. In his works, he intensively engaged with the philosophical ideas of Immanuel Kant. He gained great recognition primarily through his long-standing artistic collaboration with his wife Anna, with whom he developed numerous photographic stagings.