HOEHME, GERHARD1920 Greppin - 1989 DüsseldorfTitle: "Welt hinter dem Bild". Date: 1960/61. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 100 x 80cm. Notation: Signed, titled and dated verso top: G. Hoehme "Welt hinter dem Bild" 1960/61 Sig.: G. Höhme. Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Provenance:- Private collection North Rhine-WestphaliaExhibitions:- Nassauischer Kunstverein, Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden 1961, cat. no. 9Literature:- Hoehme, Margarete: Gerhard Hoehme - Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, cat. rais. no. 60-17, no ill.- Impressive early work of the important and pioneering representative of the German Informel- From being privately owned for many years now for the first time offered on the international art market again- Painted in 1960 during his stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome, where he met Cy Twombly, who had a lasting influence on him- The use of the script-like signs already foreshadows the important series of works of the famous "Briefbilder".