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Reinhold Keuler's Experiment

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Reinhold Koehler, born in 1919 in Dortmund and died in 1970 in Siegen, was a German painter, printmaker, poet, and essayist, arguably one of the most interesting of the recently re-discovered artists. Self-taught as an artist, Koehler began to immerse himself in fine arts during the time of World War II, when he served as a soldier on the Eastern Front. There he executed his first watercolours, a technique which remained his favorite in the first period of his artistic activity, with nature, landscape and female nude as his leading subjects. Nevertheless, with the beginning of the new decade, Koehler began to experiment, boldly osciliating between techniques. Consequently, turning to abstraction, in 1954, the artist started to incorporate sand

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