Henri Ernst Pfeiffer

HENRI ERNST PFEIFFER (Kassel, 1907 - Maisons-Laffitte, 1994).
"Composition", 1952.
Mixed media on laid paper.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 62,5 x 74,5 cm.

Abstract composition of great chromatic subtlety, built through glazes, transparencies and large areas of diluted color. The work is articulated from a warm dominant of ochre and orange, crossed by bluish and grayish registers that generate a suspended, almost evanescent atmosphere.

Pfeiffer works here the surface as a field of resonances, where the forms do not impose themselves in a resounding way, but appear as traces, stains and barely insinuated structures.

The piece reflects the artist's interest in the relationship between form, color and perception, aspects that he developed since his contact with the Bauhaus environment and the research of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In this work, abstraction acquires a poetic and experimental character, closer to the vibration of matter and light than to strict geometry.