Erwin Bechtold

ERWIN BECHTOLD (Cologne, Germany, 1925).
Untitled. 1975
Mixed media (pastel and charcoal) on paper.
Signed and dated in the lower margin.
Measurements: 44 x 34 cm; 53 x 42,5 cm (frame).
German painter settled in Ibiza, Bechtold made his individual debut in 1950. He participated in the first Salón de Mayo of Barcelona in 1957, he was related to the groups Dau al Set and El Paso, and belonged to SYN. He has exhibited regularly in Barcelona since 1960. In 1962, Bechtold was elected member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund; in 1983, of the Akademie der Künste in Mannheim and, in 1990, he was awarded the honorary title of Professor of the Land Baden-Württemberg. In Ibiza he has been awarded the Premi Illes Pitiuses (2005) and the Premi Ramon Llull de las Illes Balears (2006). In 2005, the Barcelona Gallery dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him on the occasion of his eightieth anniversary, and three years later a monographic exhibition dedicated to his work was held at the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza in Huesca. He is represented at the Tate Gallery in London, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York and the Reina Sofía in Madrid, among other centers and institutions around the world.