Hann Trier
Lokaltermin I
/ Local date I, 1962
Oil on canvas
33 × 41,5 cm
monogrammed and dated lower right: Trier 62
(TRIERH/M 50)
€ 13.000
Provenance: Private collection Southern Germany (acquired directly from the artist).
Literature: Sabine Fehlemann (ed.). Hann Trier. Monograph and catalog raisonné by Ute Gerlach-Laxner, Cologne, 1990, no. 386, ill. there confused with ill. no. 38
In 1962 and 1963, titles from the legal language increasingly appear in Hann Trier's work. This may have been due to the fact that his student at the time, Georg Baselitz, was involved in a pornography trial, and Trier thus came to the realization that art must answer to the vocabulary of the legal profession in serious cases. At this time, he created paintings with legal and thoroughly ironic titles such as "Tatverdacht," "Lokaltermin," "Tatort," "Corpus delicti," or "Indizienkette.