![]() ![]() In 1911 he played a decisive role in the creation of the Der Blaue Reiter group, a Munich-based avant-garde group that generated a framework of exhibitions and publications involving new painting under his and Franz Marc’s leadership. His contact with the panorama in Germany dated back to the final years of the 19th Century, when after having resigned from his activity as a lawyer in Moscow, he relocated in Munich in order to dedicate himself to painting. Vassily Kandinsky produced Kreis (mit Braun) (Circle (with Brown)) at the Bauhaus in Dessau during his stay there as a professor. Alberto G.Commentary on Kreis, Circle with brown (Kreis (Mit bruan)) While her work is reminiscent of her personal inspirations such as Paul Klee, Kenneth Kemble, and Joan Miró, Ides Kihlen remains an artist of autonomy, projecting her own poetic, internal rhythms, and perceptions in her work. She uses an array of materials for her collages such as acrylics, cuttings and thread, then works with her hands, brushes, or rags to create rich and intriguing textures and layers of materials. The process of creating and painting is of significance to Kihlen's practice, which many consider is why she never sought to follow the trends of the global art scene or pursue a career as an artist. Kihlen experimented with themes and styles to "limit the formal aspects of painting in her work" reducing, but not neglecting, the academic eye she was trained to use. Her process towards abstraction, like her own practice, has been lifelong. ![]() Black and white piano keys, musical forms, clefs and staves are common motifs seen throughout her oeuvre. It was also at this time that Kihlen "undertook to conquer lyrical abstraction which envelopes her work and her entire life with festive, playful, spontaneous images." Many of her compositions contain references to her love of music and playing the piano. It was during this time that she switched from painting on canvas to using hardboard to create on. ![]() In the 1980s, Kihlen continued her workshop practices and experimentation in the studio of Adolfo Nigro. María Florencia Galesio, "Homaje a Ides Kihlen," Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,, 2022. Ides Kihlen, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2018, 163. Kihlen explains that during the 1960s "figuration left me as if it were diluting itself." In 1961, Kihlen enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova in Buenos Aires and studied with Kenneth Kemble, one of the key artists of the Informalist movement in Argentina. At the same time, Kihlen attended the studios of Emilio Pettoruti and Juan Batlle Planas in Buenos Aires, as well as André Lhote on a visit to Paris. In Buenos Aires in the mid-twentieth century, artists began to open their studios to art students as a way for them to gain experience and learn technique, in addition to an arts education in the traditional state schools Thus, between 19, Kihlen began to frequent the Buenos Aires studio of the Spanish-born painter Vicente Puig, with whom she studied for over ten years. In 1940, Kihlen married Luis González Monteagudo, with whom she had her two daughters, Silvia and Ingrid. She continued her studies at the school for two more years to earn a higher degree, and simultaneously took piano lessons at the Conservatorio Nacional (National Conservatory). Around 1937, Kihlen completed the five-year course and graduated as Professor of Drawing. Ides was too young to attend his school at that point, but she was finally admitted and began her second year of art studies there when she turned fourteen. About 1931, Kihlen began to study at the Perugino Incorporado school, at the suggestion of esteemed Argentine post-impressionist artist, Pío Collivadino, who was the director of the Escuela Nacional de Arte Decorativo at that time. When the two girls were old enough to attend school, the Kihlens moved to Buenos Aires so that they could attend St. Soon after, the family moved to the Province of Chaco on the banks of the Paraguay River. In 1918, Olga (Titi), Kihlen’s only sister was born. Kihlen was Argentine born and of Swiss decent. ![]() Kihlen was an industrial engineer from Sweden, who moved to Argentina as the president of the Compañia Comercial Noruega-Argentina (The Norwegian-Argentine Trading Company), Mrs. Ides Kihlen was born in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina on July 10, 1917, to Enrique Kihlen and Clelia Brunet. ![]()
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