On February 26, 2024, the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt died in Berlin at the age of 92. Wolf-Rehfeldt’s work dealt with the areas of visual poetry, typewriting and mail art. The Berlin gallery ChertLüdde published this obituary for the artist and contemporary witness.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt was an extraordinary artist. From drawing to painting to concrete poetry, Ruth left a huge intellectual legacy with much yet to be discovered. She was at the center of enormous changes and she managed to encapsulate and convey to us their deepest meanings.
In her 92 years of life, she lived in four different Germanys, witnessing life become history. At a time when freedom of artistic expression was not possible, she and her fellow mail artists overturned the …
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Image above: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt in her atelier in Mendelstraße, Berlin, early 70s