Wegwitz, Olaf (1949 Schönebeck - active in Huy- Neinstedt/Harz)

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Artist's book from the series REFLEXIONS (Vol. IX) with texts and original graphics throughout by the artist, Galerie Oben Chemnitz 1993, ed. by Jens Henkel, edition of 130 copies, the present volume bears the number 71, signed and dated (19)93 in lead by the artist in the imprint, format approx. 21 x 22 cm. "From 1985 onwards, two editions stand out from the abundance of prints. These are the multivalent series 24 x 34 sheets on literature and graphics by the Leipzig group of the Pirckheimer Society, directed by Herbert Kästner, and those by Jens Henkel and Gunar Barthel in the gallery above Karl-Marx-Stadt (from 1990 in the Burgart-Presse Rudolstadt) published artist book series reflections." (Lothar Lang in: Painting and graphics in East Germany, Leipzig 2002), after an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1974/75 private art lessons with Hans Schulze in Leipzig, from 1975 working as a freelance graphic artist and painter, 1984 co-initiator of the 1st Leipzig Autumn Salon, from 1990 intensive discussion with the relationship between nature and culture