Tübke, Werner (1929 Schönebeck/Elbe - 2004 Leipzig)

Lot 9545 limit € 260

Etching, Ash Wednesday on the Beach (1973), signed in lead under the print, rs. as a document Prof. Tüpke/Leipzig (sic) inscribed, slight signs of age (min. foxing, min. soiled, edges trimmed), image approx. 16.5 x 40.5 cm, sheet approx. 24.5 x 47 cm, 1935-45 private drawing lessons with Karl Friedrich in Magdeburg, 1948/49 painting studies at the HGB Leipzig, 1950-52 studies in art education and psychology at the University of Greifswald, 1955-57 assistant at the HGB, 1961/62 study visit to the Soviet Union, ab 1962 senior assistant, from 1964 lecturer at the HGB, 1972 professor and 1973-76 rector, 1971 first trip to Italy, 1976-87 work on the panorama painting on the German Peasants' War in Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia, 1977 participation in documenta 6 in Kassel, alongside Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer one of the most important artists in the GDR, representative of the Leipzig School