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

Lot 9057 limit € 100

Etching, Ash Wednesday on the Beach (1973), signed in lead under the print, rs. inscribed as ea., framed behind glass, representation approx. 16.5 x 40.5 cm, with frame approx. 43 x 60 cm, 1935-45 private drawing lessons with Karl Friedrich in Magdeburg, 1948/49 painting studies at the HGB Leipzig, 1950-52 studied art education and psychology at the University of Greifswald, 1955-57 assistant at the HGB, 1961/62 study visit to the Soviet Union, from 1962 senior assistant, from 1964 lecturer at the HGB, 1972 professor and 1973-76 rector, 1971 first Travel to Italy, 1976-87 work on the panorama painting of the German Peasants' War in Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia, 1977 participation in the documenta 6 in Kassel, next to Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer one of the most important artists in the GDR, representative of the Leipzig School