Oil/canvas, in the steelworks, view of the workshop of an ironworks with workers guiding the red-hot steel, marked HBALUSCHEK lower right, framing renewed, approx. 96 x 130 cm, with framing approx. 112 x 145 cm, rest., probably additions below left, around 1910, a copy of the handwritten expertise by Dr. Günter Meißner (dated July 13, 1989), compare also Hans Baluschek's paintings from 1915 (copper foundry) and 1910 (iron rolling mill/Hahnsche works), provenance: private collection, formerly auctioned in Cologne in 1970, Baluschek is considered the main representative of German critical realism, in his art he portrayed the life of the proletariat accusingly