Altenbourg, Gerhard (1926 Rödichen-Schnepfental - 1989 Meissen)

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Silkscreen after a drawing on handmade paper, exhibition poster "Works from three decades" from October 18th to November 21st, 1981 in the gallery Oben in Karl-Marx-Stadt, slightly creased, sheet approx. 79 x 53 cm, 1948-50 studies at the HSABK in Weimar with Hans Hoffmann-Lederer, he draws his inspiration from events he has experienced himself, such as war experiences and from literature, art and intellectual history from ancient mythology to Pablo Picasso and Johannes Bobrowski, 1952 first solo exhibition at the Springer Gallery in West Berlin, in the GDR he was supported by Bernhard Heisig and Willi Sitte, 1977 participation in the documenta 6 in Kassel, 1970 he became a member of the AdK of the GDR and the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg, prizes including: 1966 Burda Prize, Munich , 1967 prize of the 2nd International of Drawing, 1989 gold medal of the iba Leipzig