Altenbourg, Gerhard (1926 Rödichen-Schnepfenthal - 1989 near Meissen)

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Chinese ink over test print/cardboard, titled: "Der Mond geht unter die Wiese", WVZ No. 6513, signed in lead, titled and dated (19)65, artist's blind stamp, sheet behind glass in passe-partout, section approx. 23 x 31 cm, 1948-50 studied 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 among others : 1966 Burda Prize, Munich, 1967 prize of the 2nd international drawing, 1989 gold medal of the iba Leipzig, his extensive work includes three groups of works: heads, landscapes and self-portraits, the vo The present work is to be assigned to the first