Lot 3461 - Z40 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday, 25. June 2016, 02.00 PM
JÖRG IMMENDORFF
(Bleckede 1945 - 2007 Düsseldorf)
Alltag im Café Ost. Gegen Westwährung sofort. 1978.
Oil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Immendorff 78. On the reverse with the archive number: GMW279 426.
29.5 x 21 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Michael Werner.
- Acquired from Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich, by the present owner in 1990.
- Since then private collection Switzerland.
Exhibition: Zurich 1990, Jörg Immendorff. Bilder und Arbeiten auf Papier. Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich, 24 April - 20 June 1990 (with the label on the reverse).
In our second work from Immendorff, “Alltag im Café Ost“ (“Day-to-day Life in the Café East“), Immendorff focused on the socio-political differences between East and West: the partly crumbling state of the buildings and facilities in the East, the GDR-State and the prevailing social mood. On the other hand, the power of capitalism and Western currencies exerted an influence over the people of the ex-GDR. He played with the dream, the prevailing illusion that all problems would be solved with the money of the West. In spite of the far-sighted view with which he observed the German trauma, he managed in his paintings to achieve a balancing act between political criticism and ironic observation, which required a great complexity in its critical reception.
- Galerie Michael Werner.
- Acquired from Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich, by the present owner in 1990.
- Since then private collection Switzerland.
Exhibition: Zurich 1990, Jörg Immendorff. Bilder und Arbeiten auf Papier. Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich, 24 April - 20 June 1990 (with the label on the reverse).
In our second work from Immendorff, “Alltag im Café Ost“ (“Day-to-day Life in the Café East“), Immendorff focused on the socio-political differences between East and West: the partly crumbling state of the buildings and facilities in the East, the GDR-State and the prevailing social mood. On the other hand, the power of capitalism and Western currencies exerted an influence over the people of the ex-GDR. He played with the dream, the prevailing illusion that all problems would be solved with the money of the West. In spite of the far-sighted view with which he observed the German trauma, he managed in his paintings to achieve a balancing act between political criticism and ironic observation, which required a great complexity in its critical reception.
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