JÖRG IMMENDORFF

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.