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This volume is the catalog to an exhibition to be held at theStaedtische Galerie Dresden, which will feature Penck s worksfrom a large private collection. It features nearly 500illustrations from the 1950s when Penck first began his artisticcareer to 1980 when he emigrated from East Germany. BornRalf Winkler in 1939, Penck witnessed the bombing of hishometown of Dresden in 1945. The shockwaves of thatexperience can be sensed through his dramatic and boldworks. For years Penck practiced his art underground, awayfrom the intrusive eyes of the Communist regime that weresensitive to the artist s use of symbolism and archetypes. Asthese restrictions loosened in the 1980s, Penck allowed himselfto create larger, more gestural and figurative paintings. Thisevolution, from the unspoken to the overt, becomes evidentin this volume, which includes beautifully reproduced imagesof his paintings, drawings, and prints, and provides audiences<
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GISBERT PORSTMANN is the director of the Stadtische Galerie Dresden JOHANNES SCHMIDT is a curator at the Stadtische Galerie Dresden
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- PublisherPrestel Pub
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 3791340646
- ISBN 13 9783791340647
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages258
- EditorPeinelt Sabine
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