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JÖRG IMMENDORFF(Bleckede 1945 - 2007 Düsseldorf)
Alltag imCafé Ost. Gegen Westwährung
sofort. 1978.
Oil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Immendorff
78. On the reverse with the archive num-
ber: GMW279 426.
29.5 x 21 cm.
Provenance:
- Galerie Michael Werner.
- Acquired fromGalerie 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, “All-
tag imCafé 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 capita-
lism 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 bet-
ween political criticism and ironic observa-
tion, which required a great complexity in
its critical reception.
CHF 4 000 / 6 000
(€ 3 700 / 5 560)