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A. R. Penck.
Kneipen und Kneipentexte.
Dresden, 1979.
Penck (real name: Ralf Winkler) is possibly the most prominent of the East German graphic artists of the 1970s and 1980s. He has had numerous individual shows and catalogs featuring his work. Kneipen und Kneipentexte was Penck's last work before he was expelled from the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1980. This was a critical period in East Germany, not long after the writer Wolf Biermann's expulsion, and Penck had to leave the country within twenty-four hours, while the book was in press. As a result, it was not signed by Penck, but rather by his equally well-known colleague, the printer Jochen Lorenz. Penck and Lorenz were, with three others, the main figures of the Obergrabenpresse in Dresden around this time, Penck having been one of the four founders. The text is a first edition of Lutz Rathenow, an important writer, while the book itself is actually in the format of a Mappe, or portfolio of images, the preferred format of the Obergrabenpresse. |
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