Category
Painting
Medium
Oil/canvas
Type of Artwork
Original artwork
Certificate issued by
Maison d-Art
Signature
lower right
Size of the artwork
33 x 41 cm(12.99 x 16.14 in)
Overall Framed Size
41 x 49 cm(16.14 x 19.29 in)
Invoice issued by
Maison d-Art
Condition
good condition
Artwork description

Swedish collection of Vallberga. The street corner shop of the village is observed in a bird's-eye view. The personal and remarkably critical slant -though all in suggestion- of Mattheuer is turned towards the observation of the closed blue food shop unsupplied. People are on both sides helpless, separated by the building (the Berlin Wall ?) despite bearing the same unsatisfaction and distress. The relationship of the individuals and of the community is then mixed with the veiled question of the unsufficient food supplies in the DDR behind the Berlin Wall. Art from the GDR from the official painters as Wolfgang Mattheuer had to cope with the strict guidelines of Socialist Realism. Confirming that the most heterogeneous forms of artistic expression developped despite a very patronizing system. 6 pages study available by email



Wolfgang MATTHEUER
(1927-2004)

Circa 1960-65 The Closed Blue Shop

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