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150 - WOLFGANG MATTHEUER
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WOLFGANG MATTHEUER (1927 Reichenbach (Vogtland) – 2004 Leipzig) Suite '89, 1989/99 Portfolio of 6 linocuts. 70 x 85 cm. Edition 48/50. Each numbered in the lower left corner, with a dry stamp from Tabor-Presse, Berlin. Titled, signed, and dated in lead in the lower right corner. Accompanied by the catalog for Suite '89. In original half-linen case. Published by: Edition Brusberg, 1990. WVZ: 317A-322A Provenance: Private collection, Saxony The portfolio contains 6 linocuts with the following titles: 1. Breakout; 2. Catastrophe; 3. Spiral; 4. Step into the New Century; 5. Grandeur and Misery; 6. Icarus Takes Flight. This portfolio was created during the pivotal year of 1989. Mattheuer himself explained in a conversation with Dieter Brusberg (publisher) in March 1990: “What is now presented as a whole did not come about in this way. Rather, the obvious sense of unity arose from the events of the fall of 1989. With the exception of one, ‘Icarus Takes Flight,’ I had already cut all the other sheets in the course of the year, before those wonderful weeks in September and October 1989. (...)”
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