4123 - Werner Tübke, "Fiesole, May 1971"

Werner Tübke, "Fiesole, May 1971" A mountainous landscape with cypress trees and scattered houses; a confident depiction of the artists’ village near Florence, created during his trip to Italy, which would prove influential for his later work, Graphite on vellum, titled ‘Fiesole May 1971’ in the centre beneath the image, signed “Tübke” in graphite on the right and bearing the catalogue raisonné number “10/71” in another hand; never framed; sheet dimensions approx. 29.6 x 42 cm. Artist’s biography: a significant German painter, draughtsman and printmaker (1929, Schönebeck/Elbe - 2004, Leipzig), regarded, alongside Wolfgang Mattheuer, Bernhard Heisig and Heinz Zander, as one of the founders of the ‘Leipzig School’, 1945-46: completed a painting apprenticeship in Schönebeck and attended the Master Craftsmen’s School in Magdeburg; 1948-50: studied at the HGB Leipzig under Elisabeth Voigt, Walter Arnold and Ernst Hassebrauk; member of the Schönebeck Circle and influenced by Katharina Heise, 1950-53: studied at the University of Greifswald; 1953: state examination; 1953-54: research assistant at the Central Institute for Folk Art in Leipzig; subsequently worked as a freelancer, then as an assistant and later as a lecturer at the HGB Leipzig; 1972: Professor at the HGB and its Rector from 1973 to 1976, In 1976, he worked as a freelancer and was commissioned to create the world’s largest painting, ‘The Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany’ (1,722 m²), for the Peasants’ War Panorama in Bad Frankenhausen, on which he worked until 1987, In 1982, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts; in 1983, an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR; in 1985, he was awarded an honorary doctorate; he was a member and, from 1989, vice-president of the VBK of the GDR; he received numerous honours and was active in Leipzig, Source: Vollmer, Eisold, *Artists in the GDR* and the internet.