4148 - Michael Morgner, "Angst"

Michael Morgner, "Angst" a figure typical of the artist against a dark background, etching and embossing on handmade paper, signed and dated in lead below the image on the right as "Morgner (19)92" and titled "Angst" on the left, slightly faded, image dimensions approx. 64.5 x 49 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 73 x 54 cm. Artist information: real name Michael Kurt Thomas Morgner, German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor (born 1942 in Dittersdorf near Chemnitz), 1960-61: worked at DEWAG; 1961-66: studied at the HGB Leipzig under Heinz Wagner, Harry Blume and Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler; from 1966: worked as a freelance artist in Dittersdorf; Moved to Einsiedel in 1974; founding member of the ‘Galerie oben’, in 1977 co-founder of the artists’ gallery “Clara Mosch”, until 1988 a member and, at times, a district executive committee member of the VBK of the GDR, undertook study trips, including to the USSR and Poland, and contributed works to numerous exhibitions, 1991: Founding member of the Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden and the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig; based in Einsiedel. Source: Eisold, *Artists in the GDR*, and the internet.