Deutsches Theater... (German Theater...)

1979/1980

A.R. Penck

Associated Names
A.R. Penck

Artist, German, 1939 - 2017

The image shows a variety of dark, thick, interwoven lines and scribbles forming an abstract composition. The shapes include circles and elongated figures, with some resembling human forms or faces. There is a suggestion of figures standing or seated, as well as shapes resembling balloons or silhouetted figures in motion. The abstract drawing encourages viewers to interpret the forms within their imagination.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and roulette on heavy laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.5 × 49 cm (8 7/8 × 19 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 39.1 × 53.1 cm (15 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.438

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Penck 1985, no. 14, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Brody's Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 7, 1984; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1985

  • A. R. Penck: Graphik Ost/West. Braunschweig : Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1985: no. 14, iii/iii

Inscriptions

titled and signed below image, in graphite: Deutsches Theater, Theater heller, Moholo, Miller, Brökmann a.r. penck; on verso, in graphite: DDR 31a

Wikidata ID

Q76556916

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