Jürgen Wittdorf
Subtitle: Lieblinge : Arbeiten von 1952-2003 : Sammlung Linkersdorf : Kvost
By: Herausgeber, Stephan Koal, Jan Linkersdorff ; Texte, Christine Heidemann [and four others] ; Übersetzung, Tamerlane Camden-Dunne
Contributors: Wittdorf, Jürgen, 1932-; KVOST - Kunstverein Ost (Berlin, Germany)
Publisher: Distanz Verlag; DISTANZ Verlag GmbH c/o Edel Germany GmbH LLC; Distanz Verlag Gmbh C/O Edel Germany Gmbh LLC
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9783954763405
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Lieblinge :
Description: When Jürgen Wittdorf (1932?2018) died, his apartment in Berlin was full of works of art?his personal ?favorites,? including wood- and linocuts, drawings in red chalk, charcoal, and ink, and ceramics. He owed his breakthrough as an artist in the former East Germany to depictions of young people that rendered them not as idealized workers and farmers but as seekers with all their desires and yearnings. The authorities accused him of straying from the approved aesthetic into a ?Western? style, but the republic?s young audiences celebrated his work. Art was also a medium that allowed Wittdorf to grapple with his homosexuality, which was criminalized in the GDR until 1968. Over the decades, he produced numerous pictures of half-naked or naked male bodies that, in today?s perspective, evince similarities to iconic works by artists including David Hockney and Tom of Finland.00KVOST presents works from the artist?s estate; loans from the collection of the Schwules Museum round out the exhibition. The accompanying book is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the painter and graphic artist?s impressive unpublished oeuvre. With essays by Jan Linkersdorff and Christine Heidemann and a conversation between Andreas Sternweiler and Sebastian Preuss.00Exhibition: KVOST Kunstverein Ost, Berlin, Germany (29.08. - 14.11.2020).
Notes: Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to spine.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Kvost - Kunstverein Ost e.V., Berlin, August 29 - November 14, 2020.