Der letzte NVA Pilot. 1990.
Sillkscreen and Acrylic on canvas.
Signed and numbered “10” in the lower right margin. 160 x 130 cm (62.9 x 51.1 in).
The Barcode of Life - The Hans Braun Collection
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• Large-size piece from the important cycle “Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung” (People and Animals after the Opening).
• In this work, Penck tries out technical innovations: reworking silkscreens results in variations on different basic motifs.
• Penck's symbolic pictorial language unfold a striking effect in the reduced color scheme.
• Since 1972, Penck participated in the documenta several times, in 1984 at the Venice Biennale, in 1988 he received a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.

PROVENANCE: Museum Villa Haiss, Galerie Walter Bischoff Collection.
Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Villa Haiss Museum, Zell am Harmersbach (loan).

LITERATURE: A. R. Penck. Menschen und Tiere nach der Öffnung. Übermalungen 1989-91, Galerie Frank Hänel, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 86f., cat. no. ARP 1014 (illu.).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Post War I, auction on June 2, 2006, lot 53 (illu.).

In good condition, in strong colors. With barely visible scuff marks in the lower right area.
The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.