Böse Menschen haben keine Lieder. 2002.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 200 x 140 cm (78.7 x 55.1 in). [CH].


• This is one of the internationally sought-after large-format paintings from the 2000s.
• According to the artist himself, Bisky uses stylistic devices reminiscent of Socialist Realism to process pictorial worlds that were formative for his youth in the GDR.
• By typifying the figures, the artist achieves a certain distance, topples the often idealized image of man in German history and ends up with a timeless statement about human existence.
• The title Bisky chose for this work refers to the lyrics of a folk song by Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810).
•The artist's paintings are in important collections, including the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the FNAC at the Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea in Seoul.

The work is registered at the Studio Norbert Bisky, Berlin, under the catalogue raisonné number NBC02.77. We are grateful for the kind support in cataloging this work.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Terminus, Munich.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2002).