Um die Nacht. 1952.
Mixed media. India ink, watercolor and oil paint pen.
Signed, dated and titled lower right. On thin cardboard. 63.5 x 89.5 cm (25 x 35.2 in), the full sheet. [EH].

• This is the first time that this work is offered on the international auction market.
• Imaginative, poetic work displaying incredible attention to detail and technical virtuosity.
• Altenbourg took part in documenta II in 1959.
• Altenbourg's works are part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (Galerie Springer, 1966).

EXHIBITION: Gerhard Altenbourg. Touring exhibition, including stops at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, September 20–November 2, 1969; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, November–December 1969; Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, March 8 - April 12, 1970; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, July 7 - August 9, 1970; Kunstverein Hamburg, May 30 - June 28, 1970.
15 artisti tedeschi - 15 deutsche Künstler. La situazione dell'uomo nel tempo presente. XXVII. Biennale Nazionale dell'Arte, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Dec. 1971 - Jan. 1972; Kunstverein Darmstadt, Feb./March 1972.

LITERATURE: Annegret Janda, Gerhard Altenbourg. Monographie undWerkverzeichnis, vol. 1: 1937-1958, Cologne 2004, cat. rais. no. 52/16.
Dieter Brusberg (ed.), Gerhard Altenbourg. Werk-Verzeichnis 1947-1969, with the assistance of Annegret Janda, Hannover 1969, cat. rais. no. 52/16 (illustrated).