Watercolor, tempera, Chinese ink, pencil, litho chalk, red chalk.
Janda 73/33. Signed and dated lower center as well as with artist's embossing stamp. On Japon. 77 x 51 cm (30,3 x 20 in), the full sheet.
In orig. artist's frame (made by Ulrich Schlegel), with artist's embossing stamp and date on verso. For the work drawing of the crowned relief of the frame cf. Janda 73/71.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Saxony-Anhalt, acquired directly from artist.

EXHIBITION: Peinture et Gravure en République Démocratique Allemande, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 12 March - 26 April, 1981.
Gerhard Altenbourg, Altenburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), Galerie oben, 18 October - 21 November, 1981, p. 34.
Gerhard Altenbourg. Zeichnungen und Graphik, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 10 October - 23 November, 1986 / Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Albertinum, 10 December, 1986 - 4 March, 1987, no. 72.
Gerhard Altenbourg. Wurzellinien, Berlin (East), Staatliche Museen, exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett in the Nationalgalerie, 5 May - 5 July, 1987.
"-sah ichs wie Feuer glänzen um und um-" Altenbourg. Die Metalle, Leipzig, Grassimuseum / Museum für Kunsthandwerk, 26 August - 13 November, 1994.

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