Sturz des Ikarus II. 1978.
Oil on canvas.
Michels G 78/12. Signed and dated in center at bottom and titled on verso of the stretcher. 100.5 x 125.5 cm (39.5 x 49.4 in).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London (verso of stretcher with the gallery label).
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover.
Company collection BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover (acquired from aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: 10. Kunstausstellung des Bezirkes Leipzig. Malerei, Grafik, Plastik, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, October 4 - December 30, 1979.
Zeitvergleich. Malerei und Grafik aus der DDR, Kunstverein, Hamburg, November 20, 1982 - January 9, 1983; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, February 2 - March 13, 1983; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, April 14 - May 8, 1983; Lenbachhaus, Munich, June 8 - July 31, 1983; Städtische Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, September 2 - October 30, 1983; Kunstverein Hanover, November 27, 1983 to January 1984, p. 165 (verso of stretcher with the exhibition label).
Wolfgang Mattheuer - Nähe und Horizont. Malerei, Grafik, Zeichnung, Plastik, Altes Museum, Berlin, June 22 - August 21, 1988, cat. no. 75.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Zwischen Idyll und Katastrophe - Bilder von 1958-1999, Kunstverein Coburg, June 26 - August 22, 1999; Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt a. M., October 31 - December 4, 1999; Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, October 30, 1999 - January 9, 2000 (with illu., no. 52).
Mattheuer. Retrospektive - Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, July 21 - September 22, 2002 (with illu., no. 31).
Wolfgang Mattheuer & Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt, Kunsthaus Apolda, March 31 - June 3, 2007.
Abend, Hügel, Wälder, Liebe. Der andere Mattheuer, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, July 14 - October 14, 2007 (with illu. on plate 53).
Abschied von Ikarus. Bildwelten in der DDR - neu gesehen, Neues Museum, Weimar, October 19, 2012 - February 3, 2013, p. 381.
Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft - Werkschau zum 90. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle Rostock, July 1 - September 17, 2017; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, October 14 - Jaunary 7, 2018, p. 240.

LITERATURE: Heinz Schönemann, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Leipzig 1988 (with illu. plate 74).
Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt, Bilder als Botschaft - Die Botschaft der Bilder. Am Beispiel Wolfgang Mattheuer, Leipzig 1997, illu. no. 51.
Karl-Siegbert Rehberg u. Hans-Werner Schmidt (editors), 60/40/20. Leipziger Kunst 1949-2009, Leipzig 2009, p. 120.
"Among the boldest of Mattheuer's inventions are the spacelike aerial pictures with a view onto earth and on crashing flying objects - half bird, half space-capsule."
Eduard Beaucamp in the catalogh raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, Stefanie Michels (editor), Leipzig/Frankfurt am Main/Berlin 2017, p. 17.