Jahrmarkt und Einsamkeit. 1956.
India ink and pencil Watercolor.
Janda 56/3. Lower left signed, dated and titled. On wove paper. 74 x 70.5 cm (29.1 x 27.7 in), the full sheet.
[SL/KT].
• Particularly sophisticated interpretation of the fun fair motif in Altenbourg‘s creation
• Imaginative poetic work with a tremendous richness of detail and executed with great technical virtuosity
• For the first time offered on the auction market.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Springer, Berlin (West).
Collection Ernst Jürgen Kirchertz, Hülsede.
Private collection Rhineland.

EXHIBITION: Gerhard Altenbourg. Arbeiten auf Papier und Graphik, Kunstverein Ulm, July 15 - August 18, 1990.

LITERATURE: Dieter Brusberg (editor), Gerhard Altenbourg. Werk-Verzeichnis 1947-1969, in cooperation with Annegret Janda, Hanover 1969, p. 160.