Chinese ink, porinting ink and Watercolor.
Janda 60/14. Signed, dated "1960/April" and titled on verso. On laid paper. 19,4 x 35 cm (7,6 x 13,7 in), the full sheet.

PROVENANCE: Graphik-Börse Dr. Heinrich Mock, Munich.
Collection Host Zahlmann, Munich.

EXHIBITION: Gerhard Altenbourg. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, Luxusdrucke, Graphikbörse Am Kaiserplatz Dr. Heinrich Mock, Munich, 2 - 26 October 1962, no. 6 ("Stadt in der Slowakei").

Gerhard Altenbourg was stationed in Eastern Slovakia as a solider in 1944. Small watercolors and drawings with views of villages were made in this context. The impressions gained there are worked up in the abstract use of forms in this work from 1960. [JS]