Der Verfilmte. 1999.
Oil on canvas.
Lower left signed and dated. Signed, titled and inscribed "2. Fassung" on the reverse. 120.5 x 100 cm (47.4 x 39.3 in). [CH].

• Bernhard Heisig is one of the protagonists of the Leipzig School.
• In 1977 he participatd in documenta 6 in Kassel.
• In 1985 the 'Museum der bildenden Künste' in Leipzig honored him with a first comprehensive retrospective show.
• Works by the artist are part of many renowned collections, among them the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Brusberg, Berlin.
Private collection Augsburg (acquired from above).
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited from above).

EXHIBITION: Bernhard Heisig. Der Maler und sein Thema - Bilder auf Stein und Leinwand, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, February 3 - April 21, 2001, p. 17 (with color illu.).
Bernhard Heisig. Gestern und in unserer Zeit, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, September 6 - November 15, 2003, p. 34 (with full-page illu.).

LITERATURE: Dieter Brusberg (editor), Bernhard Heisig. "'Gestern und in unserer Zeit' oder 'Das Elend der Macht'. Das Welttheater eines deutschen Malers in sechs Akten", Munich 2014, p. 152 (with color illu.).