GDR Black, 2018
MediumFurniture, requisites, two studies by Karl Heinz Jakob (1929–1997) on the painting “Concert Introduction” (1962)
About the workHenrike Naumann’s installation seems to have come straight from another time. The work consists of a wall unit like those imitating designer furniture that were fashionable in the new federal states after German reunification in 1990. Inside are neatly stacked crockery, a grandfather clock and two paintings by the Zwickau painter Karl-Heinz Jakob, Naumann’s grandfather. The artist thus establishes a link between her generation and Jakob’s, who lived in the GDR. Both of them articulate their own impressions through art – whether from direct experience or a historical distance.
AccessionPermanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstpalastes
Provenance2019 Acquisition by the Friends of the Kunstpalast
From 2019 on permanent loan of the friends of the Kunstpalast to the Kunstpalast
Inventory number0.2019.16L
