Baut Euch Eure Häuser selbst
Build Your Own Houses
© Chris Reinecke Foto: Kunstpalast - LVR-ZMB - Annette Hiller

Build Your Own Houses, 1970

Series titleTenant's Solidarity, Window Posters
Series titleLIDL AND TENANT'S SOLIDARITY DUSSELDORF
ArtistChris Reinecke, Potsdam *1936
Felt pen, collage, typewriter
Sheet dimensions29,8 × 21 cm
Sheet dimensions (Untersatz)30,7 × 22 cm
Status
on display, room 020
About the workUnder the motto "Build your own houses", a week-long protest action took place on the square in front of the theatre from 19 to 26 September 1970. The event was a mixture of demonstration, information and creative action. Cardboard houses were erected and exploitative landlord practices were denounced on posters. Chris Reinecke devised solutions for citizens to avoid exorbitant rents. The Düsseldorf-based filmmaker Lutz Mommartz recorded the protest in the documentary "Mietersolidarität" ("Tenant’s Solidarity").
AccessionGift of Chris Reinecke 2023
Provenance2023 erworben durch Schenkung der Künstlerin
Inventory numbermkp K 2023-32
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