Press Kit Drawing the City 13.8.20
Press Kit Berlin, 13.8.20 cm, 9 , 34 x 28 , Tuschfeder und Tuschpinsel auf Velinpapier, , Foto: Kai-Annett Becker 1947 2020 Bild-Kunst, Bonn Bonn Bild-Kunst, VG Werner Heldt, Trümmer, Trümmer, Heldt, Werner © Drawing the City Paper-based works from 1945 to the present 14.8.20 – 4.1.21 Contents Press release Drawing the City P. 1 Artists P. 5 Exhibition texts P. 8 Catalogue P. 10 Programme in English P. 11 Press images P. 13 Contact P. 18 Press Release Berlin, 13.8.20 Berlin has been drawn by its history, by triumphs and fiascos, by feudalism, pragmatism, liberalism, democracies and dictatorships. It has also been drawn and painted by many artists. The Berlinische Galerie holds one of the biggest and most significant collections of art about the city of Berlin. The Collec- tion of Prints and Drawings alone houses an abun- dant variety of about 25,000 works on numerous cm 1 , 24 themes. Art from East Berlin accounts for a sub- x 5 , stantial and valuable share of the holdings. In recent 34 years, the Collection of Prints and Drawings has ben- efited from many excellent new acquisitions. , Pastell auf Papier, A special selection will go on display from 14 August, 1972 in many cases for the first time. It will embrace more than 175 works, some as complex series, by 22 women and 47 men: mostly drawings in all formats from big to small, much in colour, much in black-and- white, in very different techniques and with a varie- gated bouquet of representational art, photorealism, surrealism, late Expressionism, abstract styles, illus- trations and comics.
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