Hand-bound portfolio comprising nine serigraphs in colors by A. R. Penck on Arches wove paper (watermark) to a text by Mikis Theodorakis, a CD by the composer and a bronze sculpture by Gottfried Bräunling
Germany, 1995
A.R. Penck (b. 1939) – German painter and graphic artist
Gottfried Bräunling (b. 1947) – German Artist
Numbered in pencil ‘47/100’ and signed ‘ar penck’, ‘Mikis Theodorakis’ and ‘GBräunling’ in the justification
The bronze sculpture with punched signature GBräunling’, numbering ‘47/100’ and the copyright/foundry mark in the bottom side of the base
Edited by Asteris Kutulas and Gottfried Bräunling
Published by edition G.B. & Asti Music, berlin and Athens
In black wooden case with serigraphed title on the lid
Sheet dimensions: each around 65.7 x 50.3 cm
Height of the Bronze sculpture: 40.5 cm
Very good condition
Very interesting Portfolio with serigraphs in strong colors, showing Penck’s typical form language; The portfolio ‘Das Meer, der liebe Gott und das Muli’ fetches up to €3.400 at international auctions

This very interesting portfolio was created in 1995 on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of the composer and writer Mikis Theodorakis, whose text of ‘Das Meer, der liebe Gott und das Muli‘ gave the portfolio title and which is bound together with the nine serigraphs in colors by A.R. Penck in German translation by Asteris Kutulas, as well as in the Greek original. A small stele-like bronze sculpture by the German artist Gottfried Bräunling, who also did the binding of the leaves, and a CD with a recording of the theater music "Macbeth" by Theodorakis complete the portfolio.

The nine serigraphs in colors are signed in pencil ‘ar penck’, ‘GBräunling’ and ‘Mikis Theodorakias’, and numbered ‘47/100’ in the justification. They are hand-bound together with title and text sheets and contained together with a bronze sculpture by Gottfried Bräunling and a CD in a wooden case. The sculpture is punched with the signature ‘GBräunling’, the numbering ‘47/100’ and the copyright/ foundry mark. The sheets and the sculpture are in very good condition. The wooden case shows insignificant signs of wear and is overall in very good condition, too. The bound sheets measure each around 65.7 x 50.3 cm. The height of the bronze sculpture is 40.5 cm. The dimensions of the case are 71.5 x 55.7 x 4.5 cm.

R. Penck (b. 1939)

Born in Dresden in 1939, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted several pseudonyms. ‘A. R. Penck’ was the name that followed through and that he is today famous for. He started taking drawing lessons with Strawalde. In the early 1950s, he was trained as an advertising artist. In 1966, he adopted the pseudonym ‘A. R. Penck’. As off 1973, he also signed his works with ‘Mike Hammer’, ‘T. M.’ or ‘Y.’. Whilst his work was under various restrictions in the German Democratic Republic, he received the Wilhelm-Grohmann Award from the Academy of Arts in West Berlin in 1975. In 1976, he made the acquaintance of the artist Jörg Immendorff, with whom he collaborated for a few years. In 1980, Penck moved to West Germany. Three years later, he settled in London, and in 1988 he moved to Düsseldorf for a job as a professor for painting at the Academy of Arts. After his retirement in 2003, he settled in Dublin, where he lives and works today. Works by A.R. Penck are on display in major museums collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. (fea)



Gottfried Bräunling (b. 1947)

Born in Radebeul near Dresden, the artist studied from 1969 to 1974 painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden under Günter Horlbeck. Since then he works freelance and publishes amongst other bibliophile books in his self-publishing edition GB. He lives and works in Berlin and the Palatinate.

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