[POSTER] Laienkunst

Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a.

Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame).

A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by emerging German artists staged in East Berlin, at a time when there was still some mobility – albeit limited – between the western and eastern zones of the city (it was not until the following year that the Berlin Wall was constructed). The term “Laienkunst” roughly translates as “amateur art” or “people’s art”. Although it eventually became replaced by the term “Volkskunst”, “Laienkunst” applied to a specific movement in time and place organised (and subtly directed by) the authoritarian East German regime.

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