Museum Barberini

Artists in the GDR were caught between providing a role model and retreating into seclusion, between operating within a prescribed collective and pursuing creative individuality. How did they reflect the way they saw their profession and their own take on the official mission to educate the public? This exhibition brings together self- and group portraits, role projections and studio scenes to illustrate the critical gaze they turned upon themselves.

Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR is about the self-styling of artists as individuals from 1945 to 1989, presented through four generations in paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, sculptures, and performances.
It shows
 that art cannot be reduced to ideological ascriptions. With this exhibition, the Museum Barberini has begun to investigate its collection of GDR art, which still plays a marginal role in German art history. Building on in-house holdings, the show brings together more than one hundred works by eighty artists.

Curated by Valerie Hortolani and Michael Philipp

Artists:

Karl-Heinz Adler (*1927)
Gerhard Altenbourg (1926–1989)
Heinrich Apel (*1935)
Walter Arnold (1909–1979)
Theo Balden (1904–1995)
Harry Blume (1924–1992)
Micha Brendel (*1959)
Gudrun Brüne (*1941)
Kurt Buchwald (*1953)
Kurt Bunge (1911–1998)
Clara Mosch (1977–1982, Carlfriedrich Claus, Michael Morgner, Thomas Ranft, Dagmar Ranft-Schinke, Gregor-Torsten Schade)
Fritz Cremer (1906–1993)
Lutz Dammbeck (*1948)
Jutta Damme (1929–2002)
Hartwig Ebersbach (*1940)
Günter Firit (1947-2010)
Wieland Förster (*1930)
Else Gabriel (*1962)
Sighard Gille (*1941)
Hermann Glöckner (1889–1987)
Peter Graf (*1937)
Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (*1947)
Hans Grundig (1901–1958)
Sabina Grzimek (*1942)
Ulrich Hachulla (*1943)
Klaus Hähner-Springmühl (1950–2006)
Angela Hampel (*1956)
Rolf Händler (*1938)
Frieder Heinze (*1950)
Helmut Heinze (*1932)
Bernhard Heisig (1925–2011)
Bert Heller (1912-1970)
Peter Herrmann (*1937)
Sabine Herrmann (*1961)
Günther Hornig (1937-2016)
Joachim Jansong (*1941)
Irene Kiele (*1942)
Erich Kissing (*1943)
Siegfried Klotz (1939–2004)
Otto Knöpfer (1911-1993)
Gerda Lepke (*1939)
Walter Libuda (*1950)
Eberhard Löbel (*1938)
Lücke-TPT (1971-1976, Harald Gallasch, Wolfgang Opitz, A. R. Penck, Hartmut Terk)
Frank Maasdorf (*1950)
Peter Makolies (*1936)
Otto Manigk (1902–1972)
Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927–2004)
Harald Metzkes (*1929)
Paul Michaelis (1914–2005)
Gertraud Möhwald (1929–2002)
Otto Möhwald (1933-2016)
Michael Morgner (*1942)
Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann (1895–1969)
Rudolf Nehmer (1912–1983)
A.R. Penck (1939–2017)
Wolfgang Peuker (1945–2001)
Stefan Plenkers (*1945)
Karl Raetsch (1930–2004)
Robert Rehfeldt (1931–1993)
Evelyn Richter (*1930)
Arno Rink (1940-2017)
Theodor Rosenhauer (1901–1996)
Jürgen Schieferdecker (*1937)
Cornelia Schleime (*1953)
Baldur Schönfelder (*1934)
Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907–1976)
Willi Sitte (1921-2013)
Volker Stelzmann (*1940)
Werner Stötzer (1931–2010)
Strawalde (Jürgen Böttcher, *1931)
Erika Stürmer-Alex (*1938)
Werner Tübke (1929-2004)
Elisabeth Voigt (1893–1977)
Andreas Wachter (*1951)
Norbert Wagenbrett (*1954)
Dieter Weidenbach (*1945)
Trak Wendisch (*1958)
Karlheinz Wenzel (*1932)
Christoph Wetzel (*1947)
Karin Wieckhorst (*1942)
Karla Woisnitza (*1952)
Willy Wolff (1905-1985)
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (*1932)
Heinz Zander (*1939)
Thomas Ziegler (1947–2014)