Bidspirit auction | Significant find in GDR art
Significant find in GDR art -- F - Significant find in GDR art -- Fritz Cremer (1906–1993), “Dedicated to the Dirty Warriors in Vietnam,” rare lithograph on paper, signed and dated 1966 in the lower right, titled in the lower left, with over 50 signatures of members of the GDR Artists’ Association (AdK) below, including: Bruno Apitz, Franz Fühmann, Maxim Vallentin, Stephan Hermlin, Ludwig Renn, Alfred Kurella, Kuba, Max Seydwitz, Hans Rosenberg, Johannes Cibulka, Karl von Appen, Andrew Thorndike, Erwin Strittmatter, Kurt Maetzig, Wilhelm Girnus, Alexander Abusch, Hans and Lea Grundig, Werner Klemke, John Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde, Otto Gotsche, Kurt Sonderling, Helene Weigel, Anna Seghers, Ernst Busch, Konrad Wolf, Werner Steinberg, and others—A sheet this elaborate could really only have been a gift to a GDR institution or a high-ranking official, 29 x 42.5 cm, sheet dimensions 75.5 x 51 cm, framed under glass 78 x 53 cm