Das Dorf. 1955.
Chinese India Ink and chalks.
Janda 55/ 44. Lower left monogrammed and dated. Lower right titled. On paper. 48.5 x 40.5 cm (19 x 15.9 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• For the fist time offered on the international art market (source: artprice.com).
• Filigree and dense work by one of the most important German graphic and print artists.
• Altenbourg's works can be found in, among others, the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Springer, Berlin (West).
Returned to the artist in 1971.
Wilfried and Astrid Rugo, Düsseldorf.
Private collection Munich.

EXHIBITION: Altenbourg. Gouachen, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Lithographien, Galerie Springer, May 12 - 31, 1956, cat. no. 29.
Gerhard Altenbourg. Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, Bücher, Galerie Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Baden-Baden, May 14 - June 28, 1966, cat. no. 11.
Gerhard Altenbourg. Wurzellinien, Staatliche Museen, Ausstellung des Kupferstichkabinetts in der Nationalgalerie, Berlin (East), May 5 - July 5, 1987, no. 107.

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