Ode. 1991.
Oil over silkscreen in colors on cardboard, laid on canvas and on stretcher.
Signed and dated "2.VII.1991" in lower margin. 140 x 100,3 cm (55,1 x 39,4 in).
From a series of 10 variations of the same name on the theme: "Worked-over silkcreens in various colors are remarkable documents of laying traces, of action and reaction, they are unmistakable, sensitive comments on one's own situation." (Transl. of quote after Wolfgang Richter in: Strawalde. In der Mitte des Lebens, ACADEMIA Galerie und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Salzburg-Residenz 1991, (no page). In this work Strawalde stages the sound of his days the way he hears and feels it. He employs energetic gestures in applying the paint to the image carrier, showing how moved he was by the fall of the Berlin Wall. [DB].

LITERATURE: Strawalde. In der Mitte des Lebens, ACADEMIA Galerie und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Salzburg-Residenz 1991, with an illu. in color (no page).