Vicky 1913-1966
Berlin: Crisis? What Crisis?
pen and ink and wash on paper
21 x 24
(lower right): 'Vicky'
1987-422iv
@Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was provoked when the USSR demanded the withdrawal of Western troops from West Berlin. This led to the East Germans building the Berlin Wall, dividing...
The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was provoked when the USSR demanded the withdrawal of Western troops from West Berlin. This led to the East Germans building the Berlin Wall, dividing the city in two. Here, people gathered at the Kranzler, a famous café on Kurfürstendamm in the Charlottenburg district, are oblivious to the political crisis that surrounds them.
Provenance
presented by Mr and Mrs Barry Fealdman 1987Literature
'Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45' (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 47.; Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 105.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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