Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate)

Jorg Immendorf, artist

1945–2007

Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate), 1982

Portfolio/Series title: Naht (Suture)

Where object was made: Germany

Material/technique: linocut; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 653 x 537 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 798 x 608 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 25 11/16 x 21 1/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 31 7/16 x 23 15/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 34 1/2 x 28 1/4 x 0 3/4 in
Weight (Weight): 8 lbs

Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund

Accession number: 1988.0023

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Teaching Gallery Label:
“Changing the World: Images of Revolution,” Feb-2009, Kate Meyer
These images relate to a larger series by Immendorf exploring the reality of post-World War II divided Germany called Café Deutschland. In the image on the left, Brandenburg Gate, a location in Berlin that symbolized freedom and the hope for a unified Germany, we see the West German eagle, crushed between the cymbals of a drummer's high hat. The center image, Point of Departure, reveals a gun installation with one leg resting on a portrait of Mao, and the other (on which a book labeled "Marx" is impaled) standing amidst towers of Moscow’s Kremlin. The coat of arms of East Germany appears in the upper left corner. In the image on the right, Column 4, a figure on horseback holding a spear attacks a Soviet soldier. The column alluded to in the print’s title may be the monstrous curving paintbrush in the center of the image.