The painter, sculptor, and printmaker Wolfgang Mattheuer is revealed as one of the leading representatives of the ��eipzig School��in this recollection of his work. Documenting how Mattheuer
took part in all exceptional art exhibitions in the German Democratic Republic, the study also covers his contribution to the famed documenta 6 exhibit in Kassel and how it attracted attention
in the West. Detailing the individual works that found their way into West German museums, this record also highlights the largest stock of Mattheuer's graphic works in Chemnitz, chronicling
how the private collection of Hartmut Koch was acquired by the city's Kunstsammlungen and how the artist's complete graphic �uvre became the property of the institution. Reconstructing the
accomplishments of a mastermind who produced nearly 900 sheets with more than 400 inspirational motifs, this catalog presents his collection through large-scale illustrations and scholarly
essays. Mattheuer's pictorial world, always figural but yet often mysterious, unfolds through etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and lino-cuts created over a period of six decades.
