Unzeitgemasse Zeitgenossen

UNUSUAL BUT FASCINATING

This statue lies in a busy pedestrian walkway and therefore looks out of place. However, its still fascinating to look at with its five figures standing upon a T shaped base. They are all coloured bla...

UNUSUAL BUT FASCINATING

This statue lies in a busy pedestrian walkway and therefore looks out of place. However, its still fascinating to look at with its five figures standing upon a T shaped base. They are all coloured bla...

Amazing that it passed censorship in for the GDR

A very nice example how creatively artists over circumnavigated censorship during the socialism. The modified description of the four „professions“ is just amazing

Amazing that it passed censorship in for the GDR

A very nice example how creatively artists over circumnavigated censorship during the socialism. The modified description of the four „professions“ is just amazing

In English it will be "Untimely Contemporaries".

It was created by Bernd Goebel with caricaturical meaning. The artist was apparently unhappy with the hypocrisy of the Communist East Germany and put his frustration about DDR on figures into this pie...