Attributed to Harald Duwe - Untitled

The work's iconography has an ironic, grotesque quality, likely with some allegorical and satirical connections. The language used has strong connections to the German New Objectivity artistic movement. The same simplified and infantile interpretation of a realism based on a marked plasticity is evident. We find the same cynical nature of painters like George Grosz and Otto Dix in lashing out at their own society with lucid irony.

The graphic work displays the distinctive features of the objective style of Harald Duwe, the artist to whom the work has been attributed. Like the German masters, his painting emphasizes the plasticity of his subjects, inflating their limbs with a rounded form. His deformations are caricatural, dictated by a hyperrealist, kitsch taste. However, unlike the masters of New Objectivity, Duwe's volumes are enhanced by a soft pictorialism that shapes them and merges them with the space.

The graphic work has been attributed to Harald Duwe, a German artist who lived between 1926 and 1984. He trained as a lithographer in Hamburg and studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1950. A scholarship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein brought Duwe to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris for six months in 1966. The work Graue Wand, begun there and completed in 1968, is considered his first major work, heralding his future position as a critical realist. Subjects of the armed forces, leisure, and the environment were now part of his repertoire. From 1974, his range of subjects expanded to include demonstration images, industrial images, and images of society.

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