Ende im Osten (Ostende). 1979.
Dispersion on canvas.
Lower right signed and inscribed. 132 x 178.5 cm (51.9 x 70.2 in).

• “Ende im Osten” was created one year before A. R. Penck was expatriated and forced to move to the West
• The symbolic signs spread across the painting's surface with extraordinary delicacy.
• The pictorial system that A. R. Penck devised is based on his extensive preoccupation with scientific themes.
• Penck exhibited at the documenta in Kassel in 1972, 1982 and 1992, and at the Venice Biennale in 1984.

The work is registered in the archive of Galerie Werner, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (with two labels on the reverse)
Sabine Knust, Munich
Private collection Southern Germany (family-owned since 1981).

"Every picture is a kind of journey, and following the picture is more than just a drug"
A.R.Penck, documenta 6 catalog, vol. 1, p. 118