April 12, 2024
Rosenthal Limitierte Kunstreihen Berliner Maske Salome
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Rosenthal "Berliner Maske" created by Salome ( Wolfgang Cihlarz ) in 1989 is limited to an edition of 500 and this one carries the serial number of 475. Excellent Condition. It is not seldom that artists of the 20th century have chosen the mask as a symbol of their relationship with the outside world. The mask camouflages and interprets, conceals and elucidates, very often at one and the same time. Salome, one of the leading exponents of the "Junge Wilde movement in Germany, demonstrates this in a most unequivocal way. The mask is a self-portrait of the artist. Even the fact that the artist is also blindfolded and thus seemingly oblivious of his immediate surroundings does not isolate him from Berlin, the city in which he lives. Like a map of the city, the mask is also divided into four sectors, each identified by the flags of the occupying powers. It is a mask which has the appearance of being totally torn apart through political tension. And peeping through the torn gap in the mask, not immediately discernible, are the colours of the Federal Republic: black, red and gold. Although the mask outwardly disguises the wearer's face, it can, in this context, be regarded as his second skin. It communicates a part of the artist's own self, that is so say, the "lebensraum" still afforded by this divided city and its significance as an
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