Exhibiton
| 1945-1949 Continuity or New Beginning?
| 1950-1959 Dispute about the Image of Man
1960-1979 Contemporaneousness - Trauma of the Past
| 1980-1989 Manic Normality in Germany
Socialist Realism focused on the intrepid hero of the future, while “Art Informel” saw itself as an expression of the liberated subject in the West. Monuments and memorials in East and West competed with each other for the attention of the inhabitants. A memorial for the unknown political prisoner that was planned to be erected at the border crossing in West Berlin was to be understood as a counterpart to the Soviet victory monument in East Berlin and an indictment of the lack of freedom in the Soviet sphere of influence. The Buchenwald Memorial with a sculpture group by Fritz Cremer functioned as a symbol of anti-fascism in the GDR.
