Krawtschenko, Wladimir (1933), artist Wladimir Krawtschenko. Bilder aus der Ukraine, Deutschland & Anderswo. Retrospektive. Berlin, Galerie Taube, 2005. [16 color plates.]
(Ausstellung 198. 4.Februar - 2. April 2005)
€27,50
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8 vo, original covers designed by Klaus Märtens and Wladimir Krawtschenko. Introduction by Klaus Märtens and artist´s biography are printed on inner sides of front and back covers.
Edition limited to 500 copies, printed on TCF paper. Notes in fine red pen, corrigenda. FINE.

A retrospective, fifteenth exhibition of the artist´s oils. Krawtschenko exhibits in Berlin (and in the West) from the very early days following collapse of the Soviet Union.The artist was born in Borovichi near Novgorod but moved back to the Ukraine already in 1952. He worked as an architect between 1959 and 1992 in Kiev´s City Planning Bureau. His architectural drawings are kept in major museums in Germany, Poland and the Ukraine.

Our copy signed by gallery owner and the artist. Two pictures of cartoon style doves in Chinese ink with signature in red by Ilya Kitup, a talented Berlin artist, printer and poet from Vilnius, residing in Berlin- Charlottenburg from 1991.

A beautiful and nostalgic association copy on small gallery in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and Russian-German-Jewish artistic community ties in Berlin after the fall of Berlin Wall.

Provenance: Ilya Kitup archive; Boris Raskin archive and library of contemporary Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian artists and poets.