his hometown does not like him, of course. A wreath overcomes the self-appointed cultural city hall (in Hall are the fools not all) of its most famous artist son Willi Sitte his 90th, no street named after him, no honorary citizenship is awarded, no organized commemoration. Very reminiscent custom of his native city from what they used to be: The red heart of central Germany, a labor stronghold, and "socialist industrial working class city", at the central square fists of concrete in the sky, which looked as painted by custom.
we had long, we do not want. Silently ignores the power of the new Painter of the old, because she recognizes in himself. A genre picture, produced without the brush and easel. For the premiere of an organ works of composer Wolfgang Fuchs came to images of custom custom-admirers, old fans of Fuchs' Band Pond. Urban celebrities stayed away, as might contaminate the contact with the Altmaler their own careers.
But the self-proclaimed Capital of Culture Hall is because only a scaled mirror image of the larger Germany. The heroes are not celebrated for their deeds, but according to the expediency of their behavior: Egon Krenz, who opened the Berlin Wall, ended up in prison. Mikhail Gorbachev, for years Krenz 'superior, to Ellen Springer Banquet table.
is Good, who like to paint those who can not. In the evaluation of the artistic work going Merit distributor of the new period after the scheme of their predecessors, had to award the Order of Merit. Wolf Biermann was of course a "creeping intellectual plague", as the New Germany did to report 1976th He also could not play guitar! Willi Sitte true 35 years later a similar case: the artist has the misfortune to have painted in the shadow of the functionary. And even today shows no understanding like. "I do not think of it, to renounce the idea of socialism, just because everyone goes on line and because a model has failed," insists the Since a hip operation on a wheelchair instructed painter, who was in GDR times in the SED Central Committee.
No society is obliged to praise as much stubborn double. The plan to establish their own custom gallery were the authorities in Halle so long come to nothing until the artist moved with his work to nearby Merseburg. As if to celebrate the Beatles Manchester. A 80th Birthday in Nuremberg planned review - Sitte Hometown hall had had no interest - took place not because the Germanic National Museum buckled under public criticism, to offer a GDR state artists a platform. 1977, the year after the beer man, manners, was still worthy of the GDR on the documentation responsible. Now it was the ground work and person of the artist would have to be "worked up scientifically."
90th, the custom of celebrating himself for health reasons just as quiet as the GDR its 60th committed, it is the same. The two-time winner of the Arts Award of the City Hall (1953 and 1954) has forfeited with the power that is no longer prepared to see its vast oil ham well. This is how his home city hall does not give rise to honor its famous son. There will be no issue for the man who has lived 64 years on the Saale. Not for political, not aesthetic reasons. But because there are no suitable premises for a major exhibition is, as stated in the cultural department of the city. The hall, based in Moritzburg Foundation sees no reason to Sitte's work to make public for the anniversary. Who wants to see pictures of the artist could still travel to Merseyside.
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