Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009) - Lightline Gothic / Computer man

Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009), Serigraph in colors/silkscreen, Lightline Gothic, typographically and pencilsigned signed upper right, sheet sizes 59 x 41 cm. Good condition with small creases - bright vivid colouring.


Heinz Edelmann was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy he became a successful illustrator, drawing satirical cartoons for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He began his career as a designer of theatre posters and provided cover illustrations for the youth magazine twen and also schule magazine.
Visiting the Tate Gallery one day, the producer of The Yellow Submarine, Al Brodax and Brian Epstein had been impressed by the colours in Turner’s Burial at Sea, and this helped to overcome Epstein’s resistance to appointing Edelmann artistic director, as he was an artist capable of realising such a vision. Although a chain smoker, Edelmann insisted that he had never taken LSD and that his knowledge of psychedelic experience was second hand. Despite this, his colourful creations became the visual signature of the drug enthused generation of the 1960s. There was clearly a political element as well, epitomised by the "Blue Meanies", who so presciently anticipated the cruel regime of Margaret Thatcher, who became Prime Minister a decade or so later and put an end to the joyful era ushered in by the Beatles. The flying glove, based on the US flag, was a symbol of puritanism and a wonderful evocation of the US imperialism of the Vietnam War.