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Günter Grass rejected photography as a truthful medium, believing it could not genuinely capture the devastation of environmental destruction. In 1988/89, he traveled through central Germany to document the damage of acid rain on forests, creating drawings and lithographs instead of relying on photos. His works, later collected in the 1990 volume Totes Holz (Dead Wood), depict bleak forests with defoliated, mutilated, and uprooted trees resembling wastelands. The images are accompanied by fragments of poems and excerpts from government forest condition reports, whose dry, factual tone contrasts sharply with Grass’ expressive art. By turning to charcoal, ink, and lithographic crayon, Grass sought to convey his shock and outrage at the slow death of the forests, giving emotional voice to what mere photographs and statistics could not.

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Günter Grass, born in 1927 in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), was a pivotal figure in German literature. His most famous work, The Tin Drum (1959), exemplifies European magic realism, exploring Germany's complex 20th-century history. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, Grass was celebrated for his literary depth and political engagement.

Günther Grass's 1988 aquatint "Nächtlicher Markt" portrays a desolate nocturnal scene. Emaciated figures huddle, their gaunt forms and meager ground scattered items suggesting a desperate struggle for existence within the market's shadows. 


Grass’s lithographic work evokes comparisons to artists such as Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, James Sidney Ensor, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Bruno Schulz, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, Alfred Kubin, Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, Ludwig Meidner, Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, Johannes Grützke, Félicien Rops, Constant Permeke, James Ensor, Frans Masereel, Bruno Schulz, Andrzej Wróblewski, Tadeusz Kantor, Alfred Lenica, Zdzisław Beksiński, Józef Gielniak, Willem Sandberg, M.C. Escher, Anton Pieck, Jan Toorop.



Grass’s lithographic work evokes comparisons to artists such as Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, James Sidney Ensor, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Bruno Schulz, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, Alfred Kubin, Egon Schiele, and Fernand Léger.




Lithograph - Hand signed - 50/50 - 1990

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