Walter Schnackenberg
Fantasy from the Cinema, 1957
Watercolor and pen and ink on paper
19 × 14 in / 48.3 × 35.6 cm
$ 14,000.00
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Famed poster and stage scenery artist Walter Schnackenberg shifts gear and paints a nightmarish vision from his imagination. br The exagerated expressions and macabre quality of the scene it to...
Famed poster and stage scenery artist Walter Schnackenberg shifts gear and paints a nightmarish vision from his imagination. br The exagerated expressions and macabre quality of the scene it to symbolize the artist's deep take on social and psychological issues in Germany at the time. Schnackenberg may have been inspired by Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters". In that iconic work, Goya also reflects on his view of Spanish society. br Signed and dated lower left