Funeral in Samarkand, 1997

Blatt: 197 x 359 mm
Einfassungslinie: 186 x 359 mm

Physical Description: Graphite on reddish tinted watercolour paper

Inventory Number: 18173

Object Number: 18173 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 2023 as a gift from Barbara and Eduard Beaucamp

Status: Not on display

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About the Work

In 1962, a GDR government scholarship enabled Tübke to travel in the Soviet Union. This drawing, executed more than thirty years later, bears witness to how decisive that experience had been for him. In the background we can make out the silhouette of the famous mosques of Samarkand. On the stage in the foreground is a group of men carrying a shrouded corpse: The artist is having himself carried symbolically to his grave. It is the return to a homeland of memory.