Hackbarth, Joe Lot n° 3539

(1931 Belgard - Falken-Gesäß 2000). Sea creature with street lamp and kidneys, surreal collage from 1970, framed. Hackbarth was a German painter of fantastic realism, first a jazz musician, then a painter. In 1945, shortly before the end of the war, Joe Hackbarth fled from Pomerania to the West. From 1949 to 1957, he worked extremely successfully as a jazz drummer in Wolfgang Lauth's group. In the mid-1950s, Joe Hackbarth turned to painting, and from 1960 to 1965 he tried out various styles before finding his own in the mid-1960s: A street lamp stands on a seashore, next to it a fantastic crustacean with two kidneys on its head, a creature lying down and an architectural structure in the sea, drawing with collage (2 wave foils on the P.partout), 30 x 22 cm, r. u. sign. u. dat. (19)70, framed under p.partout & glass. D