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This year would have been the 100th birthday of Arno Mohr. Every-day themes and thin lines are distinctive aesthetic properties of this chronicler of Berlin. In the German capital he found many of his typical subjects: people in streets and parks, in backyards and bars, but also many of his models for his well-known portraits, for example the artists Brecht, Weigel and Eisler. A reductive technique was his strength: few marginal lines were sufficient to fix the essential content as Arno Mohr was a keen observer. His credo was: “In life as in art one should focus the main issue”. Sabina Grzimek, once his student at the Academy of Art in Berlin-Weißensee, is first of all well-known as sculptor. Terms like figurative or realistic do not describe her kind of work well enough . She does not only copy outwardnesses or simply external beauty. She is mostly interested in examination of hidden things and those, that are not easily perceptible. Arno Mohr and Sabina Grzimek have in common the capacity to direct the attention to what is essential. Galerie Poll shows paintings, drawings, pictures and sculptures and delivers insight into the extensive work of both artists.


 

 

 

        Arno Mohr: Woman at a Window (Frau am Fenster),1996, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

        Arno Mohr: Amusement Park (Rummelplatz), oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm         Arno Mohr: Concert Evening (Konzertabend), 1996, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm
 

 

 

        Arno Mohr: Family Music (Hausmusik), 1991, colour litograph, signed, 31,6 x 41 cm         Arno Mohr: Brecht, 1963, etching, signed; 52 x 37,7 cm         Arno Mohr: Brecht and Eisler, undated, etching, 19,5 x 26,6 cm
        

         

                 


        Sabina Grzimek: Self-Portrait, 1964-1998, bronze, 0/6, 31 x 24 x 24,5 cm         Sabina Grzimek: Rider of Weinheim (Weinheimer Reiterin), 1994, bronze, 4/6, 62,5 x 17 x 52 cm         Sabina Grzimek: Arno Mohr, 3. version, 1999, terracotta, unique copy, h. 37,5 cm
 

         

        

         Sabina Grzimek: Draft of Mildred Scheel (Entwurf Mildred Scheel), 2009, bronze, 1/22, h. 51,5 cm         Sabina Grzimek: Bozetti (1) und (2), Mildred Scheel, 2009, bronze, 1/22, h. 22 und 23 cm         Sabina Grzimek: Head Mildred Scheel, 2009/10, plaster, h. 67 cm


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Pictures of the opening