Arno Mohr’s Centenary - paintings and prints

Sabina Grzimek - sculptures

4 June - 31 July 2010

Opening: 4 June, 7 pm
in the presence of Sabina Grzimek

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.