Heinz Hajek-Halke

Silver print, printed 1979. Signed, dated and dedicated in felt tip pen on the reverse.

Artist estate

Klaus Honnef, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Artist, Anarchist, Göttingen, Steidl, 2006, ill. p. 37.

This print is in overall very good condition, with very light surface scratches and minor handling marks throughout the print, only visible in raking light.
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"The harmless title tempers the severity of the compositional structure. This consists of mere fragments, the head of a woman singing, hands playing a keyboard but neither physiognomically or compositionally suited to the head, and the formidable mechanics, which not only spread out over the face of the singer like a headache, but set the whole image vibrating. A reflection of a splintered world, full of brutality and cruelty, even in its meaningless pleasures. [...] The blunt directness with which Hajek-Halke treated this relatively commonplace subject was one that [John] Heartflied used only against his political enemies, the Social Democrats and the National Socialists, and then with a coldness fed by hatred." (Klaus Honnef: Heinz Hajek-Halke, dans Heinz Hajek-Halke. Artist, Anarchist, Göttingen, Steidl, 2005, p. 37.)