KP Brehmer
Testbild TV (Braunwerte)

1970/1972

EB32

5 cliché and linocut prints on cardboard, 49 x 62 cm

Edition of 95, signed and numbered; 7 proofs, signed

1.200 Euro

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Print by the artist KP Brehmer. A light brown stylized test image with a wide frame on light cardboard. In the center of the picture is a small black circle. At the bottom of the picture is the inscription: TV test picture to determine fascist tendencies 1
Print by the artist KP Brehmer. A brown-orange stylized test image with a wide frame on light cardboard. In the center of the picture is a thick black cross. At the bottom of the picture is the inscription: TV test picture to determine fascist tendencies 2
Print by the artist KP Brehmer. A medium brown stylized test image with a wide frame on light cardboard. There is a black cross in the center of the test image. At the bottom of the picture is the inscription: TV test picture to determine fascist tendencies 3
Print by the artist KP Brehmer. A brown stylized test image with a wide frame on light cardboard. There is a black cross in the center of the test image. At the bottom of the picture is the inscription: TV test picture to determine fascist tendencies 4
Print by the artist KP Brehmer. A dark brown stylized test image with a wide frame on light cardboard. In the center of the test image is a black swastika. At the bottom of the picture is the inscription: TV test picture to determine fascist tendencies 5

    The five cliché prints Testbild TV (Braunwerte) were created for the edition Weekend (EB32), showing a television test image designed by KP Brehmer in five different shades of brown, over which a swastika is printed that gradually builds up in the five prints. As with all graphics in the edition Weekend, the format of the cliché prints (49 cm x 62 cm) is based on the size of the suitcase. The subtitle printed on the sheets implies that the work was conceived as an action graphic “to identify fascist tendencies” (“zur Feststellung faschistischer Tendenzen”) in television. According to the catalog published by Galerie René Block for the publication of the editions Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus (special edition, EB31) and Weekend (EB32), the printing block of the test images has been used for other Braunwert images on plastic since 1970. The catalog also refers to the genesis of the swastika: “The swastika from the linocut was printed on the 5 brown values by destroying it during the printing process (from B 127 e to B 127 a) by trimming.”1
    Text: Katrin Seemann

    1 Selbstportraits. Weekend, ed. by Galerie René Block, Berlin 1972, n.p.