K.H. Hödicke
Original + Fälschung

1972

EB32

4 screenprints on paper
96,5 x 63 cm, 62 x 48 cm, 48 x 62 cm, 48 x 62 cm

Edition of 95, signed and numbered
7 proofs, signed

2.400 Euro

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part of portfolio Weekend more editions by K.H. Hödicke
Print by KH Hödicke in the style of a search picture. Two almost identical sketched views of a town one below the other. Above it is written: Original + forgery
Print by KH Hödicke. A sketch of a naked woman in the forest. Underneath it says: where are the hammer and sickle?
Print by KH Hödicke. A sketch of a group of people in summer, lying in front of trees and bushes. Below the first names of the people and “where is the elephant?”
Print by KH Hödicke. A sketch of a family, father, mother and child, in swimwear on a branch by the lake, below which is written: “Where is the painter?”

    Hödicke’s other screenprints for the edition Weekend (EB32):
    Jungsozialistin im Wald, 1972
    62 × 48 cm

    wo ist der Elefant?, 1972
    48 × 62 cm

    wo ist der Maler?, 1972
    48 × 62 cm

    The four screenprints are designed as search images and take up the theme of the weekend.
    The screenprint Original + Fälschung differs from the other three works that K.H. Hödicke contributed to the edition Weekend (EB32), both in its format and in its design. While the formats of the other screenprints – like all the graphic contributions to the Weekend edition – are adjusted to fit the size of the suitcase, the somewhat larger Original + Fälschung (96.5 × 63 cm) is folded in the middle. On the white sheet, two almost identical motifs are arranged one above the other, each printed in silver-grey on a light brown background, showing a sketch-like, detailed view of a town. The two drawings differ “in ten places. The viewer is supposed to find and perhaps even mark these places,”1 as the catalogue raisonné by Block and Vogel notes. The title “Original + Fälschung” printed at the top is complemented by the line “10 mistakes in the copy go unnoticed, but they weigh heavily; they give the forger away,” printed below the upper motif. The sheet is also inscribed by hand with the name of the town depicted: “Olevano”.

    The screenprint Jungsozialistin im Wald was printed in black on grey-green Ingres paper and shows a naked woman standing in a forest clearing surrounded by suggested bushes and trees. Beneath this “drawing in the style of a visual puzzle” is the question “wo ist Hammer und Sichel?” (“where are hammer and sickle?”) printed. In the catalogue raisonné by Block and Vogel, this is still listed as the title of the sheet. In the catalogue later published by Galerie René Block on the occasion of the release of the Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus (special edition, EB31) and Weekend (EB32) editions, however, the title was changed to Jungsozialistin im Wald.2

    The screenprint wo ist der Elefant? was printed on Ingres paper and, according to the catalogue raisonné by Block and Vogel, shows the artist “in the company of his friends, including the painters Markus Lüpertz, Lambert Maria Wintersberger and Hermann Albert, at a picnic in Tuscany.”3 The first names are listed beneath the sketched figures. Below the drawing, the sentence “wo ist der Elefant?” (“where is the elephant?”) is printed.

    According to the catalogue raisonné published by Block and Vogel, the screenprint wo ist der Maler? shows “ „Hödicke, Robert und Anina bei einem Ausflug in Italien“ (“Hödicke, Robert and Anina on an outing in Italy“).4 The title of the sheet is printed beneath the sketched scene. The drawing was printed in black ink on sand-coloured Ingres paper.
    Text: Katrin Seemann

    1 René Block, Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, Berlin: Edition René Block, 1971/1976, p. 222.

    2 Self-portraits. Weekend, ed. by Galerie René Block, Berlin 1972, n.p.

    3 René Block, Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, Berlin: Edition René Block, 1971/1976, p. 221.

    4 René Block, Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, Berlin: Edition René Block, 1971/1976, p. 221.