Konrad Lueg
Babies

1967

EB25

Screen print on cardboard
59 x 83 cm

Edition of 80 in cassette (1/80 - 80/80) + various h.c. exemplars, signed and numbered

1.200 Euro

Request
part of portfolio Grafik des kapitalistischen Realismus more editions by Konrad Lueg
Screen print by Konrad Lueg. 6 rows, each with 6 drawn babies with different gestures and facial expressions on a light background

    Babies is Konrad Lueg’s contribution to the portfolio Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus (EB25). It is based on a “two-color proof of an advertisement for baby products”1 that Lueg found in a print shop and reproduced as a screen print for the graphic portfolio. The print shows six different portraits of a baby arranged in six rows one below the other. It is one of Lueg’s few print works and, with its ornamental representation of the motif, ties in with his paintings and graphics featuring patterns from wallpaper and textiles. Like the object Würfel (EB6), published in the same year, Babies is part of Lueg’s exploration of everyday consumer culture.
    Text: Katrin Seemann

    1 René Block, Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, Berlin: Edition René Block, 1971/1976, p. 128.