Lea Grundig: A tribute to the human being

Exhibition at the Humboldt-Universität is dedicated to the GDR artist. Her works denounced the Nazi regime at an early stage and dealt critically with social issues. Lea Grundig was one of the best-known artists of the GDR. From September 8 to October 28, 2022, an exhibition at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will focus in particular on the early work of the Dresden-born artist. Lea Grundig created around 4,200 works in the course of her life. 1,200 works alone were created in Palestinian exile, which she was able to achieve during the Nazi era as an endangered Jew after two prison internments in Dresden in 1940. When she returned to Dresden in 1949, the artist asked herself what the "new" Germany in the Soviet occupation zone and later the GDR was producing and which people were shaping it.