Color lithograph on Zerkall laid paper. Pencil signature. [19]85.

Plate: 33 x 39 cm, sheet: 51 x 65 cm.

German painter, draughtsman and filmmaker; belongs to the outstanding artistic personalities of this time; he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2001: "My greeting goes to one of the most important German painters and in addition one of the most important documentary filmmakers. For a long time, far too long, the painter Strawalde was also one of the least known contemporary German artists in the West. That could only change with the fall of the Wall, when your art finally found the public appreciation it deserved." (Quote: Gerhard Schröder, former German Chancellor, letter to Strawalde dated 08.07.2001, seen on https://www.mdr.de/kultur/ausstellungen/strawalde-juergen-boettcher-maler-filmemacher-100.html).