Etching on laid paper. Pencil signature. [19]85. Copy: 10/80.

Plate: 19 x 14 cm, sheet: 27 x 19.5 cm.

German painter, draftsman and filmmaker; belongs to the outstanding artistic personalities of the time; he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2001: "My greeting is for 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. This 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, https://www.mdr.de/kultur/ausstellungen/strawalde-juergen-boettcher-maler-filmemacher-100.html).