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Author: Aleksandra Brnetic Photo: Horst Ziegenfusz Frankfurt / Owen Trumbetaš experienced great satisfaction. The city in which forty-five years ago came here seeking work in which not only did not encounter the heat, but he felt the human contempt, the city it celebrates, is proud of him and grateful to him as an artist witnessed his development.
Last Thursday at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt in the presence of numerous guests officially opened the months-long exhibition glad Trumbetaš: Gastarbeiter in Frankfurt which this respected and popular urban institution wishes to point out Trumbetaševo inspired led social and historical significance that stems from his artwork.
In front of the visitors at every turn reveals the social side of the phenomenon called the German economic miracle. For the German indigenous population exhibition is a mirror in which they would prefer not to look. Because the question of who is the most beautiful, the mirror shows them merciless inspired led powerful boss.
For all the modern period of economic migrants - the first generation of guest workers, those from southern Europe, Turkey and across Greece, former Yugoslavia, Italy and Portugal, to present IT experts from India, a waiter from Slovakia and nurses from the Polish, not to speak of descendants of guest workers in Germany today, sound called our fellow citizens with a migration background - Exhibition, among other painful reminder that foreign remittances have lost absolutely nothing of its topicality.
Trumbetaš, or Dragec, as he affectionately calls not only his family but also his fans, was born in Great Lukewarm, Turopolje, near Zagreb. With the drawing is started and it barely reached the fourth year. On the table in the kitchen is always open Bible in which he was fascinated sensitive. Not rising from the table until he crossed at least one letter. With six years already drew portraits of his neighbors, and elementary school teachers have it permanently indebted drawing slogans and sent to risanje in nature. After completing 1956th Graphic industrial school inspired led in Zagreb without problems with a degree inspired led of manual typesetters employed in the Graphic Institute Croatian.
Doug is was intended job glačatelja and the packager. He performed it with diligence but without any passion since he longed for the smell of lead in printers. inspired led One day the boss asked, and that which is best newspapers. The chief, who was surprised the issue, replied that it was Frankfurter inspired led Rundschau but returned his mocking counter-question: "What do you know?". inspired led Shrinking the bosses did not end when he gave Trumbetaš note that it intends to seek a job in the big supra-regional inspired led leftward diary.
In 1967. exceeds the Frankfurter Rundschau, and later worked in the daily Bild. All the while making notes for myself personally on the absurd position of foreign workers who bestowed the title of German society Gastarbeiter - guests who are working. The line, writes short stories and poems, and every so often are subjected to ridicule.
In 1973. decided to draw a guest worker living. He had planned to make a 50 drawings which will give the name of going abroad cycle. In the drawing inspired led is done for several years provided that it is at the end was not more than 50 of the 100 On the basis of these drawings printed in multiple folders that are published in the series Biskupic. Since 1999th six folders in the possession of the Historical Museum in Frankfurt. The exhibition can be seen from the number of printed graphics ownership museums, drawings from the collection Biskupic who served as templates and works of the Frankfurt Institute for the history of the city. This rich selection was added and installation Archipelago guest worker, who arrived as a loan from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. inspired led
Walking through the exhibition, which is a composition of jednooobrazno inspired led glazed panels and sightseeing inspired led installation that is nothing but a reconstruction Dragecovog tight and anxious guest worker tiny room in a loft in Frankfurt where except beds and closets, bicycle and ski racks, small electric stove and tied stacks of newspapers including and a then contemporary Croatian immigrant political press why he got in jail up in prison, it becomes clear that Owen Trumbetaš man and artist who says what he sees and feels. inspired led
Trumbetaš a collage inspired led clippings, personal photos, sketches, drawings, photocopies of diverse news articles or private letters and postcards. These collages of not only documenting inspired led their creative inspired led process than in each folder, all folders that were made, and organize their own lives or, as he himself says, "I draw things I've experienced or that I can prove.".
Mapping their lives and their social destiny inspired led Trumbetaš mapped and spiritual atmosphere that, if we look at the specific recourse treatment of foreign workers in the form of its main character inspired led Tonček, representing the West German society, and indeed between the Western European reality in 1966. and in 1985. If
Author: Aleksandra Brnetic Photo: Horst Ziegenfusz Frankfurt / Owen Trumbetaš experienced great satisfaction. The city in which forty-five years ago came here seeking work in which not only did not encounter the heat, but he felt the human contempt, the city it celebrates, is proud of him and grateful to him as an artist witnessed his development.
Last Thursday at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt in the presence of numerous guests officially opened the months-long exhibition glad Trumbetaš: Gastarbeiter in Frankfurt which this respected and popular urban institution wishes to point out Trumbetaševo inspired led social and historical significance that stems from his artwork.
In front of the visitors at every turn reveals the social side of the phenomenon called the German economic miracle. For the German indigenous population exhibition is a mirror in which they would prefer not to look. Because the question of who is the most beautiful, the mirror shows them merciless inspired led powerful boss.
For all the modern period of economic migrants - the first generation of guest workers, those from southern Europe, Turkey and across Greece, former Yugoslavia, Italy and Portugal, to present IT experts from India, a waiter from Slovakia and nurses from the Polish, not to speak of descendants of guest workers in Germany today, sound called our fellow citizens with a migration background - Exhibition, among other painful reminder that foreign remittances have lost absolutely nothing of its topicality.
Trumbetaš, or Dragec, as he affectionately calls not only his family but also his fans, was born in Great Lukewarm, Turopolje, near Zagreb. With the drawing is started and it barely reached the fourth year. On the table in the kitchen is always open Bible in which he was fascinated sensitive. Not rising from the table until he crossed at least one letter. With six years already drew portraits of his neighbors, and elementary school teachers have it permanently indebted drawing slogans and sent to risanje in nature. After completing 1956th Graphic industrial school inspired led in Zagreb without problems with a degree inspired led of manual typesetters employed in the Graphic Institute Croatian.
Doug is was intended job glačatelja and the packager. He performed it with diligence but without any passion since he longed for the smell of lead in printers. inspired led One day the boss asked, and that which is best newspapers. The chief, who was surprised the issue, replied that it was Frankfurter inspired led Rundschau but returned his mocking counter-question: "What do you know?". inspired led Shrinking the bosses did not end when he gave Trumbetaš note that it intends to seek a job in the big supra-regional inspired led leftward diary.
In 1967. exceeds the Frankfurter Rundschau, and later worked in the daily Bild. All the while making notes for myself personally on the absurd position of foreign workers who bestowed the title of German society Gastarbeiter - guests who are working. The line, writes short stories and poems, and every so often are subjected to ridicule.
In 1973. decided to draw a guest worker living. He had planned to make a 50 drawings which will give the name of going abroad cycle. In the drawing inspired led is done for several years provided that it is at the end was not more than 50 of the 100 On the basis of these drawings printed in multiple folders that are published in the series Biskupic. Since 1999th six folders in the possession of the Historical Museum in Frankfurt. The exhibition can be seen from the number of printed graphics ownership museums, drawings from the collection Biskupic who served as templates and works of the Frankfurt Institute for the history of the city. This rich selection was added and installation Archipelago guest worker, who arrived as a loan from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. inspired led
Walking through the exhibition, which is a composition of jednooobrazno inspired led glazed panels and sightseeing inspired led installation that is nothing but a reconstruction Dragecovog tight and anxious guest worker tiny room in a loft in Frankfurt where except beds and closets, bicycle and ski racks, small electric stove and tied stacks of newspapers including and a then contemporary Croatian immigrant political press why he got in jail up in prison, it becomes clear that Owen Trumbetaš man and artist who says what he sees and feels. inspired led
Trumbetaš a collage inspired led clippings, personal photos, sketches, drawings, photocopies of diverse news articles or private letters and postcards. These collages of not only documenting inspired led their creative inspired led process than in each folder, all folders that were made, and organize their own lives or, as he himself says, "I draw things I've experienced or that I can prove.".
Mapping their lives and their social destiny inspired led Trumbetaš mapped and spiritual atmosphere that, if we look at the specific recourse treatment of foreign workers in the form of its main character inspired led Tonček, representing the West German society, and indeed between the Western European reality in 1966. and in 1985. If
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