SIGNED, Dragutin Trumbetas, Gastarbeiter, 1977, First Edition, Büchergilde

Description

Dragutin Trumbetas

Gastarbeiter (Immigrant)

 

Rare First Edition Published in 1977

by Büchergilde in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Text in German, Turkish, Croatian, Italian

Original Soft Binding

Pages 168

25,5cm x 18,5cm

 

DESCRIPTION: A Illustrated Art-style publication throughout the book about the Immigration History in Germany!

The experience of working as a migrant worker in the Federal Republic of Germany decisively influenced the work of Dragutin Trumbetaš, a self-taught painter from Velika Gorica near Zagreb. He worked in publishing in Zagreb until 1966, and his knowledge of different printing techniques was of great help later in his career. He expressed himself mainly through drawing; he would group his drawings and publish them in thematic series. It is from one such thematic series – namely, Life Like a Snake – that we are presenting two drawings. Their central theme is the everyday life of people coming from the lowest social strata. Unlike the artists gathered around the Earth Association of Artists – who were in the interwar period equally devoted to the social problems of both the countryside and the city – Trumbetaš focused almost entirely on the phenomenon of the lumpenproletariat or the lowest stratum of the industrial working class . This attracted his interest and was contributed mostly to his Gastarbeiter (migrant worker) experience in the Federal Republic of Germany. In other words, his stay in a country that was at the peak of its economic development in the 1970s. The hard life of millions of migrants to West Germany was a lasting source of fascination and inspiration for Trumbetaš.