Walter Womacka
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Title
Walter Womacka
Subject
Walter Womacka, German (former GDR) artist
Description
Walter Womacka poses in front of his painting, Wounded Bull (1997), at a reception at Kunstarchiv Beeskow. The bull pieced with banderillas (decorated, barbed wooden sticks used by bullfighters) is a recurring motif in Womacka's paintings after 1990. The Coca-Cola logo on the side of the ring, the naked spectators, and the signs they hold demonstrate a critique of materialism, consumerism and the culture of excesses in a capitalist society.
Womacka received more state commissions from the GDR than perhaps any other artist and achieved international success. He loved the GDR until the end of his life.
Womacka received more state commissions from the GDR than perhaps any other artist and achieved international success. He loved the GDR until the end of his life.
Creator
Patrick Pleul, photographer
Source
epa
Date
May 25, 2004
Rights
Copyright epa
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Original Format
photograph
Collection
Citation
Patrick Pleul, photographer, “Walter Womacka,” Public Art in East Germany, accessed October 21, 2026, https://charlottedc.net/cms/items/show/17.
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