Of
Gustav Seibt
One of the somewhat dreamlike aspects of the art history of the GDR is that drawing courses for people’s police officers were offered there. Or that organizations and companies “adopted” individual artists from whom they commissioned and took works and thus contributed to their livelihood. The underlying idea was to bring art, the beauty that was once reserved for the ruling classes, into the living and working world of the masses. Court artists became company artists. When you think about it, it’s anything but ridiculous.