Hartmut von Altrock
3 albums/18 artworks – German painter and printmaker Hartmut von Altrock (1931 – 2014) born in Breslau and later based in Berlin and the French Auvergne, is best known to the wider art world for his delicate cityscapes, intimate interiors, and flower still-lifes.Under the pseudonym Max von Strauch, however, he created a parallel and far more daring body of work that perfectly captures the smoky, decadent atmosphere of 1920s Weimar Berlin – even though the drawings were made decades later. Using the fictional identity of “Max von Strauch, Berlin 1924”, Altrock produced small, highly collectible portfolios of expressionist ink drawings depicting Berlin prostitutes, dominatrices, and explicit erotic scenes. The best-known series is Mein expressionistisches Berlin, 8 erotische Zeichnungen von Berliner…
