Dispersion on canvas. Signed, dated and titled "Rückenakt" on the reverse of the canvas. 251 x 202 cm.

• A larger-than-life, erotically charged male nude in the characteristic vivid expressiveness of the “Junge Wilde”.
• The prospect as a place of longing: the vast Alpine landscape starkly contrasts the walled-in city of West Berlin.
• In the year of its creation, Rainer Fetting featured in the critical “Zeitgeist” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and in the 40th Venice Biennale.
• The artist was a leading figure in the revolutionary Berlin art scene and a renovator of figurative painting in the early 1980s.
• His works from the 1980s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Many of them are in leading museums like the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Pinakothek der Moderne der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, the Portland Art Museum, and Tate Gallery, London.
LITERATURE: Rainer Fetting und Jan Hoet, Fetting, Cologne 2009, p. 166, cat. no. 177 (with full-page ill.). Simone Wiechers, Pelikane am Potsdamer Platz. Das neue Berlin im Werk von Rainer Fetting, in: Rainer Fetting, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2011, p. 115.