Roger Loewig Collection

In 1963 the painter and graphic artist Roger Loewig was arrested following his first privately organised exhibition in East-Berlin. Throughout the regime, Loewig denied socialist realism artistic forms of production, while his artworks were considered subversive. After almost one year of imprisonment, Loewig was released in the GDR with the support from the Protestant Church from West Germany. Loewig’s release on three years probation could not be prevented. It was only 1972 that the artist could leave the GDR and settled in West-Berlin. Following his death in 1997, Loewig’s private fine-arts collection was bestowed by the Roger Loewig Association. This was founded in 1998 in Frankfurt Oder. Since 2000 the fine-arts legacy of the artist is preserved by the Federal Foundation for Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. This aims at facilitating the scientific documentation and preservation of Loewig' artistic legacy. The literary and biographical works are currently on hold at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

于1963年，画家与图形艺术家罗杰·洛维格在其在东柏林举办的首次私人展览后遭到逮捕。在整个政权统治期间，洛维格拒绝采用社会主义现实主义的艺术创作形式，而其艺术作品被视为具有颠覆性。在将近一年的监禁之后，洛维格在西德新教教会支持下，在德意志民主共和国获得释放。洛维格的三年缓刑释放无法避免。直到1972年，艺术家方得以离开德意志民主共和国，定居于西柏林。洛维格于1997年去世后，其私人美术收藏品由罗杰·洛维格协会赠予，该协会成立于1998年，位于法兰克福-奥德河畔。自2000年起，艺术家的美术遗产由联邦基金会负责重新审视德国统一社会党专政时期，旨在促进对洛维格艺术遗产的科学记录与保存。其文学作品与传记作品目前存放在柏林艺术学院，等待后续处理。