Claus Weidensdorfer - KÜNSTLERKNEIPE MÜGGELSEE 4 SIEBDRUCKE

4 screen prints, 15 x 10 cm on laid paper.
Subscription for the second nude portfolio of the Müggelsee artists' bar.
Verso with the note: overleaf: C. Weidensdorfer Siebdruck 85
Very good condition , magnificent , impasto application of paint .

Picture pub at Müggelseedamm 233 - a historic address in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

The restaurateur Wilhelm Büttner opened the restaurant "Zum Kaisersteg" here in 1893 (the address at the time was Seestraße 99, today Müggelseedamm 233), where you can drink liqueurs and beer from the nearby Berlin brewery. There is also an event hall with a black piano that can be rented, which soon becomes a popular meeting place for artists, poets and the Bohemians, including Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille, who later found the "Friedrichshagener Poet Circle".

After a long, eventful history, the “picture pub” opened there in the 1970s, run by Peter Feller, and in the 1980s one of the most successful bars in East Berlin. The inn not only organizes exhibitions by regional artists, but also those from all over East and West Germany. Numerous West Berlin artists, prominent musicians, diplomats and culture lovers come here. Even the ARD dedicates a TV documentary to Feller's picture pub.
The end of the picture pub in 1987 was just as sensational: Peter Feller suddenly disappeared for no apparent reason - the bar was closed.