Claus Weidensdorfer - 4 SCREEN PRINTS ARTISTS' BAR MÜGGELSEE 1985

4 screen prints, 15 x 10 cm on laid paper.
Subscription for the 2nd nude portfolio of the artists' bar Müggelsee.
Verso with the note: overleaf: C. Weidensdorfer Siebdruck 85
Very good condition, splendid, pasty application of paint.

Bilderkneipe at Müggelseedamm 233 – a historic address in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

The restaurateur Wilhelm Büttner opened the restaurant "Zum Kaisersteg" at this location in 1893 (the address at the time was Seestraße 99, today Müggelseedamm 233). There you can drink liqueurs and beer from the nearby Berlin brewery. You can also rent an event hall with a black piano, which soon becomes a popular meeting place for artists, poets and the bohemian community, including Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille, who later founded the "Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis".

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