Werner Tübke | |
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Tübke (left) presenting a 1:10 version of Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany to Erich Honecker
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Born |
Schönebeck, Germany |
30 July 1929
Died | 27 May 2004 Leipzig, Germany |
(aged 74)
Nationality | German |
Known for | painting |
Notable work | Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, also known as Peasants' War Panorama |
Movement | Leipzig School, Magical Realism |
Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen.
Tübke's magnum opus, Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, has a size of 14 by 123 meters. It depicts a scene from the German Peasants' War, which took place from 1524 to 1525.