FRANKFURT.- From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings. After devoting himself to Tachist drawing in his beginnings, Schönebeck turned to figurative drawing and painting and was one of the first German artists to thematize the traumatic experiences of World War II. He created unique works combining the abstract and the figurative. In 1961 and 1962, he and Georg Baselitz pilloried the jaded bourgeois art world in their two “Pandemonic Manifestos”. In the mid-1960s, Schönebeck’s growing awareness of the Socialist intellectual world inspired the artist to create timeless portraits of various “Heroes of the East,” none of which were produced for propaganda purposes. In these pictures, Schönebeck not only examined the character and