Sie haben die Macht (Mietersolidarität)
1970
Painting, 29 x 21 cm.
Materials: felt-tip pen and aquarel on paper
From the early 1970s onwards, Chris Reinecke operated within newly established platforms for political agitation: Büro Olympia, which had emerged from the earlier LIDL-activities, Selbsthilfe Wohnen and its successor Mietersolidarität Düsseldorf. From then on, Reinecke focused exclusively on the design of militant ‘posters’ to be displayed in the windows of their office on Neubrückstrasse. They are made in the style of the ROSTA posters of the Russian poet and artist Mayakovsky, dealing with current socio-political issues that revolve around power relations in the state. Like her Russian example, Reinecke strived for a closely interwoven combination of image and text. Reinecke called for solidarity against the status quo of power, money and property. This visual language is related to the paintings of Jörg Immendorff from that time, which will later be museumised as an example of ‘agitprop’ painting.
