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Dated and signed '1939 Kleint' in turquoise lower right. “The ‘Mauerbild’ of 1939 documents a new expressive will. The visual elements appear to have been scattered across the picture plane casually, seemingly randomly: the multitude of circles and circular rings, accompanied by colour scales, striped patterns, motifs related to fans, arcs and sickles, etc. This is the first time it becomes possible to grasp a characteristic feature of Kleint’s works, one that would define many of his subsequent pictures: “multi-pictorality”, the overabundance of pictorial elements which each lay fresh claim to our gaze and challenge it to take on a different attitude, shifting between close-ups and distant views, concentration and expansion. The ground of the picture is exceptionally nuanced, at some points resembling a weathered wall (thus the title!); towards the bottom, it disappears behind an irregularly protruding, grainy-brown earth zone” (Lorenz Dittmann, Vortrag anlässlich der akademischen Gedenkveranstaltung für Prof. Dr. Boris Kleint, 17 April 1997, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken, in: Mitteilungen 1997, Laboratorium, Institut für aktuelle Kunst im Saarland, Saarlouis 1997, pp. 12 f.).