Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

 Author - Brian Hawkeswood                        Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. At the foot of the Erzgebirge , beneath the forests and hills once alive with medieval silver mines , a different kind of gold was extracted in the postwar years— Uranium , the lifeblood of Soviet military ambition. Between 1946 and 1990, the uranium mining enterprise known as Wismut operated as a semi-autonomous behemoth under Soviet-East German control. It was an industry of secrecy, danger, and immense geopolitical weight. And yet, behind the cooling towers and the irradiated slag heaps, a surprisingly idealistic phenomenon emerged: Wismut became one of the largest art patrons in East Germany, amassing over 4,000 artworks by more than 450 artists, most of them produced on commission. Today, this collection is locked away in a depot in Chemnitz , largely unseen by the public, and known only to art historians and the occ...