Sabine Moritz: Lobeda

Sketched memories of modernist architecture from the artist's childhood

In Lobeda, first published in 2010, Sabine Moritz (born 1969) remembers her childhood in a prefab housing estate near Jena in 95 pencil drawings.
The Neulobeda district is a densely populated area characterised by high-rise concrete buildings and modernist urban planning. This urban landscape was to have a profound effect on the young Moritz, which would later manifest itself in her work. While studying at the Offenbach U...