‘Gangster Trio’ by Johann Leschinkohl
About this activity.
From July 1 to July 31, 2026, Johann Leschinkohl, an artist from Berlin, is exhibiting a German mail art work at window gallery ‘De Prachtvink’ at the Vinkhuizen shopping center, Platinalaan 505a, 9743 GZ Groningen.
‘Gangster Trio’ is a collage of three drawings on labels (size 9.7 x 4.2 cm). The labels are pasted onto an existing postcard (10.5 x 14.8 cm) featuring a photograph by Michael Muennich from 2016. The drawings, almost more like doodles, were executed with a blue felt-tip pen. They represent three ‘gangsters’. The left and the right villains are depicted frontally, the middle thug is in profile. Leschinkohl makes skillful use of spatial composition, which reveals his expertise in printmaking. Each ‘gangster’ has his own background: waves, dots, and vertical lines. As ‘gangsters,’ the figures do not convince at first glance. They are primarily funny little characters that surely mean no harm, but just as in the real world, appearances are deceiving.
If you turn the card over, you discover that the artist has added a fourth gangster, the ‘Boss,’ in black felt-tip pen on the back – the negative side – of the card; he looks considerably more grumpy than his henchmen.
Johann Leschinkohl (born in Vukovar in 1948) is a painter, draftsman, and mail art artist based in Berlin. After training as a typesetter in Mainz, he founded the Mainzer Zondagsschilders. For many years, he worked in the graphic industry. In 1985, he moved to Berlin – Neukölln – where he managed the WUK printing press until 2018, meeting many artists along the way. In his work, he prefers felt-tip pens and wax crayons on various surfaces, but often on cardboard. His drawings are explosions of color with fantastic figures and bizarre arrangements. He calls his style ‘BULBRO’. Leschinkohl has since exhibited all over the world, primarily with his mail art contributions.
The window gallery is an exhibition space that can only be viewed from the outside, but 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The gallery is illuminated until 11:00 PM.
Every month, a new artwork by an artist is exhibited.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink is een 24-uurs galerie aan Platinalaan 505a bij Winkelcentrum Vinkhuizen. De galerie heeft als specialiteit internationale mail art.
Location.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink
Platinalaan 505
9743GZ Groningen
tel 050-2302991
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