Roma Aeterna (cappuccino)
Roma Aeterna (cappuccino)
Ralph Winkler was born in Dresden in 1939. He is one of the major exponents of the German neo-expressionist artistic movement. Much work of this Eastern German painter and print maker was smuggled to West Germany. Named after the geologist Albrecht Penck, he chooses A.R.Penck as synonym in 1968. In 1980 he moved to West Germany and at the moment he is living and working in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and New York.
With this illy collection set, Penck decorated the cups with ancient symbols like the spiral, the lion, the circle or the cross. These symbols accompanied humanity during its mysterious path from the very beginning, when man was still an ape, through evolution, right up to our times.
As you can see, there is a cappuccino prototype too! Like the espresso prototype, I don't know
why it was not produced. Maybe Peck had to choose only six cups, or maybe there were
plans to produce a limited 7th cup like the Facce Italiane and the Il Ballo sets.The six cups came in a three different gift boxes (all with two cups a brochure and a can of coffee).
| year | 1997 |
| artist |  A.R. Penck
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| type | - 6 cappuccino cups, signed and numbered |
| copies | x?x |
| manufacturer | 
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| inside | illy collection |
| bottom | |
| other editions | - amici collection, S/N |
| brochure |  |