Vier Dialektiker, posierend 1982

"Vier Dialektiker, posierend," created in 1982 by Siegfried Zademack, is a painting that depicts four figures, three of whom have their mouths open and their tongues extended as if in a bizarre performance. The figures are dressed in revealing clothing, and the overall composition is suggestive and unsettling. The painting’s title, “Four Dialecticians Posing,” may refer to the figures’ exaggerated poses and expressions, which seem to mock the conventions of traditional portraiture. The painting's surrealism and eroticism are reminiscent of the works of artists such as Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon, and it is a testament to Zademack’s skill as a figurative painter.