Mural in the foyer POT81 (Audimax) by Alfred Hesse and Erich Gerlach
Table of contents
The artists
Mural "Wilhelm Pieck speaks to students" and further information on the artwork and the artists Alfred Hesse and Erich Gerlach.
Photo documentation of the inauguration
Photographs of the inauguration of the mural on 15.01.1955 can be found in the Deutsche Fotothek collection. There is also documentation of Alfred Hesse addressing the guests.
Archive documents and newspaper clippings about the mural
Reference list for the mural (as of 2025)
Minutes of consultation from 17.04.1953
Letter from Hesse + Gerlach to the construction management dated 01.07.1954
Karl Kröner report on the mural dated 29.12.1954
Correspondence on the handover/inauguration of the mural 01/1955
List of press representatives invited to the inauguration dated 13/01/1955
Excerpt from the chronicle of the "Friedrich List" Dresden University of Transport with entry on the inauguration on 15.01.1955
Sächsische Neueste Nachrichten from 18.01.1955
The Union from 18.01.1955
Sächsisches Tageblatt from 21.01.1955
Explanations on the motif of the mural - in: Monika Gibas and Peer Pasternack, Sozialistisch behaust & bekunstet. Universities and their buildings in the GDR. Leipziger Universitätsverlag 1999, p. 235
Illustration and inclusion in the catalog - in: Susanne Jaschko: Selbstbildnis und Selbstverständnis in der Malerei der SBZ/DDR von 1945 bis in die achtziger Jahre. Dissertation at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 1999, p. 97, p. 208, p. 220
Mural of the HfV - in: Inge Haberland, Architektur und baubezogene Kunst im Dienste der neuen Gesellschaft, dissertation at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden 2010, chapter 3.4.2, p. 65 ff.
Mural by Alfred Hesse and Günther Gerlach restored in the Potthoff Building - in: Newsletter of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections at TU Dresden No. 4, 10/2012
Open Monument Day on 14.09.2014 Topic: Color - in: Supplement Sächsische Zeitung from 11.09.2014 (Bernhard Sterra)
Mural with photo and description in the documentary volume "Sammlungen und Kunstbesitz der TU Dresden" - publisher: Rector of TU Dresden, project manager: Dr. Klaus Mauersberger 2015, cf. reference to this publication in the University Journal of 17.11.2015, p. 8
Building-related art in the public space of the GDR (review of the architectural guide by Martin Maleschka and others with reference to the mural in front of POT81) - in: Baunetzwoche #526 from 20.12.2018 (Friederike Meyer)
Exhibitions related to the mural
Photo exhibition Berlin "Change of Perspectives, Sieben Positionen zeitgenössischer Architekturfotografie" 11.03. - 21.04.2016 (mural is shown in the background) - at: Aedes Architecture Forum( to be seenonline with changing images on the website) from 01.03.2016
Departure and new beginnings. Exhibition on acquisitions and commissioned works from the 1950s. The Art Collection of the TU Dresden 04.05. - 06.07.2018 - in: Exhibition flyer (Gwendolin Kremer)
Touring exhibition "70 Years of Art in Architecture in Germany" from 13.01.2021 - Joint project of the Federal Ministry of Building and the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning 2020, Dr. Ute Chibidziura and Michael Kasiske, Department A 2 - Project Development, Competitions, Grant Construction