To Each Their Own Reality: The Art of the FRG and the GDR at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1981

In 1981, two exhibitions of contemporary German art take place in succession at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The first, entitledArt Allemagne Aujourd’hui(Art Germany today), is organized by Suzanne Pagé and René Block at L’Arc and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and it embodies the recognition of German art of the second half of the twentieth century by French museums.¹ Alongside the works of Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Hanne Darboven, Palermo and Klaus Rinke, the exhibition presents paintings by Georg Baselitz, A. R. Penck, Markus