- 1982
- Karla Sachse
Joseph W. Huber (1951 - 2002) was a trained printer and for a time part of Robert Rehfeldt's drawing circle. He cultivated a wide network of international mail art contacts from East Berlin, through which his partner Karla Sachse also found connections to mail art networks. In the 1980s, Joseph W. Huber mainly produced satirical posters and postcards that often commented critically on the political system of the GDR. They were exhibited in 2007 under the title Joseph W. Huber - Denk-Zettel aus'm Osten by the Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in Weserburg (the title can roughly be translated as "lessons taught from the East"). Since that same year, Joseph W. Huber's legacy is also being kept in the archive of the Akademie der Künste, which contains postal communication from a total of 83 mail artists and cultural institutions from 18 countries. Huber's own Mai Art collection is kept in the Mail Art Archive of Staatliches Museum Schwerin. The entry on Joseph W. Huber in the Mail Art Index can be viewed here: https://mailartists.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/joseph-w-huber/.