Screaming Stallion by Jo Jastram (1986)

"Two versions exist of Jastram's literally towering horse sculpture, perhaps the most impressive animal sculpture in GDR sculpture. A smaller "Screaming Stallion" from the 1970s, more rounded, less jagged, was exhibited at the IX GDR Art Exhibition ...". (Source (translated): https://retraceblog.wordpress.com/ 2019/05/05/horse-and-despair/)

The horse sculpture dates from 1986, but was not erected in Neu-Hohenschönhausen until 1992. In 1981, the artist made a very similar horse, also as a "symbol for every maltreated creature", which has been standing in his home town of Rostock since 2014.

Jo Jastrams was a very important and thoroughly controversial and critical artist in the GDR, but he did not see himself as "political". From 1980 to 1986, Jo Jastram was a lecturer and professor of sculpture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.