As many as 50 paintings featuring the land and people of post-war Vietnam are being displayed at an exhibition which opened in Bad Doberan city in Germany's Mecklenburg Vorpommern state on September 28.
German visitors highly appreciated silk and oil paintings and woodblock prints by Vietnamese painter Pham Thi Doan Thanh. The paintings introduced them to Vietnam’s present-day life in urban and rural areas.
Joachim Skerl, a professor of arts who had lectured in Vietnam, described the paintings as vivid a demonstration of the war aftermath from which the Vietnamese people have suffered, as well as their aspirations for peace.
Dang Tran Cu, a counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany, praised the initiative to organise the exhibition. He said that it would make local people further understand and love Vietnam.
Painter Thanh, who is now living in Nuernberg city of Bavaria state, has exhibited her works in many countries worldwide.
The exhibition will run till November 17.
