Underground art: Germany’s buried trove of cold war paintings – in pictures

Our Processing Plant (Unsere Schachtanlage) by Heinz Zeuner, 1975

It may be surprising that a mining company in East Germany placed so much emphasis on supporting, promoting and collecting art. But due to its size, and the importance the Soviet Union put on developing nuclear weapons, the SDAG Wismut built an extensive network of infrastructure and services, including sports and culture, for its employees