Neo Rauch’s characteristic style of surrealist elements combined with Socialist Realism influenced the young generation of Leipzig painters and established a new trend in painting. One can describe Rauch’s work as 60’s graphics of Eastern European origin, enlarged to a monumental scale. At first glance, these pictorial forms seem like a stock- take of socialist propaganda painting. However, upon closer inspection a multi- layered fantasy world, which avoids a definitive interpretation, is revealed. Above all, it is the power of imagination that stands out, which Rauch uses to turn the obvious and obscure, nameable and unnamable into dissonant unities, which should be emphasized as an integral quality.