Eugen Schönebeck - "Paintings and Drawings - 1957-1966" - NYTimes.com 527 West 29th Street, Chelsea Through Saturday If Eugen Schönebeck's snarly drawings and voluptuous paintings of deformed human figures remind you of early works by the German Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz, there is a good reason. Mr. Schönebeck and Mr. Baselitz influenced each other as art school classmates in West Berlin in the late 1950s and early "60s. In 1961 they mounted their own two-person show, which they advertised in a flier - on view here - bearing a cheerfully venomous text titled "First Pandemonium (Manifesto)." It reads in part (in English translation): "No truck with those who can't wrap art up in a smell. I have no kind word to say to the amiable. Mr. Schönebeck's works exude the excitement of a young artist amid rebellious discovery. He drew homunculi in black ink lines on small sheets of paper as if he were a patient in a psychiatric hospital and painted sad lumps of humanity on canvas in loaded brush strokes in a viscerally sensuous style recalling the paintings of Chaim Soutine. Thus he lodged an exasperated, humanist protest against consumerist complacency and German art's obliviousness to postwar trauma. In the mid-"60s Mr. Schönebeck made portraits of revolutionaries like Lenin, Trotsky and Mao in a more realistic style, and a drawing of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky is on view here. In 1967, frustrated by the irreconcilability of his politics and the capitalist art market, Mr. Schönebeck abandoned his brief career. Mr. Baselitz, of course, started exhibiting his paintings upside down and went on to win fame and fortune.