The Work Gemeinsamer Versuch 91/06 (Joint Attempt 91/06), completed in 1991/92, belongs to Einhoff’s series of paintings that take scenes of manual labour as a point of departure. Two bent figures are shown engaged in an unspecified task, reaching into a box or container in the foreground while a sloping, indistinct landscape stretches behind them. Their faces and garments are overlaid with coarse pigment and grains of sand, giving the bodies a corroded, flaking appearance, as if they emerged from the ground only to sink back into it.Acrylic, charcoal and sand are layered and scraped across the canvas, creating a relief-like surface in which contours alternately sharpen and dissolve. The title, “Gemeinsamer Versuch” – “joint attempt” – does not narrate a specific story, but evokes a shared effort and a shared burden. Individual identity recedes: what remains are almost identical postures and repetitive gestures, hinting at disciplined bodies and anonymous collective experience in modern society. The raw materiality and muted tones endow the work with a quiet yet intense psychological charge, suggesting not only the moment of work itself but also a deeper sense of alienation and exhaustion.