Description
Jörg Immendorf * 1945, Bleckede † 2007, Düsseldorf
3. October 1990
Execution: colour serigraphy, print: e.a.
Artist’s copy outside the edition of 100 numbered copies.
Date: 1998
Dimensions: image 104 x 81,5 cm / with frame 140 x 98,5 cm
Signature: Signed and dated lower right.
Framed: High-quality frame with museum glass by Reichert, a specialist frame builder
Provenance: Original work from private collection
He was a student of the stage designer, painter and graphic artist Teo Otto and the object artist and draughtsman Joseph Beuys. Immendorff was inspired by the works of the Italian painter Renato Guttuso. In 1977 Immendorff began his series Café Deutschland, based on his work Café Gréco. It deals with the division of Germany and its consequences for the art world and society. His working method characterises Immendorff as a representative of the post-avant-gardists.
In the second half of the 1970s he moved closer to the circle of the “Neue Wilden”.
In 1996 he became a professor in Düsseldorf and a year later was awarded the Marco Prize of the Monterrey Museum in Mexico, the most highly endowed art prize in the world. Jörg Immendorff creates paintings in a narrative, realistic style. He often integrates well-known people from the public, politics or art into his pictorial spaces. Quotations of works by other artists in Immendorff’s paintings, other references from art history are a characteristic feature in his work. In 1997 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. In the same year he accepts a guest professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin in the Chinese Republic. In 1999, his 25-metre-high sculpture “Elbquelle” was officially inaugurated in Riesa.
