Description
Jörg Immendorf: * 1945, Bleckede † 2007, Düsseldorf
Maleraffe
Execution: Lithography, 3 colours on hand-made paper
Date: 1993
Dimensions: sheet size 76 x 56 cm , motif size 68 x 48 cm
Signed: signed lower right and numbered: 25/66. numbered lower left, lower right Immendorff 93.
Provenance: Original work, 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 one 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 People’s Republic of China. In 1999, his 25-metre-high sculpture “Elbquelle” was officially inaugurated in Riesa.
