About Jorg Immendorff - i want to be artist

Jörg Immendorff's paintings first came to international prominence in the 1970's. Having studied with Joseph Bueys in the 1960's, Immendorff approaches painting through a conceptualist stand-point; his works deal largely with the crisis of post-war German identity, a frenetic relationship with modernity, and a deep rooted faith in the role of the artist as an integral political and social force.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1945, Immendorff was of the generation that experienced post-war disillusionment that politicized every waking moment. As a student in the 1960s, he faced the task of examining Germany's tragic history and its fraught relationship with modernity. This forced him to devise a balancing act between eras.and Currently lives and works in Düsseldorf

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004
Jörg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist The Goldie Paley Gallery Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia;
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago

2003
Immendorff 'Weltnase' Aquarelle und Zeichnungen Kunstverein, Lippstadt Aualand Teil
1: 1965-1984 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Aualand Teil
2: 1985-2003 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

2002
Jörg Immendorff: Wenn das Bild zum Berg kommt China Millenium Monument, Beijing

2001
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Allen Dingen ist der Wechsel eigen Staatliches Russisches Museum, St Petersburg

2000
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

1999
Gl. Holtegaard/Breda-Fonden, Holte, Denmark
Museum Küppersmühle - Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg

1998
Muzeum Narodowe Warszawie, Warsaw
Kunstmuseum, Bonn

1997
Stadtgalerie Sundern
Maximilianverlag, Sabine Knust, Munich

1996
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Dresdner Kunstverein, Dresden

1995
Barbican Art Gallery, London

Bottom Line:

for Jörg Immendorff This period was also important to me because of the interaction between the older generation of artists and much younger ones, like Walter Dahn and Georg Jiri Dokoupil, two of the Cologne artists grouped around the Mulheimer Freiheit. They had just been featured in a show at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, "Zehn junge Kunstler aus Deutschland.

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