Jörg Immendorff
* 1945 † 2007
Jörg Immendorff was born on June 14, 1945, in Bleckede near Lüneburg. He is a student of the stage designer, painter, and graphic artist Teo Otto, as well as the object artist and draughtsman Joseph Beuys. Immendorff draws groundbreaking inspiration from the works of the Italian painter Renato Guttuso. In reference to Guttuso’s work “Café Gréco,” Immendorff’s series “Café Deutschland” begins in 1977. It deals with the division of Germany and its consequences for the art world and society. Immendorff characterizes his working method as that of a representative of the post-avant-garde.
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In the second half of the seventies, he approached the circle of the “Neue Wilden”.
From 1996, he became a professor in Düsseldorf and received the Marco Prize of the Monterrey Museum in Mexico a year later, the world’s most highly endowed art prize.
Jörg Immendorff realizes a painting in a narrative, realistic style. He often integrates well-known people from public life, politics, or art into his pictorial spaces. Quotations from works by other artists in Immendorff’s paintings, other references from art history, are a characteristic feature of his work.
In 1997, he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. In the same year, he took on a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin in the People’s Republic of China. In 1999, his 25-meter-high sculpture “Elbquelle” was officially inaugurated in Riesa.
Jörg Immendorff died on May 28, 2007, as a result of his illness.
Painting/Editions
Maleraffe
3. Oktober 1990
