Jörg Immendorff - vendere e comprare opere
14 June 1945, Bleckede (Germany) – 28 May 2007, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Jörg Immendorff is one of Germany’s best-known contemporary artists, not only due to his wide variety of artistic activities, including painting, sculpture, graphic design and performance art.
He studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf from 1963, studying stage design under Theo Otto for the first three semesters, and later art under Joseph Beuys. From 1968–1970 he created a sensation with his political art project LIDL, which finally provoked his expulsion from the academy in 1969. From 1976 onwards he created joint works with the artist A.R.Penck who was then living in the DDR. In 1977 Immendorf eventually made his international breakthrough with the 16-part large-scale series of paintings Cafe Deutschland.
Immendorf taught art from 1968–1981, and in the 1980s, he accepted several guest professorships from international universities including the Kunsthochschule Stockholm, Akademie der bildenden Künste Hamburg, 'Klasse F+F' Zürich, Werkschule Köln, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Städtelschule Frankfurt am Main, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Immendorf reflected on his relationship with modern art in his Café de Flore series (1987–1982). He also undertook scenography commissions, also for the Salzburg Festival.
From the 1970s onwards, Immendorf’s works were shown at many prestigious exhibitions, including the documenta in Kassel in 1972 and 1982, the 1976 Venice Biennale, and his work was shown in the travelling exhibition Expressions: New Art from Germany in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Oslo, Malmo and other cities from 1983–1984. Immendorf exhibited his most important work in the 1997 Deutschlandbilder exhibition in Berlin.
From 1997 onwards Immendorf suffered from the nervous disease ALS, from which he died in 2007.