Jörg Immendorff

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Jörg Immendorff (born June 14, 1945 in Bleckede ; † May 28, 2007 in Düsseldorf ) was a German artist ( painting , sculpture , graphics and action art ) and art professor. Immendorff has become one of the most famous contemporary German artists since the early 1980s.

life and work

School time and studies

Jörg Immendorff: Affenplastik , 2002, at GAP 15 in Düsseldorf , Immendorff, portraying himself as a painter monkey, on the hand of Beuys.

Immendorff was the son of an officer and a secretary. His parents separated when Immendorff was eleven years old, which he later described as the most formative experience of his childhood. As a boarding school student , he attended the Ernst-Kalkuhl-Gymnasium in Bonn-Oberkassel. In the 1960s he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, first stage design with Teo Otto and then from 1964 art with Joseph Beuys . Together with Chris Reinecke , whom he met in 1965, he founded the action project “ LIDL ” in 1968 . Immendorff caused a stir by tying a black, red and gold block to his leg during his first “LIDL” art campaign and walking up and down in front of the Bundestag until the police intervened. His provocative neo-Dadaist actions finally led to an expulsion from the academy in 1969. During and after his studies Immendorff was politically involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition (group "Tenant Solidarity" in Düsseldorf) and became a member of the Maoist KPD / AO , for which he designed leaflets. He was involved in the organizations related to this party, the National Vietnam Committee , League Against Imperialism and Association of Socialist Cultural Creators (VSK).

Free artist

From 1968 to 1981 Immendorff worked as an art teacher (from 1971 to 1981 at the Dumont-Lindemann-Hauptschule in Düsseldorf) before devoting himself entirely to fine art . In contrast to many other German painters who turned to non-representational art after 1945, he painted representational pictures with politically and socially critical content from an early age. This group of works with bold pictures from the early 1970s appears under the name " Agitprop ". In 1972 he took part in documenta 5 in Kassel with a selection of such paintings .

Eventually Immendorff became the representative of a new history painting in Germany. In 1976 he took part in the Venice Biennale , in a group exhibition in the Ex-Cantieri navali. There he distributed a speech in which he protested for international artist exchanges and against the anti-democratic system in the GDR. In the same year a friendship began with the artist AR Penck, who at that time still lived in the GDR and was officially frowned upon there . In joint work they addressed the German-German question. Immendorff is best known for a series of 16 large-format pictures entitled “ Café Germany ”. The figurative scenes take place in a stage-like space and were inspired by Renato Guttuso's “Caffè greco”. The Düsseldorf discotheque “ Revolution ” served as a model for the rooms in the “Café Deutschland” pictures , whose fictional political and cultural guests symbolize the East-West conflict of the time . Immendorff picks up the motif of the lively interior in a similar way between 1987 and 1992 in a further series of pictures, this time showing the premises of the Parisian coffee house Café de Flore and which is also named after it. In these works Immendorff presents himself in different roles and moves in a community of intellectuals and artists. In 1982 Immendorff was represented at Zeitgeist and with the sculpture Brandenburger Tor at documenta 7 , and in 1984 at the exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf . In the same year he opened the “La Paloma” bar in St. Pauli and created a sculpture by Hans Albers . For a while he was close to some of the “ Junge Wilde ” painters who saw him as their role model. At the time, he was a guest lecturer at the Cologne factory schools . Immendorff was also responsible for a number of stage designs , for example for the Salzburg Festival . In his set designs for Stravinski's The Rake's Progress , he used motifs by William Hogarth in a self-deprecating manner . He was also involved in the artistic design of the “Luna Luna” amusement park by André Heller (1987). In 1988 Immendorff designed the title and interior of the first edition of the cultural newspaper Lettre International . In 1989 he received a professorship at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main , and from 1996 he was professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In addition to his pictures, Immendorff also created expressive sculptures . Immendorff also portrayed Gerhard Schröder for the Chancellor Gallery in the Federal Chancellery and illustrated the BILD Bible, which its editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann presented in 2006 at the Leipzig Book Fair . Immendorff's paintings audacity cause depends for many years in the office of Wolfgang Schäuble .

Sickness and death

On May 28, 2007 Immendorff succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal nervous disease from which he had suffered since 1997. On November 23, 2005, after an hour of emergency medical treatment, he was admitted to the Düsseldorf University Clinic. Due to a weakening of the respiratory function, an incision was made in the trachea as an access for mechanical ventilation . In the months before his death, Immendorff was unable to move his arms and legs in the typical course of ALS. His attending physician, the neurologist Thomas Meyer at the Berlin Charité , announced that the cause of death was assumed to be cardiac arrest caused by the disease; According to Immendorff's request, attempts to resuscitate were dispensed with.

Immendorff died at the age of 61. He leaves behind his 27-year-old widow, Oda Jaune , their daughter and son from a previous relationship with the Düsseldorf fashion designer Marie-Josephine Lynen .

On June 14, 2007, the day Immendorff would have turned 62, a funeral service for the painter took place in the Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island in Berlin . Gerhard Schröder gave a personal speech in which he remembered various trips with him and the last meeting in the Düsseldorf studio in March 2007.

On the first anniversary of his death, the portrait “Ich, Immendorff” shot by Nicola Graef in the last two years of his life came into the cinemas. A short version of 45 minutes was already published in 2007, the cinema version is 98 minutes. Actions from his everyday professional life (painting, teaching, organizing exhibitions) are shown and how he was able to implement them with helpers, because the disease paralyzed him more and more. There are also interviews with his wife, mother, friends and guests.

At the end of July 2008 it became known that Immendorff may also have “sold copies of his pictures as his own works” (see also self-plagiarism ).

The first biography about him was published in September 2010 (see here ).

Development since 1998

Cast steel sculpture "Elbquelle" (1999) in Riesa

Since about 1998 Immendorff changed his style and his subject matter. According to his own statement, he now freed his paintings from the narrative tinsel in order to come to a purer painting . In front of monochrome backgrounds, sometimes black, but mostly pastel colors, he places mysterious figures and ciphers that lead to Immendorff's own iconography. He borrows from older art. He borrowed one of his new leitmotifs from Hans Baldung Grien . A naked woman's feet are tied to balls. To keep her balance (or to move?), She leans on a crutch and a stick. Immendorff has transferred the traditional image of " Fortuna " into a world of its own. Perhaps this unstable figure is a sign of uncertainty and change.

More puzzling motifs known from art history appear on the more recent pictures, which appear surreal, such as the labyrinth , the Babylonian tower and a globe with eight allegorical figures based on an engraving by Jacques de Gheyn , who wrote in 1596/97 under the motto “Allen Change is inherent in things ”. This globe replaces the head of some figures, also on Immendorff's self-portrayals . Perhaps this is an indication of the artist's attitude towards life, who has repeatedly changed and questioned his style and his artistic statements. This also points to the shift away from politically motivated topics towards a landscape of motifs that reflected the questions of art in later years. Art quotations find a place especially in Immendorff's late work. The reason for this is on the one hand his interest in art history, which has accompanied him throughout his creative phase, on the other hand he had to find a method that made it possible to continue his work despite his worsening illness. Immendorff made himself a "composer": He described to his assistants how the works should look and they then had to carry out the instructions. Logically, falling back on an existing repertoire - art history - is suitable for this.

As an artist, Immendorff skillfully used the mass media to promote his image . The wedding with his partner, Bulgarian Oda Jaune , who was over thirty years his junior [a stage name given to her by Immendorff: Oda comes from the old German and means valuable treasure and Jaune reflects Immendorff's favorite color - yellow] became a media event in 2000 hyped. On August 18, 2003, however, the artist hit negative headlines because of a drug affair . There is evidence that he consumed large amounts of cocaine with prostitutes on August 16, 2003 and on several other dates in the suite of a luxury hotel in Düsseldorf . The artist himself admitted using cocaine since the early 1990s. On August 4, 2004, the Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced him to 11 months' imprisonment for cocaine possession. The sentence was suspended on probation. a. with the requirement to pay 150,000 euros to various charitable organizations. Immendorff was thus able to keep his civil servant status and his professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, which he would have lost under civil service law if he had been imprisoned for a year or more. At the end of October 2003, he was officially released from his position as a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. At the beginning of November 2004, however, the suspension as professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy was lifted again. Immendorff was then allowed to teach again.

Jörg Immendorff founded the ALS initiative at the Charité Berlin with a "grant to research the cause and therapy of ALS". He made several of his own works of art available to charitable institutions. In 2000, he dedicated his largest glass painting to the Dresden residential project COSIMA for wheelchair users, where he immortalized his “good spirits” on nine safety glass panels in the format 90 × 144 cm for the planking of the bridge gallery. In memory of the deceased and in support of the ALS outpatient clinic, the “Immendorff Initiative” presented works of art from the UDK students' class of Valérie Favre , master students of Jörg Immendorff, Academy Vienna in November 2007 in the “Kunsthof” at Oranienburger Strasse 27 in Berlin Specialist class Daniel Richter and HGB Leipzig, specialist class Neo Rauch exhibited and auctioned in a "silent auction".

From September 23, 2005 to January 22, 2006 he was honored with a comprehensive solo exhibition in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which was named Male Lago. Immendorff is also committed to the non-profit gallery fiftyfifty .

On October 7, 2006, Immendorff was awarded the “ Kaiserring ” of the city of Goslar for his art. According to the jury's justification, art is “not an end in itself” for Immendorff, but rather its “direct social impact”.

Doubts about original works

In 2008, the gallery owner and executor of Immendorff's will, Michael Werner , issued a warning that the art trade also contained works by Immendorff that did not come from Immendorff's hand. These works are said to have made assistants according to Immendorff's ideas. Immendorff then provided it with his signature according to the gallery owner's representation .

In the summer of 2007, the widow and heiress Oda Jaune filed a criminal complaint with Michael Werner regarding an alleged forgery. The painting in question, entitled "Ready-Made d'histoire dans Café de Flore", was to be auctioned at a renowned auction house. The Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office investigated in detail, but found no evidence that would indicate a forgery or a criminal act. The proceedings were discontinued without charge and the plaintiff was referred to private prosecution. Experts interpret the counterfeit debate as a market dispute between gallery owners that could not be substantiated with facts. So far, there have been no further advertisements, nor have any other works of art by Immendorff by Michael Werner been officially classified as forgeries. As a result of the falsification allegations, there was not a single documented case of falsification.

Posthumous reception

A first Immendorff biography was published in autumn 2010. The author is Hans Peter Riegel , a long-time companion and confidante of Immendorff. The book focuses on Immendorff's life until around 1985.

Riegel explains his need for recognition and the struggle for recognition as a result of his youth. The parents separated when he was eleven; he couldn't get over that. He found the coveted superfather in his teacher Joseph Beuys , the supermother temporarily in his fellow student Chris Reinecke. His artistic gifts were mediocre. The tough guy - first in a leather suit, then in a double-breasted suit - was not as confident as he was.

“He could be very cold at the beginning of a conversation. But the man, who just appeared as a know-it-all, was soon able to become a doubter and admit that he is not very familiar with politics to judge whether Gerhard Schröder's gentle treatment of authoritarian states like Russia or China is right or not is wrong. Even in the face of criticism of his work, Immendorff was by no means inaccessible to the public. "

Tilman Spengler published a novel in 2015 about his friend Jörg Immendorff ( Daring attempt to stick in the air ).

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2001 retrospective , State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2002 retrospective in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin
  • 2003 Aualand Part 1: 1965–1984 , Contemporary Fine Arts
  • 2003 Aualand Part 2: 1985–2003 , Contemporary Fine Arts
  • 2004 The graphic work , Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof Paderborn (traveling exhibition)
  • 2005 High Plains Drifter , Contemporary Fine Arts
  • 2005 The graphic work , Heidenheim Art Museum
  • 2005 The graphic work , municipal gallery, Paderborn
  • 2005 Male Lago , National Gallery, Berlin
  • 2005 figure / sculpture , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2006 Jörg Immendorff, Kaiserring-holder of the city of Goslar 2006 Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
  • 2007 Jörg Immendorff. Drawings 1960 - 2003 , Museum Kunst Palast , Düsseldorf
  • 2007 A Tribute - 35 Years of the Essl Collection , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2007 Passion for Art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2007 The monkey and me , Municipal Museum Hofheim am Taunus
  • 2008 graphics and sculptures , municipal gallery Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
  • 2008 Complete graphic works and sculptures , CCH Hamburg
  • 2008 Jörg Immendorff - What painting can mean to us , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2009 Man, painter, visionary - from his graphic work , Gelnhausen
  • 2010 CORSO. Works from the Essl Collection in Dialogue , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2011 ANIMAL FESTIVAL - An exhibition for children , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2012: Baselitz - Immendorff - Schönebeck from the collection of the Deutsche Bank Exhibition in the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn
  • 2013 Jörg Immendorff - Affentheater , City Gallery Klagenfurt
  • 2014 Jörg Immendorff - prints , Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin .
  • 2018 Jörg Immendorff - Graphics , Rathausgalerie Balingen
  • 2018 For all loved ones in the world , House of Art Munich
  • 2019 Jörg Immendorff - Ichich, Ichihr, Ichwir. We All Have to Die , Fondazione Querini Stampalia , Venice.

Works in collections and as sculptures

Denmark

Germany

France

Canada

Netherlands

Norway

Austria

Portugal

Switzerland

United States

United Kingdom

Discography

literature

  • Jörg Immendorff: I dans café de flor. ed. from Galerie Michael Werner. Cologne 1990.
  • Immendorff: Painting 1983–1990. ed. from the City of Esslingen Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Vienna. Esslingen, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-923717-66-0 .
  • Jörg Immendorff in conversation with Pamela Kort . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1993, 91 pp., Ill., ISBN 3-462-02124-9 .
  • Jörg Immendorff: picture with patience. Wolfsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89322-844-6 .
  • Jörg Immendorff: Change is inherent in all things. , ed. Jozef Kiblickij, Palace Edition, Bad Breisig 2001, ISBN 3-935298-18-8 .
  • Large figures - Immendorff, Lüpertz, Penck , Peter Joch, ed. Von Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Verlag Edition Braus im Wachter-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89904-006-7 .
  • Eva Karcher: Punk among dandies - Jörg Immendorff. In: Artinvestor , H. 4, 2005, pp. 40–48, ill. (Color)
  • Jörg Immendorff: When the picture comes to the mountain. Edited by Dirk Geuer, Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 2005, ISBN 3-87448-245-6 .
  • Helga Meister: We have to allow gratitude and early amazement again. Jörg Immendorff - a conversation. In: Art and Play. Kunstforum international, Vol. 178, 2005, pp. 268-277, ISSN  0177-3674 .
  • Jörg Immendorff: the graphic work. ed. u. a. by Beate Reifenscheid, Geuer and Breckner, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-939452-00-9 .
  • Jörg Immendorff: Sculptures, 1986–2005. Geuer & Breckner, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-939452-07-2 .
  • Jörg Immendorff, draw. Works from his archive. On the occasion of the exhibition Jörg Immendorff. Drawings 1960 - 2003, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf 2007. With an essay by Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann. Cologne: König 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-321-0 .
  • Munzinger , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 40/2007 of October 6, 2007 (rw)
  • Jörg Immendorff. What painting can mean to us , exhibition catalog Essl Museum (25 January to 20 April 2008), ed. from Edition Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902001-41-2 , (German and English. 128 pages with numerous colored illustrations. With texts by Karlheinz Essl and Tayfun Belgin)
  • Hans Peter Riegel : Jörg Immendorff. The biography , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-02723-0 .
  • Anette Hüsch [ed.]: Jörg Immendorff - Male Lago. König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-997-X .
  • Danuta Folga-Januszewska: "Selected Signs, Symbols and Myths of Jörg Immendorff". In: Danuta Folga-Januszewska [Ed.]: Jörg Immendorff - znaki, symbole i wizje - signs, symbols and visions. Warszawa 1998. pp. 59-98.

Movies

  • Through the night with ... Jörg Immendorff & Christoph Schlingensief . Documentation, Germany, 2004, 64 min., Director: Edda Baumann-von Broen, production: arte , first broadcast: ZDF , June 1, 2004.
  • Gero von Boehm meets… Jörg Immendorff. Interview, 2006, summary by 3sat
  • I. Immendorff. Documentation, Germany, 2007, 98 min., Director: Nicola Graef, first broadcast: October 9, 2008, synopsis from WDR .

Web links

Commons : Jörg Immendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Guest in Café Germany" , Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 28, 2007
  2. ↑ On the death of Jörg Immendorff - memory of a 'Kalkuhl student' ( Memento of the original from March 17th, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alt.kalkuhl.de
  3. ↑ Christos M. Joachimides, Helmut R. Leppien (ed.): Art in political struggle. Challenge - claim - reality. Exhibition cat. Kunstverein Hannover 1973, pp. 4–5.
  4. ^ Veit Görner, Long March on Pictures. In: Jörg Immendorff - image with patience. Exhibition cat. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 1996, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Hans Peter Riegel , Immendorff- Die Biographie, Berlin 2010, p. 125
  6. ↑ Walter Grasskamp: The long march through the illusions. Munich 1995, p. 125
  7. ↑ See Bazon Brock: "The staged life - life as a work of art". In: Art of Living in the 21st Century , ed. from the Heinz-Nixdorf-MuseumsForum, Paderborn, 2003, 17.
  8. ↑ Bild-Bundesausgabe, October 1, 2015, p. 4.
  9. ↑ NZZ : “Painter Jörg Immendorff succumbs to incurable nervous disease” , May 28, 2007
  10. ↑ painter Jörg Immendorff cremated ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monstersandcritics.de
  11. ↑ "Jörg Immendorff - his wild life as an artist" ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Picture , May 28, 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bild.t-online.de
  12. ^ "One last greeting" , dpa / Tagesspiegel , June 14, 2007
  13. ↑ “Moving funeral service for Jörg Immendorff” , Die Welt, June 14, 2007
  14. ^ "Cocaine affair: Immendorff expresses shame in front of family" ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AFP / 123recht.net, August 24, 2003  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.123recht.net
  15. ↑ Die Welt : “Funeral Service - Friends say goodbye to Jörg Immendorf” , June 14, 2007
  16. ^ Spiegel Online : "Suspected fraud: Immendorff is said to have sold counterfeits" , July 30, 2008
  17. ^ Welt am Sonntag, October 3, 2010: State artist and painter prince. - First biography about Jörg Immendorff published
  18. ↑ Danuta Folga-Januszewska: "Selected Signs, Symbols to the Myths of Jörg Immendorff". In: Danuta Folga-Januszewska [Ed.]: Jörg Immendorff - znaki, symbole i wizje - signs, symbols and visions. Warszawa 1998. pp. 59-98.
  19. ↑ Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann: Drawing what doesn't belong there. In: Jörg Immendorff - Draw, Draw. Cologne 2008, p. 242.
  20. ↑ Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann: Drawing what doesn't belong there. In: Jörg Immendorff - Draw, Draw. Cologne 2008, p. 245.
  21. ↑ welt.de: Chancellor portrait of Immendorff, despite illness
  22. ↑ zeit.de: »That's a thing«
  23. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: What are the works worth?
  24. ↑ spiegel.de of November 10, 2004: Immendorff is allowed to teach again
  25. ↑ als-charite.de
  26. ↑ Benefit exhibition and silent auction for the benefit of the ALS Immendorff initiative ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kunst.labels-pr.com
  27. ↑ Anette Hüsch [Ed.]: Jörg Immendorff - Male Lago. Cologne 2005.
  28. ↑ The Goslarer Kaiserring 2006 goes to Jörg Immendorff  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 584 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.moenchehaus.de  
  29. ^ "Original or forgery?" FAZ , August 12, 2008
  30. ↑ dradio.de
  31. ↑ Bertream Müller in a book review in the Rheinische Post from October 9, 2011 rp-online.de
  32. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  33. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 22, 2014.
  34. ↑ Jörg Immendorff: For all loved ones in the world
  35. ↑ Fondazione Querini Stampalia: Jörg Immendorff: Ichich, Ichihr, Ichwir / We All Have to Die: May 8 - November 24, 2019. Accessed June 21, 2019 .
  36. ^ Through the night with… Jörg Immendorff & Christoph Schlingensief , avantimedia.de
  37. ↑ Review: “Documentation. Jörg Immendorff's last hours ” , Die Welt, May 22, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Immendorff, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bleckede near Lüneburg
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2007
Place of death Dusseldorf