Jiří Georg Dokoupil

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Jiří Georg Dokoupil, 2004

Jiří "Georg" Dokoupil (born June 3, 1954 in Krnov , Czechoslovakia ) is a German-Czech painter , draftsman and graphic artist . He is one of the representatives of the Junge Wilde of the 1980s.

Life

In 1968 the family fled from Czechoslovakia to Germany. From 1976 to 1978 Dokoupil studied art in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and in New York at the Cooper Union with the conceptual artist Hans Haacke . Since 1980 he and Walter Dahn , Hans Peter Adamski , Peter Bömmels , Gerard Kever and Gerhard Naschberger belong to the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit . The young artists shared a backyard studio in the “Mülheimer Freiheit” street in Cologne, which leads to the Rhine. In 1982 he had his first exhibition of collective pictures with Walter Dahn. In the same year he took part in documenta 7 in Kassel . 1983 to 1984 he held a teaching seat together with Walter Dahn at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1984 he was represented at Von hier aus - Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf . Dokoupil has been teaching at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, the Academy of Fine Arts, in Madrid since 1989. Because he does not have his own artistic signature, he is nicknamed "The Sphinx ".

Dokoupil lives and works in Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Plovdiv, Dakar and Las Palmas.

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Dokoupil has been painting his pictures without a brush since 1986. He uses different techniques and materials such as candles, car tires, paint sprays and soapy water. For his erotic work he uses breast milk and candle soot. More recent works have leopards, soap bubbles, children or whips as motifs. In 2003/2004 he was represented with works in the exhibition Obsessive Painting - A Review of the New Wild in Karlsruhe. In 2005 his exhibition “Painting in the 21st Century - Work Show 1981-2005” in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg received a lot of attention . It was shown in the National Gallery in Prague in 2006.

Dokoupil never wanted to be subordinated to a personal or fixed style. He never developed a uniform style that would make his works instantly recognizable as his own. Rather , he paraphrases different styles, plays with them and ceaselessly invents new techniques with which he experiments excessively. Only the certain expressivity and his affinity for eroticism can be emphasized as continuous characteristics in his work. His work today consists of over 60 so-called series and well over 100 different styles and techniques.

Series (selection)

  • Mülheimer Freiheit (1980–1981)
  • Blue Pictures About Love (1982)
  • New Cologne School (1982)
  • Documenta Pictures (1982)
  • Theoretical Images (1983)
  • Terrycloth Pictures (1983–1984)
  • The Apple Girl (1984)
  • Children's Pictures (1983–1985)
  • Corporations & Products (1985-1986)
  • Madonnas in Ecstasy (1985-1987)
  • Esoteric Images (1987)
  • Images of Christ (1986–1987)
  • Soot Pictures (1989-today)
  • Breast Milk Pictures (1989–1991)
  • Tire Pictures (1991–1992)
  • Soap Bubble Pictures (since 1992)
  • The Green Pictures (1996)
  • Slavic Images (1996-1999)
  • Pigment Pictures (1998–2002)
  • Whip Pictures (2002-2003)
  • Buddha images (2003-2004)
  • The Arrugadic Pictures (1999-2005)
  • Cinema Pictures (since 2007)

Solo exhibitions

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jiri Dokoupil 1954, CZ. ArtFacts.Net , accessed February 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Dokoupil, Jiří Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dokoupil, Georg (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist of Czech origin Junge Wilde
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Krnov