New savages
As Neue Wilde or New Violent artists are called, which occurred in the early 1980s with a subjective, reckless and life-affirming painting in Germany and Austria to the public.
They were named after the French Fauves , who caused a stir in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.
etymology
The style has its origins in the early 1980s in the Italian transavant-garde ( Transavanguardia , later also called Arte Cifra ) and established itself almost simultaneously in Europe and the USA . In France it was defined as Figuration Libre and in English-speaking countries as New Image Painting , Bad Painting or Wild Style . In Germany and Austria, the term “ Neo-Expressionism ” was first used, and later there was talk of “Heftiger” or “Wilder” painting. The most media-effective and ultimately most common term "Neue Wilde" was first used by the expressionism expert, art historian and Aachen museum director Wolfgang Becker for an exhibition at the Neue Galerie - Ludwig Collection in Aachen 1980 "Les Nouveaux Frauves - Die neue Wilde" and their catalog, the new Acquired works from the Peter Ludwig Collection from Germany, France and the USA: Baselitz, Lüpertz, Penck, Viallat, Schnabel, Pattern Painting. In the retrospective "The Invention of the New Wild" of the Ludwig Forum 2018, the term style is used exclusively for the younger German painters in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Hamburg and their cultural environment.
Stylistic characteristics
The main characteristics of the art direction are large-format pictures with an accentuated painting style and purposeful formlessness, lively and violent brushstrokes, strong colors and color balance. The result is expressively abstract, sensual representational, neon-bright images interspersed with graffiti elements.
The images arise from the individual feelings of their protagonists and their need for self-expression. Elementary topics - e.g. B. Fear and sexuality - stylistically encounter them spontaneously and obsessively.
Origins
The starting point for the young artists was the intention to throw the barren, top-heavy styles that dominated the 70s completely overboard and “carefree to replace them with an abundance of imagery, narration, materials, colors and free-flowing spaces, more like kindergarten than tastes like an aesthetic laboratory. ” With their art and their art they wanted to free themselves from the repressive constraints of the intellect of the art of the past decade. Her works are a commentary on the standardized values of bourgeois ideas. In their often dark-toned pictures, they revolted against the prosperity-related apathy of the 1980s. In the tradition of Dada and Fluxus , work was carried out to dismantle the traditional concept of art.
Representatives of the New Wild
In the 1980 catalog: Nicolas Africano, Laurie Anderson, Georg Baselitz, Louis Cane, Brad Davis, Donna Dennis, Frank Faulkner, Adolf Frohner, Tina Girouard, Horst Gläsker, Simon Hantai, Jörg Immendorff, Hannes Jähn , Valerie Jaudon, Neil Jenney, Anselm Kiefer, Christopher Knowles, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Markus Lüpertz, Kim MacConnel, AR Penck, Susan Rothenberg, Peter Saari, Miriam Schapiro, Kendall Shaw, Med Smyth, Claude Viallat, William Wegman, Robert Zakanitch, Joe sugar
- Berlin: Bernd Koberling , Luciano Castelli , Rainer Fetting , Helmut Middendorf , Salomé , Bernd Zimmer , Elvira Bach , Anne Jud, Berthold Schepers, GL Gabriel-Thieler , Rolf von Bergmann , Peter Robert Keil .
- Dresden: AR Penck
- Düsseldorf: Moritz Reichelt , Albert Oehlen , Markus Oehlen , Martin Kippenberger , Werner Büttner , Horst Gläsker , Hartmut Ritzerfeld , Franz-Bernd Becker , Bernhard Martin
- Cologne: Hans Peter Adamski , Peter Bömmels , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Leiko Ikemura , Gerard Kever , Dieter Horký , Gerhard Naschberger , Stefan Szczesny , Volker Tannert
- Southern Germany: Franz Hitzler , Siegfried Kaden, Peter Vogt, Troels Wörsel, Peter Angermann
- Austria: Siegfried Anzinger , Erwin Bohatsch , Herbert Brandl , Gunter Damisch , Alois Mosbacher , Thomas Reinhold , Hubert Scheibl , Hubert Schmalix , Beate Schreiter-Radel
- Switzerland: Martin Disler , Aleks Weber , Tarcisi Cadalbert
- Poland : Andrzej Cisowski , Urszula Danielewska-Wietecka
Exhibitions (selection)
- Les Nouveaux Fauves - The New Wilds , Aachen 1980
- Rundschau Deutschland , edited and organized by Stefan Szczesny and Troels Wörsel , Munich and Cologne, 1981
- The picture book , Edition Pfefferle, Munich, 1981 (today Galerie Karl Pfefferle )
- Zeitgeist , Berlin, 1982
- Obsessive painting - A look back at the new wild ones , Karlsruhe, 2003/04
- Geniale Dilletanten , 2015, Haus der Kunst , Munich
- The Invention of the New Wild - Painting and Subculture around 1980 , Ludwig Forum , Aachen, 2018/19
See also
literature
- Florian Steininger : Neue Wilde: A Development / A Progression. Edition Essl Collection , 2004, ISBN 3-902001135
- Götz Adriani : Obsessive painting. A look back at the new wild ones. Hatje Cantz Verlag , Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7757-9179-5
- Heinrich Klotz : The new savages in Berlin. Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-76159-4
- Online version of the exhibition catalog "Rundschau Deutschland"
- Benjamin Dodenhoff, Ramona Heinlein (ed.): The invention of the new wild ones. Painting and subculture around 1980 , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3960985709
- Donald Kuspit , Szczesny: Neue Wilden works from the 80s. Szczesny Factory & Publishing GmbH Berlin, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-9813406-8-6
- Stefan Szczesny , painter about painting , DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1989 ISBN 9783770123308
Movie
- Martin Kippenberger and Co - a document , documentary by Jacqueline Kaess-Farquet about the new wild ones: Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Georg Herold, Werner Büttner, Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Volker Tannert.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Rosenblum: Thoughts on the sources of the Zeitgeist. In: Zeitgeist. International Art Exhibition Berlin 1982 , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1981, p. 11.
- ↑ Roderich Fabian: "Geniale Dilletanten". Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst ( Memento from October 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Bayern2 from June 26, 2015.
- ^ Exhibition information Ludwig Forum. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .