Raymond Unger

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Raymond Unger (born 1963 in Buxtehude ) is a German visual artist and writer.

Life

Raymond Unger completed a therapeutic and psychological training before he began to paint abstractly and informally , and later turned to expressive realism . From 2004 he only applied paint with a spatula and did not use a paintbrush.

In 2010 he founded the German Forum for Remodernism , whose members emphasize the importance of visions and emotions. They see an overemphasis on the intellect in postmodern art as a wrong path that makes art elitist and bloodless and makes access more difficult. According to the journalist and art critic Ralf Sziegoleit, Unger tries to work “self-confrontational” and to recognize himself with the help of his painting .

In 2016 Unger's autobiographical novel Die Heimat der Wölfe was published , which deals with the chronicle of his own family during and after the Second World War and their fate, which was shaped by resettlement and displacement from the eastern regions and homelessness after bombing. He searches for the causes of emotional coldness and a lack of empathy on the part of parents and deals in general with their effects on the generation of baby boomers , whose parents were children in the post-war period and who are themselves "trapped in the invisible trauma network of their ancestors".

In 2018 Unger published Die Wiedergutmacher: The Post-War Trauma and the Refugee Debate , which deals with the reactions of the baby boomer generation to the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 and its causes. He is a guest author at the Axis of Good .

Raymond Unger lives and works in Berlin .

Awards

Books

  • The Artist's Hero's Journey: Art as the Adventure of Self- Encounter, Monsenstein and Vannerdat, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95645-055-6 .
  • The home of the wolves: A war grandson on the trail of his family A family chronicle , Europe, 2016, ISBN 978-3-958-90014-1 .
  • The reparators: The post-war trauma and the refugee debate , Europe, 2018, ISBN 978-3-958-90234-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Sziegoleit: Opening speech for the exhibition “Mea culpa”: 38 works from 2009 - 2012 , Kunstverein Hof, 2013.
  2. ^ Author profile of Raymond Unger , Europa-Verlag. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Joachim Süss: About the novel , review, 2016.
  4. ↑ How much truth can our opinion makers endure? , Information on the book Die Wiedergutmacher: The post-war trauma and the refugee debate , Europa Verlag, 2018.
  5. ^ Articles by and about Raymond Unger on the Axis of the Good .
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxtehude