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Article: Of politics and painting: in the first installment of a two-part conversation, the artist looks back on his eventful early career--student days, learning from Beuys, Maoist and Green Party activism, clandestine visits to East Germany, the genesis of the Cafe Deutschland series.(Interview)
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- Art in America
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- June 1, 2005
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Born in 1945 in Bleckede, near Luneburg, Jorg Immendorff belongs to the generation of postwar German artists for whom the past was at once heavy and opaque, and the future hemmed in by the sharp political and cultural antagonisms of East versus West, communism versus capitalism. Immendorff, who grew up in West Germany, began his artistic training in 1963 at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf under the tutelage of the innovative theater designer Teo Otto, who had been one of Bertolt Brecht's principal collaborators in the 1920s and early 1930s. A year later, Immendorff joined the class of the recently appointed professor of monumental sculpture, Joseph Beuys, who was to remain ...
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... ... Immendorff, 61, a painter and sculptor whose famed "Cafe Deutschland" paintings dealt with Germany's post-World War II ... Germany's postwar split in his best-known works, the "Cafe Deutschland" series of large paintings, which he began in 1978 ...
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