Immendorf, Jorg

Immendorf, Jorg
▪ 2008

      German artist

born June 14, 1945, Bleckede, Ger.

died May 28, 2007, Düsseldorf, Ger.
produced provocative and often politically and socially engaged art in a variety of media. He was best known for his 16 Café Deutschland paintings, which examined the relations of East and West Germany and of Germany's past and present in the context of a fictional nightclub. In the late 1960s he was known for producing his own style of performance art, which he called Lidl. Immendorf won the Marco Prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mex. Despite a sometimes tawdry personal life, he was honoured with important retrospectives in Warsaw (1998) and at Berlin's New National Gallery (2005).

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