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Jörg Immendorff was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde.
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culture · German artist (1945–2007) · painter · sculptor · university teacher · draftsperson · graphic artist · lithographer · also Jörg Immendorff, Jörg Immendorf, Jorg Immendorf, Jorg Immendorff, Immendorff
Born 14 June 1945 · Died 28 May 2007 · Q75858
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The High Regional Court of Düsseldorf overruled the decision, claiming the authenticity of the work was “irrelevant
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The Estate of the Artist contested the authenticity of a work that was offered at an auction, and the work was withdrawn from the sale
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Died 2007-05-28.
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Immendorff selected 25 of his paintings for an illustrated Bible
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Won Golden Feather (2005).
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Awarded Berliner Bär (2004).
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Funded a stipend to research the disease
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Immendorff married his former student Oda Jaune
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Immendorf won the world's best endowed art prize at the time, the MARCO prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico
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Became professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and in 1996 he became professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf—the same school that had dismissed him decades earlier as a student
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Immendorff opened the bar La Paloma near the Reeperbahn in Hamburg St
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“LIDL ridiculed elitist art traditions, the cult of creative 'genius', and the precious aesthetic object. The artist countered these hierarchies by assembling a body of pretentious iconographic motifs drawn from the make-believe world of the child – turtles, dogs, goldfish, playhouses, and polar bears – which he transformed into the 'working material' of what he hoped would be a new functional art form.”
Immendorff studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf)
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Born 1945-06-14.
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LIDL ridiculed elitist art traditions, the cult of creative 'genius', and the precious aesthetic object. The artist countered these hierarchies by assembling a body of pretentious iconographic motifs drawn from the make-believe world of the child – turtles, dogs, goldfish, playhouses, and polar bears – which he transformed into the 'working material' of what he hoped would be a new functional art form.
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