Fire
A. R. Penck (Dresden 1939)
Lot-No. 649
Proceeds : 700 €
Silk screen in colours, 59 x 43,5 cm, lo. ri. autographed ar. penck, lo. le. num. 75/75, unframed. - From the portfolio 'Standart-West'. - Painter, graphic artist a. sculptor. After being trained by Strawalde he vainly tried to be admitted at the Dresden a. Berlin academies. Using the name of the glaciologist Albrecht Penck as a pseudonym he applied for membership in the DDR arist's union which was refused for his political attitude. Since 1976 he cooperated with Jörg Immendorff. In 1980 he moved to Cologne, in 1983 to London, since 2003 he is living in Dublin. P. exhibited repeatedly at the Documenta. Among his numerous awards is the Rembrandt prize of the City of Basel a. the art prize of the city of Aachen. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Frankfurt (Städel), Dresden (Gal. Neue Meister), Strasbourg a. others.
A. R. Penck: Fire
Fire
Lot-No. 649
Proceeds : 700 €
Silk screen in colours, 59 x 43,5 cm, lo. ri. autographed ar. penck, lo. le. num. 75/75, unframed. - From the portfolio 'Standart-West'. - Painter, graphic artist a. sculptor. After being trained by Strawalde he vainly tried to be admitted at the Dresden a. Berlin academies. Using the name of the glaciologist Albrecht Penck as a pseudonym he applied for membership in the DDR arist's union which was refused for his political attitude. Since 1976 he cooperated with Jörg Immendorff. In 1980 he moved to Cologne, in 1983 to London, since 2003 he is living in Dublin. P. exhibited repeatedly at the Documenta. Among his numerous awards is the Rembrandt prize of the City of Basel a. the art prize of the city of Aachen. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Frankfurt (Städel), Dresden (Gal. Neue Meister), Strasbourg a. others.