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A. R. Penck (b. 1939), Color Serigraph, Composition, 1980s

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:700.00 EUR Estimated At:1,120.00 - 1,400.00 EUR
A. R. Penck (b. 1939), Color Serigraph, Composition, 1980s
This abstract color serigraph on vellum was created in Germany during the 1980s in the quintessential style by A.R. Penck. Shapes and figures emerge in red, blue and black on a beige ground. Since the 1970s Penck uses his own, almost calligraphic formal language, which reminds on the one hand of early cave paintings and on the other hand of modern graffiti tags. By using simple, archaic characters and forms the artist aims to create works that are easily accessible to everyone.



The work is signed on the lower right in pencil with ‘A. R. Penck’ as well as numbered on the lower left in pencil in the edition ‘163/250’. The serigraph is in good condition. The sheet is slightly wavy and handling creases are visible on the margins especially on the left and upper margin. The framed dimensions are 111,5 x 153 cm and the sheet size is 96 x 137 cm.



A. R. Penck (b. 1939)

Born in Dresden in 1939 as Ralf Winkler, the painter and sculptor adopted several pseudonyms. ‘A. R. Penck’ was eventually the name that stuck and that he is now famous for. He started taking drawing lessons by Strawalde and in the early 1950s completed an apprenticeship as an advertising artist. As off 1956 he applied a total number of four times to the Academy of Arts in Dresden as well as the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin, every time unsuccessful. In 1966 he accepted the pseudonym ‘A. R. Penck’, as off 1973 he also signed his works with ‘Mike Hammer’, ‘T. M.’ or ‘Y.’. Whilst his work was under various restrictions in the German Democratic Republic, he received the Wilhelm-Grohmann Award from the Academy of Arts in West Berlin in 1975. In 1976 he made the acquaintance of the artist Jörg Immendorff with whom he collaborated for a few years to come. In the August of 1980 Penck moved to West Germany. Three years later he moved to London and in 1988 he moved to Düsseldorf for a job as a professor at the Academy of Arts teaching painting classes. After his retirement in 2003, he moved to Dublin where he lives and works today.
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