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135: 322:(“Dresden” spelled backward). The group sought artistic work without compromise. For this reason, their members refused to study at an academy. The group members were also denied membership in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. They, therefore, had to earn a living as workers or craftsmen. He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. From 1955 to 1956, Winkler was a draftsman for the publicity agency DEWAG. Since 1956, he attempted but failed to gain admission to the 606: 25: 289: 527:. By this term, Penck understood an art form that used simple and archaic pictorial symbols, such as traffic signs or trademarks. In the 1980s, he became known worldwide for his paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. He was included in many important shows both in 520:
An autodidact, he created in his paintings "worlds" and "experience spaces", filled with symbolic abbreviations. He used stick figures and graphic icons that seem reminiscent of cave paintings, Asian calligraphy and graffiti art. In the 1960s and 1970s, he created a series of paintings and sculptures
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Winkler was one of the founding members, in May 1971, together with Steffen Terk, Wolfgang Opitz and Harald Gallasch, of the artist group GAP, which existed until 1976. Since 1973, he worked under the pseudonyms Mike Hammer and TM. After serving the military service in 1974, he was awarded the Will
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Penck's sculptures, although less known, evoke the same primitive themes as his paintings and drawings and use common materials, such as wood, bottles, cardboard boxes, cans, packing tape, tin and aluminum foil, wire and paste, all done with simplicity and spontaneity.
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in 1972, and also at Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta IX in 1992. He was meant to exhibit at the Documenta 6 (1977), but was prevented to do so by the influence of an unofficial employee of the State Security of the
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documenta 6 catalog: Volume 1: Malerei, Plastik/Environment, Performance; Volume 2: Fotografie, Film, Video; Volume 3: Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bücher; Kassel 1977.
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In 1966, Winkler became a candidate to join the Association of Plastic Artists, now under the artistic pseudonym A. R. Penck. which was chosen after the geologist
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A. R. Penck, Neo-Expressionist Painter Whose Work Reflected on the German Postwar Condition, Dies at 77, Artnews, 3 May 2017
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that he called Standarts, a conflation of "standard" and "art", with an echo of the German word for banner or flag,
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catalog; Volume 1: (Visuelle Biographien der Künstler); Volume 2: (Aktuelle Arbeiten der Künstler); Kassel 1982.
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Documenta IX: Kassel, 13. June-20. September 1992 – Catalog in three volumes; Stuttgart 1992,
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Ingrid Pfeiffer, A. R. Penck, Isabelle Graw, Harald Kunde, Kewin Power, Pirkko Rathgeber,
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A. R. Penck is represented in many public collections, like the Kunstsammlung
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in 1983. In 1981, the Goethe Foundation awarded him the Rembrandt Prize in
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Wiedervorlage d5 – Eine Befragung des Archivs zur documenta 1972
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The most expensive painting by Penck in the art market was
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A keen drummer, he was a member and co-founder, with
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Penck Biography, Artnet 763:, the Kunstmuseum Walter, in 328:Berlin University of the Arts 1262:21st-century German painters 1247:20th-century German painters 1089:A. R. Penck at Artcyclopedia 437:. In 1983, Winkler moved to 324:Dresden Academy of Fine Arts 1317:German contemporary artists 590:involving installations by 508:. He died on 2 May 2017 in 453:. Some of his students are 1343: 1312:German male jazz musicians 1141:; Kassel/Ostfildern 2001, 1322:Neo-expressionist artists 829:Berardo Collection Museum 284:East Germany (until 1980) 132: 1137:documenta archive (ed); 1056:A. R. Penck at Widewalls 947:Andreas Franzke (2003). 853:Art Institute of Chicago 1195:Wer war wer in der DDR? 965:(subscription required) 845:National Gallery of Art 715:, on 11 February 2020. 610:Die himmlischen Stürzer 1282:21st-century sculptors 1277:20th-century sculptors 1204:. 5. Ausgabe. 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