Friday, June 13, 2014

Jörg Immendorff

Cafe Deutschland I - 1978

Cafe Deutschland II - 1978

Cafe Deutschland IV - 1978

Cafe Deutschland V - 1979

Cafe Deutschland - 1980

Cafe Deutschland - 1984

Cafe Deutschland - 1987 
German painter Jörg Immendorff (1945-2007) became a darling of the world art scene during the 1980s with his Cafe Deutschland series of overcrowded dystopian paintings, reflecting a divided Germany. Obituaries seemed to agree that Immendorff's achievement soared briefly in that decade, with no later work of comparable interest – a situation similar (at least by Janet Malcolm's account) to another 80s art star, David Salle.