Object "LIDL Landscape (For all Beloved in the World)" (1967) (Unique piece)
Object "LIDL Landscape (For all Beloved in the World)" (1967) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | inscribed | acrylic and chipboard | size 9 x 75.5 x 1 (h x w x d)
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Object "LIDL Landscape (For all Beloved in the World)" (1967) (Unique piece)
Jörg Immendorff has had a significant influence on contemporary German art from the second half of the 20th century onwards. His first artistic and at the same time art-political steps included the founding of the "LIDL" project at the end of the 1960s, together with the artist Chris Reinecke. The aim was to politicise art and make alternative artistic concepts accessible to a broad public.
With the name "LIDL", Immendorff and Reinecke chose a completely meaningless combination of letters, entirely in the Dadaist tradition. As part of a LIDL art action, Immendorff also caused a public stir for the first time: in 1968, he marched up and down in front of the German Bundestag in Bonn with a wooden block in black, red and gold attached to his leg until the police escorted him away. Various works of art were created in connection with the LIDL project, including this highly minimalist interpretation of a landscape painting from 1967.
Acrylic and chipboard, 1967. Signed, dated and verso inscribed "Für alle Lieben in der Welt" (English: For all Beloved in the World). Height: 9 cm. Width: 75.5 cm. Depth: 1 cm.
About Jörg Immendorff
1945-2007, German painter, graphic artist, sculptor
Jörg Immendorff, born in Bleckede, Germany, is one of the most important contemporary German artists with worldwide recognition.
In the 1970s he developed an emphatically object-related visual language with symbolic, art-historical and political allusions. "Every picture by Immendorff is a critical representation of a cultural-political situation," writes Lorand Hegyi about the artist. His pictures are today exhibited in the world’s most important museums.
Through his friendship with the painter A.R. Penck, who was still living in East Germany in 1976, the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff developed a history painting that reflects and critically examines the theme of German division. This year he began the series of sixteen large-format paintings "Café Deutschland". In this series, his striking and stylistically pluralistic painting style found expression in an inspiring way.
Immendorff's political ambitions already emerged during his training at the Düsseldorf Academy. One of his teachers was Josef Beuys, with whom he worked closely.
Immendorff founded the LIDL Academy and used LIDL as a pseudonym, which represented politically oriented art. He understood his politically engaged paintings as art that served the nation and the working people. He is the utopian among painters: "I am the only painter in the history of art who worked on a utopia that then became concrete" (German Reunification).
His sculptural style is characterised by an expressiveness comparable to that of the artists' community "Die Brücke". And again through his sculptures historical and social issues are forcefully traced.
His paintings and sculptures are presented to the interested art public in extensive exhibitions of important museums.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.