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A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) Art

German, b. 1939
Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, Mike Hammer, T. M., Mickey Spilane, Theodor Marx, "a. Y." or just "Y" (1939 – 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor and jazz drummer. Penck was born in Dresden, Germany. In his early teens he took painting and drawing lessons with Jurgen Bottcher, known by the pseudonym Strawalde, and joined with him to form the renegade artists’ group Erste Phalanx Nedserd (“Dresden” spelled backward). He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. After failing to gain admission to the fine-arts academies in Dresden and East Berlin, Penck worked for several years as a stoker, a newspaper deliverer, a margarine packer and a night watchman. After emigrating to West Germany in 1980, Penck became one of the foremost exponents of new figuration, alongside Jorg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lupertz. Their work was shown by major museums and galleries in the West throughout the 1980s. They were included in a number of important shows including the famous Zeitgeist exhibition in the well-known Martin Gropius Bau museum and the important New Art show at the Tate in 1983. Penck first attracted attention with a series of paintings and sculptures, made in the 1960s and early 1970s, that he called Standarts, a conflation of "standard" and "art", with an echo of the German word for banner or flag, Standarte. In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. He was included in many important shows both in London and New York City. A keen drummer, he was a member and with Frank Wollny co-founder of the free jazz group Triple Trip Touch (aka T.T.T. or TTT) and took every opportunity to play with some of the best Jazz musicians of the late 1980s including Butch Morris, Frank Wright, Billy Bang, Louis Moholo and Frank Lowe, organising events at his country mansion in Heimbach in 1990 involving installations by Lennie Lee, performances by Anna Homler and paintings by Christine Kuhn.
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Artist: A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)
A. R. PENCK - "Red Man with Eye"
A. R. PENCK - "Red Man with Eye"

A. R. PENCK - "Red Man with Eye"

By A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)

Located in Wien, Wien

A. R. PENCK Dresden 1939 – 2017 Zurich "Red Man with Eye" Acrylic paint on cardboard 50 x 42 cm Signed lower right

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Falkenkopf, Jäger und Adler

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A.R. Penck Falkenkopf, Jäger und Adler, 1994 Screenprint in colours on wove paper with full margins 61 × 79 cm 24 × 31 1/10 inches An artist’s proof aside from the edition of 90 Bor...

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A. R. PENCK - "Red and Black Man on Blue"
A. R. PENCK - "Red and Black Man on Blue"

A. R. PENCK - "Red and Black Man on Blue"

By A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)

Located in Wien, Wien

A. R. PENCK Dresden 1939 – 2017 Zurich "Red and Black Man on Blue" Mixed media on cardboard 65 x 46 cm Signed lower right

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1980s Modern A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Ereignis in N.Y.2

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Mul, Bul Dang & Sentimentality, Abstract Woodblock by A.R. Penck
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Mul, Bul Dang & Sentimentality A.R. Penck, German (1939–2017) Date: 1988 Woodblock, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 300 Size: 35 in. x 27 in. (88.9 cm x 68.58 cm)

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Standart auf Kreuzsockel

Standart auf Kreuzsockel

By A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)

Located in London, GB

A.R. Penck Standart auf Kreuzsockel, 1994 Incised with the artist's signature 'a.r.penck' on the reverse of the left leg Stainless steel 23.6 × 20 × 16.3 cm 9 3/10 × 7 9/10 × 6 2/5 i...

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Untitled (Peace)

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