|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
1945
Born on July 14 in Bleckede at the west bank of the Elbe, near Lüneburg
1961
First exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz Club, Bonn
1963
Studies stage art with Teo Otto at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf for three terms
1964
Admitted to the class of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art
1965
Various actions and manifestations at the Academy of Art; Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
1966
“deutsch deutsch deutsch”, Galerie Fulda; “vietnam vietnam vietnam”, Galerie Aachen
1967
“Für alle Lieben in der Welt”, Galerie Art Intermedia, Cologne
1968
“Lidl” activities in Düsseldorf, other towns and abroad; Galerie Patio, Frankfurt; Staatliche Ingenieurschule, Düsseldorf
1969
Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt; “LIDL-WEEK”, A 379089, Antwerp; “Planungsübersicht einer Arbeitswoche, August 1968”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1971
Beginning in 1971, teaches at the Dumont-Lindemann elementary school in Düsseldorf. “Die Arbeit an einer Hauptschule”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
1972
Documenta V, Kassel; “Rechenschaftsbericht”; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1973
“Hier und jetzt: Das tun was zu tun ist”, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Loehr, Frankfurt; Galerie Cornels, Baden-Baden
1974
Daner Galleriet, Copenhagen; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie am Savignyplatz, Berlin
1975
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
1976
First meeting with artist A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) in Berlin (DDR), who is living in Dresden; first united short Manifesto about collective works; Venice Biennale; Galerie Seriaal/Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
1977
On May 1st, second meeting with Penck in Berlin (GDR), forms a pact with Penck for joint actions; subsequently different mutual activities and exhibitions; begins the series “Café Deutschland”; Museum for Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht; “Penck mal Immendorff, Immendorff mal Penck”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1978
Galerie Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf; “Café Deutschland”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1979
Visits Penck in Dresden; completes collaborations, begun in the early 1970’s, with the “Grünen/Bunten” movement, “Initiative Bunte Liste Düsseldorf” (IBL); “Café Deutschland”, Kunstmuseum, Basel; Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam; “Positionen—Situation, Plastiken”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Teilbau”, Bleckede an der Elbe
1980
“Malermut rundum”, Kunsthalle, Bern
1981
Visiting professor at the Konsthögskolan in Stockholm; “Pinselwiderstand (4x)”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; “Eisende”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; “Teilbau”, Galerie Hans Neuendorf, Hamburg; Galerie Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid
1982
Documenta VII. Visiting professor at the Academy of Art in Hamburg, in the “Class F+F” in Zürich and at the Academy of Art in Trondheim; “Café Deutschland /Adlerhälfte”, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; “Kein Licht für wen?”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Grüße von der Nordfront”, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich; Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf; Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris; Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Galerie Springer, Berlin; Verenigung Aktuele Kunst, Gent
1983
Kastrupgardsamlingen, Kastrup; “Café Deutschland gut”, Galerie Springer, Berlin; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh; Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan; Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London; “38. Parteitag”, Ratinger Hof, Düsseldorf; Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Galerie Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris; Kunsthaus, Zurich; “Café Deutschland gut”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Sammler - übermalte Linoldrucke”, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
1984
Visiting professor at the Academy for Arts and Crafts, Cologne. Opening of the Cafe “La Paloma”, St. Pauli, Hamburg; “Café Deutschland gut”, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg; Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich; Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart; Mary Boone Gallery, New York; “beben/heben”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid; Museo de Bilbao, Bilbao; Galerie Heinrich Erhardt, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1985
Creates the “Hans-Albers” sculpture for Hamburg; Maison de la Culture de la Communication, St. Etienne; Kunstverein, Braunschweig; “Jörg Immendorff - Bilder und die gesamte Grafik”, W. Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf
1986
Stage design and costumes for the opera “Elektra”, by von Richard Strauß, at the Bremen Stadttheater; Mary Boone Gallery, New York; Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London; “Jörg Immendorff - 10 Bilder von 1978 aus Privatsammlungen”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1987
Works on the fantastic parishö fair “Luna, Luna” by André Heller. Stays for 3 months in Auckland, New Zealand; second prize for the draft of the wall painting in the colonnade in the Paulskirche, Frankfurt; “Jörg Immendorff, Neue Editionen”, Maximilianverlag/Sabine Knust, Munich; “Jörg Immendorff - Neue Arbeiten”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1988
“Jörg Immendorff in Auckland”, Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand; “Jörg Immendorff - Die Zauberflöte”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac I, Salzburg
1989
Professor at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt; “Jörg Immendorff - Zeichne! - Zeichnung 1959-1989”, Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim; “Jörg Immendorff. Zeichnungen”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Jörg Immendorff - oeuvres récentes”, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1990
“Das grossartige, ewige 1. Semester”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; “Jörg Immendorff”, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; “Jörg Immendorff 1981-1989”, Galerie de l’Ecole d’Art, Marseille; “Jörg Immendorff. Bilder und Arbeiten auf Papier”, Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zurich; “Jörg Immendorff. Pinturas”, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Sevilla; Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt am Main
1991
Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Michael Werner, New York
1992
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Goethe Institute, Osaka; Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju; Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg; Obalne Galerije, Piran
1993
Seoul Arts Center, Seoul; Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; Pao Galleries, Hong Kong; Art Gallerof Beijing; International Art Palace, Peking; Tapei Fine Arts Museum; Horsens Kunstmuseum; Lucio Ameilo, Paris; Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris; Galerie Piece Unique, Paris; Musée national art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1994
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Kastrupgaard Collection; Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac; Orpheusfoyer, Salzburg Festival; set and costume design for Stravinsky’s opera, “The Rake’s Progress” for the Salzburg Festival; “The Rake’s Progress” Galerie Thaeddeus Ropac, Salzburg
1995
Barbican Art Gallery, London; Venice Biennale
1996
Professor at the Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; Museum Wolfsburg; "German Drawings after Beuys", Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galerie Michael Werner, Köln; "Immendorff Gyntiana", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; "Immendorff Respect I", Dresdner Kunstverein, Dresden; participates in "Chaos, Wahnsinn", Kunsthalle Krems; Festspielhaus, Salzburg; Galeire Radicke, Saint Augustine; “The Rake’s Progress”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
1997
“Premio Marco: Grand Prize Winner”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg; “The Rake’s Progress: From Hogarth to Hockney”, Sir John Sloane’s Museum, London; Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg; “Hommages”, Musée de Picardie, Amiens; “Standort Deutschland”, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen; Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; Achenbach Art Consulting, Düsseldorf; appointed as a member of Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Salzburg; Visting Professor Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin
1998
Receives “Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” (Order of Merit of The Federal Republic of Germany); “Jörg Immendorff. Znaki, symbole i wizje/Zeichen, Symbole und Visionen/Signs,Symbols and Visions”, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw; Gammelholtegaard Museum, Holte; Politischer Club Colonia für Studien und Aktionen zum Frieden, Cologne; “Jörg Immendorff – Malerdebatte”, Kunstmuseum Bonn
1999
Galerie Holtegaard, Holte; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Neue Galerie im Höhmann-Haus, Augsburg; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; “Examining Pictures”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; “Circa 1968”, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto; “Jörg Immendorff. Neue Bilder”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg. Inauguration of the sculpture “Elbquelle”, Riesa; “Jörg Immendorff. Malerwald”, Museum Kueppersmuehle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg; “Jörg Immendorff. Bilder 1997-98, Zeichnungen”, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Neue Galerie im Hoehmann-Haus, Augsburg
2000
Receives Kulturpreis der Stadt Dormund; Faroe Islands Art Gallery, Torshavn, Färöer Insel; Städtischen Galerie Karlsruhe; “Jörg Immendorff. Bilder und Zeichnungen”, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; “Arbeiten auf Papier von Jörg Immendorff”, Galerie Radicke, St. Augustin; “Jörg Immendorff. Bilder”, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
2001
“Jörg Immendorff: Lidl (Fluxus) Paintings and Recent Paintings” Anton Kern Gallery, New York; “Jörg Immendorff: New Paintings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Jörg Immendorff: New Paintings”, Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, Coppenhagen; “Jörg Immendorff. Allen Dingen ist der Wechsel eigen”, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg
2002
China Millenium Monument, Beijing; Shanghai Jungwen Art Center, Shanghai; Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
2003
“Immendorff Weltnase: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen”, Kunstverein Lippstadt
2004
"Jörg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist", Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; "Jörg Immendorff: I wanted to Become an Artist", The Arts Club, Chicago; "Jörg Immendorff", Patrick Painter, Inc., California; "Jörg Immendorff: New Sculpture", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; "DC: Jörg Immendorff. Site of Criticism", Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2005
"Triumph of Painting", Saatchi Gallery, London; "Jörg Immendorff: New Sculpture", Michael Werner Gallery, New York; "Jörg Immendorff: New Paintings", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Jörg Immendorff: New Paintings", Michael Werner Gallery, New York; "Jörg Immendorff. Wilhelm Sasnal", Anton Kern Gallery, New York; "Jörg Immendorff", Galerie Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca; "Jörg Immendorff", White Space, Beijing; “Girls on Film”, Zwirner and Wirth, New York; “Works on Paper”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Immendorff: Male Lago – Unsichtbarer Beitrag”, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; "Jörg Immendorff: High Plains Drifter”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; “Jörg Immendorff: Paintings and Sculptures 1972-2005”, Arario Gallery, South Korea; "Jörg Immendorff. The Graphic Work 1968 - 2005", Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich
2006
“Jörg Immendorff: Café Deutschland”, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York; “Jörg Immendorff”, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica; “Jörg Immendorff: Schnuppe”, Patricia Lowe Contemporary, Gstaad; “Silent Power: Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck”, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; “Beautiful Cynicism”, Arario Beijing, Beijing; “Jörg Immendorff: Paintings and Sculptures 1972 – 2005”, “Black and White: Drawings for Summer”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Arario Gallery, Beijing; “Sherwood Forest: Jörg Immendorff / Jonathan Meese”, Museum Haarlem, Netherlands; “Implosion”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; “Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now”, Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Jörg Immendorff: New Paintings”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
2007
“Selection”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Jörg Immendorff:
New Paintings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Jörg
Immendorff. Nouvelles Peintures”, Michael Werner. Une saison à
Paris, Galerie de France, Paris; “The Art of Collecting“, Museum
Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf "Jörg Immendorff. The Graphic Work
1968 – 2005", Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Horst-Janssen-Museum,
Oldenburg Rheingoldhalle, Mainz; “Immendorff. Sculptures 1988 –
2005”, KulturBahnhof Kassel; „KölnSkulptur 4“, Skulpturenpark
Cologne; “Jörg Immendorff. Retrospective of Drawings“, Museum
Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; “Affinities”, Deutsche Guggenheim,
Berlin; Jörg Immendorff. Der Affe und ich (The Monkey and Me)”,
Stadtmuseum Hofheim; “Akademos: Jörg Immendorff”, MKM Museum
Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
2008
“Jörg Immendorff: Was uns Malerei bedeuten kann (What Painting
Can Mean for Us)”, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg; “Jörg
Immendorff. Der Affe und ich (The Monkey and Me)”, Stadtmuseum
Hofheim; “Jörg Immendorff. Graphic and Sculpture”, Kunsthaus
Kaufbeuren; “Jörg Immendorff”, Galerie Benden & Klimczak,
Viersen; “From Gerhard Richter to Rebecca Horn: Work from the
Collection of Contemporary Art from the Federal Republic of
Germany“, Bonn; “Artists of the Academy and Albrecht Dürer“,
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; “Pretty Ugly”, Gavin
Brown’s Enterprise, New York; "Jörg Immendorff - his life's work
in painting and sculptures", CCH – Congress Center Hamburg,
Germany; “Serial Works on Paper”, Julius Werner, Berlin; “Series
Drawings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2008-09
“Passionate Provocative: The Stoffel Collection”,
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2009
“Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures”, LACMA, Los Angeles, traveling to Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Jörg Immendorff: Druckgraphik”, Kunsthaus Stade, Stade travels to Schloss Zichy, Zsámbék/Budapest; “Edition Copenhagen Retrospective 1959-2009”, Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen; “1968: The Great Innocents”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; “flagge zeigen? Die Deutschen und ihre Nationalsymbole (Show the Flag? The Germans and Their National Symbols)”, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig; “Imminence”, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Jörg Immendorff. Maoist Paintings from the Seventies, Michael Werner Gallery, NY;
2010
“Jörg Immendorff. Late Paintings”, Cardi Black Box, Milan
Jörg Immendorff died in Düsseldorf in 2007
