A.R. Penck
A.R.Penck is a German painter, draughtman, sculptor, film maker, writer and musician. born on 1939 in Dresda.
He was born in Dresden, East Germany, and studied together with a group of neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jorg Immendorff, George Baselitz and Marcus Luperts. Under the communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents. In the late 1970's they were included in shows in West Berlinand were seen as exponents of free speech in the East There work was shown by major museums and galleries in the West throughout the 1980's. 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
In the 1980's he bebecame known worldwide for painting with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of humanfigures and other totemic forms. He was included in many important shows both in London and New York.
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