Summary Ralf Winkler a.k.a. A.R. Penck (1939-2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. Training at the academies of the GDR or membership in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR remain A.R. Penck refused, although he applied several times for it. And although his art, which oscillates between abstraction and figuration, does not correspond to the aesthetic ideal of socialist realism, he shares the cultural-political view of the role of the artist as a socially relevant force. Again and again Penck deals with the actually existing socialism and rubs against its contradictions. In the mid-1960s, Georg Baselitz sold Winkler's works to the gallery owner Michael Werner, who organized his first solo exhibition in Cologne in 1968. View more details
Directed : Thomas Claus
Written : Thomas Claus Jens Stubenrauch
Stars : Birgitta Assheuer Simon Elson A.R. Penck Achim Freyer
Genres : Biography Documentary
Release date : Oct 26, 2019
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : Official website
Language : German
Production companies : Adhoc Film & Fernsehproduktion RBB/Arte
Summary Ralf Winkler a.k.a. A.R. Penck (1939-2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. Training at the academies of the GDR or membership in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR remain A.R. Penck refused, although he applied several times for it. And although his art, which oscillates between abstraction and figuration, does not correspond to the aesthetic ideal of socialist realism, he shares the cultural-political view of the role of the artist as a socially relevant force. Again and again Penck deals with the actually existing socialism and rubs against its contradictions. In the mid-1960s, Georg Baselitz sold Winkler's works to the gallery owner Michael Werner, who organized his first solo exhibition in Cologne in 1968. View more details
Genres : Biography Documentary
Release date : Oct 26, 2019
Countries of origin : Germany
Official sites : Official website
Language : German
Production companies : Adhoc Film & Fernsehproduktion RBB/Arte
