CategoriesStyles and Movements
The New Fauves
Neue Wilde: young German painters of around 1980 whose loud, fast, figurative canvases broke with the cool Conceptual art of the 1970s.
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Around 1977 a handful of young painters opened a self-run exhibition space at Moritzplatz in West Berlin and began showing big, fast, garish canvases of nightclubs, bodies and city life. Rainer Fetting, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer painted with the energy of the punk and New Wave scene around them, and a 1980 Berlin exhibition called their work Heftige Malerei, violent painting. The press soon called such artists Neue Wilde, new wild ones, after the French Fauves.
In Cologne, Walter Dahn, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Peter Bömmels and others shared a studio on a street called Mülheimer Freiheit and took its name, switching between clashing styles. Martin Kippenberger, Albert and Markus Oehlen and Werner Büttner pushed further into irony and deliberately bad painting. Look for loud colour, rough handling, crude figuration and jokes against good taste. The disputed label, also applied to Austrian painters, overlaps with international Neo-Expressionism.
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