Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger, artist and art
the artist was born 1953 Birth Dortmund, Germany.
Died 1997 deathVienna, Austria.
Untitled , Heavy Burschi with Warhol | Untitled, from Serie Jacqueline
Style and technique Kippenberger is working in, art movement, art prizes, major exhibitions:
Installation art Painting Sculpture Objects Venice Biennale
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Martin Kippenberger was a versatile artist, who worked as a gallery owner, event promotor (manager of the SO 36 punk club in Berlin), painter and object artist. Many of his works testify to an ironic, critical approach to the mechanisms of art production and the art market…
In Martin Kippenberger’s remarkable series of self-portraits from 1988, he pictures himself with a touching lack of vanity. An exaggerated beer belly, folds of fat, a thick neck, and dejected posture present a melancholic, awkward and somewhat grumpy figure. He wears immense white underpants pulled up high on his hips – rather like a well-known photograph of Picasso…
Metro-Net was a great art idea by Martin Kippenberger—simple, intelligent, accessible, thought-provoking and funny. Kippenberger imagined a global underground metro system and started to construct entrances to it in different cities around the world…
Thing Net.
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Thing Net.
Works in the MOMA
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Kippenberger was “widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation,” according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.
“My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.” Untitled , Heavy Burschi with Warhol, c.1989-90