December 4, 2007 to March 2, 2008
at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

As part of the AKADEMOS project series, which presents the work of Düsseldorf academy professors, the MKM will be showing paintings by the recently deceased painter prince Jörg Immendorff (1945-2007) from December 4, 2007 to March 2, 2008. So far, Siegfried Anzinger (2001), Hubert Kiecol (2002), Rissa (2003), A.R. Penck (2003), Rosemarie Trockel and Markus Lüpertz (2006) have been presented in this series. The exhibition was arranged and discussed with Jörg Immendorff during his lifetime.

In 1969, the student Jörg Immendorff was expelled from the Düsseldorf Art Academy; he returned there as a professor in 1996, with a broad and groundbreaking oeuvre and countless exhibitions at home and abroad. According to director Walter Smerling, at the academy he “found the place where he could work most intensively. He, the former secondary school teacher and professor, was associated with the Academy for decades and, through his relationship with Joseph Beuys, probably felt this place to be his original home.”.

Around 90 works allow visitors to take a tour through four decades of Immendorff’s pictorial worlds and reveal time and again why the artist is undisputedly one of the most important protagonists of German post-war art. The oldest picture in the exhibition dates from 1965, the most recent from 2007. Jörg Immendorff is also represented in the Ströher Collection with numerous works.