Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

Education and career

Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. The art academy is situated in Nuremberg. Classes ...

, Then, in autumn 1968, he was drawn to the class run by

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...

. Constantly showered with his teacher’s praise, he nevertheless – or perhaps precisely for that reason – became co-founder of the legendary YIUP group, which from 1969 on attracted attention inside the academy, and above all in the Beuys class, through provocative actions that were directed even against Beuys himself. On leaving the academy in 1972, Angermann saw that in artistic terms, he had come away empty-handed; his passion for painting had not exactly been fostered by Beuys. Not until a year later, once he had largely jettisoned Beuys’s ideas, did Angermann make a new start in the field of painting. A meeting with his former classmate Milan Kunc proved exceptionally fruitful in this situation. Together they developed a new visual language that was closely oriented to everyday life, while simultaneously being fired by a witty, anarchic impulse. In 1979 Jan Knap joined the two friends, and group NORMAL was born. They championed the rejection of individualism and, in line with this, created a large number of joint works – paintings that in some cases were done in public. By 1981, however, each of the three members had progressed so far in his own artistic development that it was decided to disband the group. Standing now on his own two feet, Peter Angermann has retained the socio-critical impulse from his earlier works – coupled with that provocative and at times absurdist humour that marks many of his paintings to this day. In 1976 he surprised the world with the first of his “bear paintings” and what was to be the beginning of a series that has kept on expanding. In fact these are paintings of family life, which, while sharpening our eye for the human condition under the strict use of the bear guise, do not baulk at depicting idylls. Ten years later Angermann pulled another surprise out of the hat – at first through the sheer joy of exploring a genre which at that time was frowned on: en plein air painting. In the meantime, this group of works has found a permanent place in his oeuvre and has led him to discover a virtuosity as colourist that also distinguishes his mature, themed works. The two of them – his themed works and his landscapes – alternate without more ado in Angermann’s work, and it is this liaison that makes Angermann so unique in today’s art scene. Parallel to this, Peter Angermann has also passed his artistic experience on to a new generation of artists, at first through guest professorships at Reykjavík and Kassel, followed from 1996 to 2002 by a professorship at the

Städelschule The Städelschule (), Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual a ...

in Frankfurt am Main, and then from 2002 to 2010 at the

. In 1995, Angermann made his home one hour’s car drive away from Nuremberg, in Thurndorf, where, far removed from the turmoil of the art business, he continues to dedicate himself enthusiastically to the medium that holds every possibility of artistic development open to him: painting.

Exhibitions

*1980 "11. Biennale des Jeunes", Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris *1980 "

The Times Square Show ''The Times Square Show'' was an influential collaborative, self-curated, and self-generated art exhibition held by New York artists' group Colab (aka Collaborative Projects, Inc) in Times Square in a shuttered massage parlor at 201 W. 41st and 7t ...

Colab Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects, which was formed after a series of open meetings between artists of various disciplines. History Colab members came together as a collective in ...

, NYC *1984 " Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf" *1986 "Peter Angermann", Living Art Museum, Reykjavik *1992 "Peter Angermann: Stehender Verkehr ", Kasseler Kunstverein, Germany *1995 "Peter Angermann", Kunsthalle Nürnberg *1995 "Salut au Monde", Fries Museum, Leeuwarden *2002 "German Landscapes", SA National Gallery in Cape Town *2004 "La boite en valise" – Academy of Fine Arts Prague *2005 "Group Normal",

Prague Biennale The Prague Biennale is an international art exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic, held in alternate (odd-numbered) years. It was founded in 2003 by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi. It is supported by the Czech Minister of Culture and the City ...

2, Carlin Hall, Prague *2005 "Normal Group", MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Italy *2007 "Normal Group", Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarni, Italy *2008 "To be a teacher is my greatest work of art" – Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany *2009 "Joseph Beuys and His Students ", Sakip Sabanci Müzesi, Istanbul *2009 "Peter Angermann – Autonomoney", Museen der Stadt Bamberg, Germany *2010 "Peter Angermann", Daegu MBC, Gallery M, Korea *2013 "Peter Angermann – Licht am Horizont", Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany *2014 "Peter Angermann – Die Lust am Sehen",

Neues Museum Nürnberg Neues Museum Nürnberg (NMN) is a museum for modern and contemporary art and design in Nuremberg. Architecture In 1990 the Bavarian government decided to build a 20th-century museum. The building in which the museum is located was designed by ...

, Germany *2014 "Peter Angermann: Zpátky k umění", Galerie města Plzně *2014 "Streetview", GAVU Cheb *2014 "Wild Heart: German Neo-Expressionism Since the 1960s",

China Art Museum The China Art Museum, also called the China Art Palace (; Shanghainese: ''Zongwu Nyizeh Ghon'') or its original name, Shanghai Art Museum, is a museum of modern Chinese art located in Pudong, Shanghai. The museum is housed in the former China ...

, Shanghai *2015 "The 80s, Figurative Painting in West Germany", Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main *2018 "Peter Angermann – PleinAir", Nuremberg, Germany *2019 "Plein Air Kirchen", Luftmuseum, Amberg *2021 "YIUP" , Overbeck-Gesellschaft – Kunstverein Lübeck

Public collections

* Staedel Museum, Frankfurt am Main *

Germanisches Nationalmuseum The Germanisches National Museum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, it houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day. The Germanisches National ...

* Bavarian State Picture Collections *

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. The museum exhibits Rembrandt, Beuys, a primeval horse and a mastodon under the slogan "The whole world under one roof". As one of the oldest pub ...

Deutsches Historisches Museum The German Historical Museum (german: Deutsches Historisches Museum), known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history. It describes itself as a place of "enlightenment and understanding of the shared history ...

* MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia * National Gallery of Iceland, Safn, Reykjavik *

* MMK Frankfurt am Main *

Centraal Museum The Centraal Museum is the main museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 1838. The museum has a wide-ranging collection, mainly of works produced locally. The collection of the paintings by the Northern Mannerist Joachim Wtewael is by a lon ...

, Utrecht *

Groninger Museum The Groninger Museum () is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The museum exhibits modern and contemporary art of local, national, and international artists. The museum opened in 1874. The current post-modernist building co ...

* Trevi Flash Art Museum di Arte Contemporanea * Glasgow Museums, Glasgow * Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino * Staatliche Kaliningrader Kunstgalerie *

Abteiberg Museum The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach. Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967-1985 ...

, Mönchengladbach * Museum Ostwall, Dortmund * Kunstmuseen Krefeld * Muzeum moderního umění Olomouc * Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY * Luftmuseum, Amberg

Sources

* Julian Spalding (2010) "The Best Art You’ve Never Seen". *Ursula Peters "Vom Ansehen der Tiere" Germanisches Nationalmuseum 2009. *Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg "100 Jahre, 100 Bilder" Merlin Verlag 2009 *Luca Beatrice (2006) "Normal Group" Giancarlo Politi Editore *Luca Beatrice (2005)
PragueBiennale2
. *Peter Angermann (2001) "pleinair". Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. *Karl Schawelka "Peter Angermann: Malerei 1973 bis 1995" Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. *Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen "Tiefe Blicke" DuMont 1985. *Kasper König (1984) "von hier aus" DuMont 1984.

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