Peter Angermann: ''90° village'', 1984, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Group Normal is a German Czech group of artists formed in 1979. It consists of the artists

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

, Jan Knap and Milan Kunc, who met in the early 1970s at

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 Jetelov� ...

in the classes of

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 ...

and

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German ...

. 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. The declared ambition of the three artists was to overcome the predominating and elitist “academic avantgardism” by an art as demystified and accessible as possible.

Exhibitions

* 1980 ''11e Biennale de Paris'', Musee d'Art Moderne * 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 ...

'',

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 ...

, New York * 1980 ''Apres le Classicisme'', Musee d'Art et de l'Industrie, St. Etienne * 1981 ''Rundschau Deutschland'', Munich * 1981 ''Gruppe Normal'', Neue Galerie / Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen * 1984 ''

Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf (''Up from here – Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf'') is the title of an art exhibition from 29 September 1984 to 2 December 1984.Wayback Machine/ref> It was organised by t ...

'' (From here – Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf) * 1984 ''Tiefe Blicke'', Hessisches Landesmuseums, Darmstadt * 2005 ''"Prague Biennale 2'', Prague * 2005 ''Normal Group'', MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Italy * 2007 ''Normal Group'', Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarni, Italy * 2015 ''The 80s. Figurative Painting in West Germany'', Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main * 2016 ''Die Neuen Wilden'', Groninger Museum * 2018 ''Libres Figurations'' au FHEL de Landereau

References

External links

Peter Angermann's website www.polka.de

Homepage of Milan Kunc

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