Me in the Forest of Brushes Jörg Immendorff

•A striking self-portrait from 1989, depicting Immendorff as a combative artist amidst a forest of paintbrushes •Brushes instead of weapons as a powerful allegory of art’s social responsibility •A rare bronze from an edition of just six copies, created in the historic year of the fall of the Berlin Wall With his unmistakably distinctive portrait features, Jörg Immendorff presents himself as a hunter and gatherer, equipped with a quiver full of brushes and surrounded by a whole forest of other painting tools. The slender, upright figure appears ready to set out into the field and face the task at hand. Yet his weapons are not arrows, but brushes. For Immendorff, art was never a purely aesthetic matter. His work was driven by the conviction that artists can take a stand through their works and bring about social change. In particular, post-war German society, its historical baggage and the division of the country preoccupied him for decades. The bronze sculpture ‘Ich im Pinselwald’ (Me in the Forest of Brushes), created in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, distils this aspiration into a self-portrait that is as personal as it is programmatic. Through the medium of his art, Immendorff confronts the political and social issues of his time. The sculpture thus becomes a symbol of a conviction that runs through his overall body of work: for him, art is not merely artistic expression, but also a social responsibility. The Kunstpalast Düsseldorf is currently hosting a retrospective dedicated to Jörg Immendorff – the first comprehensive exhibition of its kind in his adopted home city on the Rhine. On display there is a version of the sculpture on a painted panel entitled ‘Zurück ins Feld’ (Back to the Field) from 1990. | 1945 Bleckede bei Lüneburg - Düsseldorf 2007 | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Skulptur/Objekt/Multiple | Nummer: 26x2034 | Provenance: Galerie Rackey, Bad Honnef; Privatsammlung, Rheinland; Ketterer Kunst, München 10.12.2011, Los 330; Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland, bei Vorgenannter erworben.

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