From 08 March to 01 June 2014 Villa Schöningen presents the exhibition Jörg Immendorff. 40 works of the German painter are shown, the earliest work is from 1965, the most recent was created shortly before Immendorff’s death in 2007. With the review of the artist’s life can be reflected at the same time the political events in Germany: Jörg Immendorff dealt with political and social issues in the works shown at Villa Schöningen. Among them are system-critical works such as “Parlament” (1978) or “Café Deutschland VIII – Kein Licht für wen” (1980). Immendorff also addressed the inner-German division, for example in the works “Ddrr Maler” and “Brrrd Maler” (both 1978).

Seven works in the exhibition show Jörg Immendorff’s idea of “LIDL.” Between 1968 and 1969, “LIDL” was an action project together with Chris Reinecke, with which Immendorff wanted to participate in the 68er movement. Among other things, he designed a “LIDL” city, which he painted with chalk on a blackboard, representing a settlement for a commune.

During the six years of his terminal illness, he had to develop once again, like a “young artist”, a completely new way of proceeding in order to be able to continue painting.

The energy that still speaks from Immendorff’s political images almost 30 years later has lost none of its intensity. On the contrary, as examples of a “new history painting” of which Immendorff was a pioneer in Germany, the works have an impact beyond their context at the time and are as exciting and topical today as they were then.

Jörg Immendorff was born near Lüneburg in 1945 and died in Düsseldorf in 2007. Similar to Otto Dix or George Grosz at the beginning of the 20th century takes artists of his time. Nevertheless, Immendorff is undisputedly one of the most important German painters of the late 20th century. After many years of intensive international exhibition practice, Immendorff was honored in 2006 with a major retrospective at the New National Gallery in Berlin. His works can be found in almost all important museum collections of contemporary art, including the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Kunsthaus Zürich, as well as the Tate Gallery, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and many more.