Group Normal

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, Jan Knap, and Milan Kunc, who met in the early 1970s at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter. 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. ^[1] 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 ^[2]
• 1980 The Times Square Show , Colab, 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 (From here – Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf) ^[3]
• 1984 Tiefe Blicke, Hessisches Landesmuseums, Darmstadt ^[4]
• 2005 "Prague Biennale 2, Prague ^{[5] [6]}
• 2005 Normal Group, MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Italy ^{[7] [8]}
• 2007 Normal Group, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarni, Italy ^[9]
• 2015 The 80s. Figurative Painting in West Germany, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main ^{[10] [11]}
• 2016 Die Neuen Wilden, Groninger Museum ^{[12] [13]}
• 2018 Libres Figurations au FHEL de Landereau ^{[14] [15]}

References

1. Peter., Angermann (2013). Peter Angermann : Licht am Horizont. Hentschel, Martin., Green, Malcolm., Museum Haus Lange Krefeld. Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst. ISBN   978-3-86984-439-8. OCLC   852126565.
2. "ARCHIVES DE LA BIENNALE DE PARIS, 1980". archives.biennaledeparis.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
3. Von hier aus. König, Kasper., Oeri, Maja., Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Düsseldorf. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag. 1984. ISBN   3-7701-1650-X. OCLC   12286007.
4. Tiefe Blicke : Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der DDR, Österreich und der Schweiz. Anderson, Sascha., Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, Germany), Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Hessischen Landesmuseums in Darmstadt (Germany). Köln: DuMont. 1985. ISBN   3-7701-1740-9. OCLC   13356906.
5. "Prague Biennale 2". kunstaspekte.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-16.
6. Prague Biennale 2 : expanded painting/acción directa. Sansone, Valentina. Milan: Politi. 2005. ISBN   88-7816-134-9. OCLC   62150357.
7. "Normal Group Trevi Flash Art Museum Trevi (PG)". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-16.
8. Beatrice, Luca (2006). Normal Group. Milano: Politi. ISBN   88-7816-138-1. OCLC   84611307.
9. "TREVI - Normal Group 1979-81 - mostra". protrevi.com. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
10. "The 80s". Städel Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
11. Engler, Martin (ed.). Die 80er : figurative Malerei in der BRD. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN   978-3-941399-47-1. OCLC   921934109.
12. "New Wild Painters". www.groningermuseum.nl. Archived from the original on 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
13. Nieuwe Wilden : Duits neo-expressionisme uit de jaren '80. Blühm, Andreas, 1959-, Struiving, Els., Jansen, Marie͏̈tta., Groninger Museum. [Groningen]: Groninger Museum. 2016. ISBN   978-94-6262-083-4. OCLC   948602568.
14. "Pas à pas >> NEUE WILDEN". www.fonds-culturel-leclerc.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
15. Le Thorel, Pascale (2017). Libres Figurations – Années 80. pp. 202–209. ISBN   979-10-96209-02-6.

External links

• Peter Angermann's website www.polka.de
• Homepage of Milan Kunc
• Jan Knap at Galerie Caesar