Counter Cultures East and West
Penck, Immendorff, Schönebeck, and Contrasting Utopias on Opposite Sides of the Wall
Robert Storr, former Dean of the Yale University School of Art, presents a lecture about A. R. Penck’s politics in relation to his painting, in association with the postwar Germanic expressionist gifts The Phillips Collection recently acquired from Michael Werner.
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Robert Storr, former Dean of the Yale University School of Art, presents a lecture about A. R. Penck’s politics in relation to his painting, in association with the postwar Germanic expressionist gifts The Phillips Collection recently acquired from Michael Werner. The talk will hinge on a conversation between A. R. Penck and Jörg Immendorff in a bar in East Berlin when Immendorff was delivering money to Penck that he had made from sales at the Michael Werner gallery. Both artists came to realize that Penck’s enthusiasm for science fiction—a common passion among non-conformists in the Soviet block—and Immendorff’s for Maoism—a common dream of students and others on the Left in the West—were two sides of the same utopian coin.