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Copyright the artist | | | Middendorf, Helmut (1953 - ) Germany
Electric Night II, 1981
Dry dispersion on linen; 219.7 x 348 cm Neue Wilde
UID 102-381
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Biography
Studied (1973-79) at the Berlin Art Academy. At the suggestion of his teacher, Karl Horst Hödicke, the doyen of Berlin Neo-Expressionists, Middendorf switched in the late 1970s to working in a pointedly representational, painterly style. He is numbered among the ranks of the 'Young Wild Ones' who propagate 'vehement painting'. Middendorf varies themes chosen from his immediate environment and personal experience In 1977 Middendorf and other pupils of Hödicke's founded the legendary 'Galerie am Moritzplatz' in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which showed films, photos and performances as well as painting, drawing and objects. Since 1979 Middendorf has been instructing experimental film at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, a medium which he was even working in while he was a student, laying the groundwork for a parallel career. However, what made the artist famous overnight was a group-show of 'Vehement Painting' mounted in the early 1980s at the Berliner Haus am Waldsee, where work of his was shown together with work done by Rainer Fetting, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer. That same year he received a study grant from DAAD and went to New York. .As reflections on his life, the late 1980s 'Black Pictures' signalize a new departure.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art Part II, New York, Tuesday, May 4 1993, lot. 202, 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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