Alienated idyll in the museum
Created: 06/25/2022, 11:02 am
Landscapes are his thing, but deliberately artificial: Peter Angermann exhibits in the Starnberger See Museum.
Photo: Andrea Jaksch © Andrea Jaksch
"Savage, rule-breaking and totally loving at the same time".
This is how museum director Benjamin Tillig describes the landscape paintings by Peter Angermann, which can be seen in the Starnberger See Museum from Sunday.
The painter, born in Rehau in 1945, was a student of Beuys, but turned away from conceptual art after his studies.
"The Beuys class was a new church," says the artist.
Starnberg - "Everyone acted sensitively, but were only adjusted." So he left the "Beuys-Revier" and returned to representational painting.
Today he is regarded as a co-founder of the Nuremberg School, which opposed the graphic tradition with direct painting in the 1970s, and as one of the most important contemporary artists.
Peter Angermann, Harri Schemm, Dan Reeder and Kevin Coyne were among the protagonists who reinterpreted the landscape.
In keeping with the summer, the exhibition in the museum is titled “Ins Freie”.
It presents a show of lovely Bavarian landscapes that is well worth seeing.
This idyll can be understood as an ode to homeland painting, even if the term homeland painting is "actually a no-go", as Tillig emphasizes.
He spotted the artist on Instagram and invited him precisely "because of this discrepancy."
So it is now an idyll to discover, which is alienated by mostly exaggerated colors, often shines in sweet cream colors and appears artificial on purpose.
Nevertheless, the landscapes have an inner glow and radiance that gives immeasurable breadth even to snow-covered winter landscapes.
In addition, excitingly designed formal image divisions and perspectives give the landscapes immense spatial depth and dynamics.
What is special is that a number of works were painted on Lake Starnberg.
In March, the artist went in search of motifs with an easel and canvas, also in memory of his childhood when he spent holidays at the Seeburg.
For this exhibition, pictures of the Rose Island, the Church of St. Valentin in Allmannshausen or a view of Starnberg were created.
He discovered "mobile painting", as the artist calls plein-air painting, in 1986 and thereby also found a small format and a new sense of color, "an exercise in self-discipline", he says.
In the meantime, he also paints landscapes in large formats, sometimes combined with current social criticism.
So he lets "bombers" fly over the Bavarian sky since "the horror has set in" in our present or laments with a lonely,
lost-looking butterfly on large format the insect die-off.
It's a mourning cloak.
Recent work also includes dealing with artificial intelligence.
He stages this as a devilish Punch and Judy show.
ASTRID AMELUNGSE-KURTH
"Into the open.
Painting by Peter Angermann"
will open on Sunday 26 June.
Start 3 p.m.
It runs until November 20, 2022.
