Penck, A.R. (b.1939-2017)
Creator details
- Name
- Penck, A.R. (b.1939-2017)
- Nationality
- German
- Biography
- Mostly self-taught artist lived in the Communist GDR until 1980, when he was expatriated to West Germany. As early as 1960 he began to create paintings of stick figures and a range of pictograms that he called Standarts. From the early 1980s he was recognized for his primitive images, which he rendered in paintings, prints, and sculpture, and was acknowledged as a leader of the German Neo-Expressionist movement.
