ART OF 2 GERMANYS Cold War Cultures

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Sybille Bergemann, Berlin-based photographer (Wiki page is in German)
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Although known as a fashion photographer in East Germany, she is known above all for her excellent photo essays and her precise observation. She works primarily in black and white, however when she uses color photography, color becomes a constitutive element in her images.

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Filmmaker Harun Farocki
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An artist in the exhibition The Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Farocki is “Germany's best-known unknown filmmaker”. By 1994, Farocki had his first major retrospective in the United States, following several festival screenings of his Images of the World and Inscription of War (1988).

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Lutz Dammbeck
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An artist from the LACMA exhibition, Lutz Dammbeck, works with collage and intermedia. He first studied typography and book design at the Leipzig College of Graphic Art and Book Design. Later, he began to make animation and experimental films, which he subsequently extended into media collages comprised of film, dance, music and painting. Parallel to this, he has continued to develop photo works and installations. Dammbeck’s most recent long-métrage film was The Net.

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Two Germanys on Film
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Doug Cummings, from Los Angeles film blog, Film Journey, provides a wonderful review of the Torn Curtain: Two Germanys on Film program, which was designed to coincide with the exhibition.

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NYT Article on Martin Kippenberg, featured in the LACMA Exhibition
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Kippenberg is among the many artists featured in the exhibition Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures . To quote the New York Times, “The career of the German artist Martin Kippenberger, who died in 1997 at 44, was a brief, bold, foot-to-the-floor episode of driving under the influence. … Art in its many forms was what he made — specifically paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, prints, posters, books — all in madly prolific quantities.”

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Heinz Mack
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Follow the link for an excellent biography on the artist, Heinz Mack.

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Dieter Roth's Chocolate Sculptures
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Dieter Roth's Chocolate Lion Tower appears in the exhibition in the context of the economic miracle of the 1950s. Read more about it in LACMA's Unframed blog.

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Photographer Via Lewandowsky
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Lewandowsky is also featured in the exhibition. Check out his personal website to see more of his work.

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Hermann Glockner
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This is an image of an early Glöckner work from IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), similar to the artworks shown in the LACMA exhibition.

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The Wende Museum
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The Los Angeles-based Wende Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and enabling access to cultural and political objects, personal histories and documentary materials of Cold War-era Eastern Europe. The Museum offers a broad and comprehensive collection of over 100,000 objects and archival materials, including household consumer products, clothing, folk art, diaries and scrapbooks, political iconography, photograph albums, posters, films, textbooks, paintings, sports awards and certificates, and children’s toys.

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Channels: Contemporary ArtDieter RothEuropean ArtHanz MackHarun FarockiHermann GlocknerLutz DammbeckMartin KippenbergSybille BergemannVia Lewandowsky

For East and West Germany during the Cold War, the creation of art and its reception and theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems: the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Reacting against the legacy of Nazism, both Germanys revived pre-World War II national artistic traditions. Yet they developed distinctive versions of modern and postmodern art—at times in accord with their political cultures, at other times in opposition to them. By tracing the political, cultural, and theoretical discourses during the Cold War in the East and West German art worlds, Art of Two Germanys reveals the complex and richly varied roles that conventional art, new media, new art forms, popular culture, and contemporary art exhibitions played in the establishment of their art in the postwar era.

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