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Rudi Tröger
German painter
Rudi Tröger | |
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| Born | () 12 October (age&#;95) Marktleuthen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Painter and university professor |
Rudi Tröger (born 12 October in Marktleuthen) is a German painter and university professor. From to he was a professor for painting art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.[1]
Personal life
[edit]In his early years, Tröger received since private painting and drawing lessons by the German painter Wilhelm Beindorf in his home village Marktleuthen. Due to these early student years, he had the privilege of a first and basic artistic education.[2] Tröger: "For myself this time was a gift, it was inspiring and important."[2]
In the year Tröger moved to Munich and studied until at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. His professors were Hans Gött and Erich Glette.[1][3] Since these years he is also active as an independent artist. In he was appointed as a
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I'm a Believer
Pop Art and Contemporary Art from the Lenbachhaus and the KiCo Foundation –
"I'm a Believer" combines classic Pop art with contemporary positions. Works by Andy Warhol and Sigmar Polke mark the point of departure for the exhibition’s survey of Pop strategies in the past half-century: artists appropriate the imagery of mass consumerism, offering ironic takes on their society while acknowledging that they themselves are part of the system. "I'm a Believer" also retraces the evolution of painting since the s, from Hannsjörg Voth, Rupprecht Geiger, and Günter Fruhtrunk to Miriam Cahn and the genre's expansion into new media in the work of Michaela Melián.
In Pop Art, the ordinary, the entertaining, and irony conquered high culture. Here was art that was hip to the contemporary moment. Pop Art was the creative expression to match the euphoria of the postwar boom and the prosperous capitalism of the s and s. But it was always also a critical em
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On 20 July Jahn und Jahn open an impressive exhibition, boasting works by luminaries including Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz alongside those by younger artists from the gallery programme, such as Matthias Dornfeld, Hedwig Eberle and Ioan Grosu. Coupled with a summer party, the show celebrates a particularly significant anniversary: in , 40 years ago, Fred Jahn established his gallery at 10 Maximilianstraße, ten years ago his son Matthias opened his own gallery at 56 Baaderstraße and, finally, only a year has passed since the newly-merged Galerie Jahn und Jahn relocated here with two adjacent exhibition spaces.
Fred Jahn has written gallery history with his decade-long involvement in the art scene: a constant of the gallery landscape in Munich with an international reputation. In he became a freelancer for Galerie Heiner Friedrich and from was a partner there. The programme at that time focussed on Richter, Polke and Palermo as well as on the Americans. In /73, Ja