Peter Angermann | Bears and Mathematics

Mo | 10. 4. - 30. 4. 2017 | MUSEUM OF ART - CAFÉ 87 | FREE ENTRY
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An exhibition of graphic works of Peter Angermann, which are part of the collections of the Museum of Art in Olomouc.

Peter Angermann (born 1945, Rehau in Bavaria) is a Neoexpressionist painter. During his studies from 1966 to 1968 at the Kunstakademie Nuremberg with Gerhard Wendland, and from 1968 to 1972 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Joseph Beuys, he was a co-founder of the group YIUP and together with Milan Kunc and Jan Knap of the group NORMAL. After a stay with his family in the USA in 1982 and 1983, in spring 1986 he taught as a guest lecturer for painting at an art school in Reykjavik, then from 1992 to 1993 at the Gesamthochschule Kassel. From 1996 to 2002 he was a Professor of painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and from 2002 to 2010 a Professor of painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg. Besides his artistic work, he has also been intensely occupied with scientific questions, above all perception-theoretical and epistemological ones. 

His most important one-man exhibitions were in 2013: Light on the Horizon, in the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld; and in 2014: The Desire for Seeing, in the Neues Museum in Nuremberg. Important group exhibition participation includes 1980: Times Square Show in NYC, the 11th Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne; in 1984: von hier aus in Düsseldorf and Depth Views in Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt; in 2005: Group Normal in the Prague Biennale; in 2014: Wild Heart: German Neo-Expressionism Since the 1960s, China Art Museum, Shanghai; and in 2015: DIE 80ER, in Städel Museum in Frankfurt.