Mülheimer Freiheit / Mulheim Freedom (1992)
Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed.
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This text is an excerpt from Walker’s 1992 glossary previously published by Library Association Publishing, London.
Mülheimer Freiheit / Mulheim Freedom
Mülheimer Freiheit is a group name adopted in 1981 by six German artists, who lived in Cologne: Peter Bömmels, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Gerard Kever, Hans Peter Adamski, Walter Dahn and Gerhard Naschberger. The name derived from the street in which their studio was located. Paintings by these artists were generally placed in the broad category of “neo-expressionism” but they were also called “new subjectivism”, “new savages”, “young fauves” and “freestyle art”. Driven by “a hunger for pictures” and an “anything goes” attitude comparable to that of punk, this group produced a tremendous number of crude, aggressive paintings with the conventions and content of painting treated with irreverence and bitter irony.
See also Neo-Expressionism, Punk.
References and further readings
> Cordelia Oliver. “The second bombing: The Mülheimer Freiheit Group”, Artscribe, (44), December 1983, pp. 22-6.
> Mülheimer Freiheit. (London, ICA, 1984).
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