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Mülheimer Freiheit
The Cologne "Neue Wilde" (Young Wild Ones) became also known as the painters of the "Mülheimer Freiheit", as they put their works on exhibition in a studio they shared under the address "Mülheimer Freiheit no. 110" in Cologne-Mülheim.
The "Mülheimer Freiheit", which would soon follow the Berlin "Wilden" (Wild Ones), had a different artistic temper, whereas the "Heftige Malerei" (Vigorous Painting) in Berlin still promised to be a real style epoch, a stronger artistic individuality was predominant in Cologne. The art of Hans Peter Adamski (born in 1947), Peter Bömmels (born in 1951), Walter Dahn (born in 1954), Jiri Georg Dokoupil (born in 1954), Gerard Kever (born in 1956) and Gerhard Naschberger (born in 1955) cannot simply be reduced to a common denominator. Peter Bömmels expressed the imperative individuality of the Cologne group with the sentence "mir geht es in meinen Bildern um mich selbst" (my pictures are about me).
Regardless of this principle, group works such as those by Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil were also made in an attempt to express their protest against established art. Surrealist features characterize many works by Peter Bömmels, whereas Hans Peter Adamski deliberately encrypted his works.
The Cologne "Neue Wilde" (Young Wild Ones) became also known as the painters of the "Mülheimer Freiheit", as they put their works on exhibition in a studio they shared under the address "Mülheimer Freiheit no. 110" in Cologne-Mülheim.
The "Mülheimer Freiheit", which would soon follow the Berlin "Wilden" (Wild Ones), had a different artistic temper, whereas the "Heftige Malerei" (Vigorous Painting) in Berlin still promised to be a real style epoch, a stronger artistic individuality was predominant in Cologne. The art of Hans Peter Adamski (born in 1947), Peter Bömmels (born in 1951), Walter Dahn (born in 1954), Jiri Georg Dokoupil (born in 1954), Gerard Kever (born in 1956) and Gerhard Naschberger (born in 1955) cannot simply be reduced to a common denominator. Peter Bömmels expressed the imperative individuality of the Cologne group with the sentence "mir geht es in meinen Bildern um mich selbst" (my pictures are about me).
Regardless of this principle, group works such as those by Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil were also made in an attempt to express their protest against established art. Surrealist features characterize many works by Peter Bömmels, whereas Hans Peter Adamski deliberately encrypted his works.
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