Berlin, 23 April 2007 (kk) - From 7-29 May 2007 Ketterer Kunst is showing some 30 works from the 1960s-1980s by internationally renowned artists at Fasanenstrasse 70 in Berlin - a tribute to the "Neue Wilde” and an ode to Spring.

Wild brush strokes, at times abstract, at others representational, in vibrant colours and always charged with emotion: that is probably the best way of summing up the art of the "Neue Wilde" or "Junge Wilde" in a nutshell. This casually cheerful, at times brash, affirmative school of painting arose as a backlash against the intellectual, not to say scientifically oriented, works produced by Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Unlike both those movements, the New Wild Ones oppose anything bourgeois, instead making a point of eschewing style and any form of underlying concept, with no holds barred and no explanations forthcoming.

For Young Wild Ones such as Elvira Bach, Rainer Fetting, Jörg Immendorff and Helmut Middendorff, whose work ushered in Postmodernism, the here and now and emotion are all that matter. They are represented at the Berlin exhibition with exuberantly expressive, vibrant work accompanying works by major artists from the 1960s to the 1980s - including Simon Dittrich, Otto Dix, Derrick Graeaves, Erich Heckel, David Hockney, Christian Kruck, Max Peiffer Watenphul, Tobias Pollak, Hans Purrmann, Mark Tobey and Tom Wesselmann - a breath of fresh air in Spring and then some.

The exhibition will be at Ketterer Kunst, Fasanenstrasse 70, Berlin, and all exhibits are for sale. Opening hours are Monday through Friday from 11 am-7 pm and Saturday from 11 am -4 pm. Prices range from € 120 to € 11,500. For more information, please call +49-(0)30-88675-363.

Since it was founded in 1954, Ketterer Kunst has developed into one of the most important auction houses dealing in fine art and books. The headquarter in the Prinz-Alfons-Palais in Munich currently holds two traditional auctions each year, Modern Art & Post War, and two auctions take place each year in the Meßberghof in Hamburg with the following titles: Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century/Maritime Art and Rare Books - Autographs - Manuscripts - Decorative Prints as well as Modern Art & Post War (the emphasis here is on works on paper). In addition there are special auctions and charity auctions taking place as well as live online auctions.

Berlin, 23 April 2007