The subject came up: Who is a female German artist that is a contemporary of Baselitz, Penck, Immendorf, etc. In other words, a hardcore neo-expressionist, not an ironic conceptualist. I suggested Ina Barfuss. Here are some images of hers pulled off of Google images. Some nice things here, I think! Especially that blue one, whoah!
 
 
the barbell woodcut is pretty great too.
Tom, thanks. I am embarrassed not to know her work. Interesting. Ina Barfuss is 5 years younger than Rebecca Horn. Ina Barfuss b. 1949, Rebecca Horn b. 1944 and Rosemarie Trockel b. 1952.
So she's not really a contemporary of Baselitz, et al. But her work is compatible with theirs stylistically and emotionally. She's fairly obscure (what I posted is pretty much all I found on Google) but perhaps deserves a stronger push. I'm already making a mental comparison of these images with Amy Sillman and Dana Schutz and Barfuss comes out the stronger artist, I think. (Sillman definitely and Schutz maybe.) (Subject to standard critique-based-on-jpeg disclaimer.)
Great stuff, love the top image.
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The subject came up: Who is a female German artist that is a contemporary of Baselitz, Penck, Immendorf, etc. In other words, a hardcore neo-expressionist, not an ironic conceptualist. I suggested Ina Barfuss. Here are some images of hers pulled off of Google images. Some nice things here, I think! Especially that blue one, whoah!
- tom moody 5-18-2007 10:26 am
the barbell woodcut is pretty great too.
- steve 5-18-2007 6:51 pm
Tom, thanks. I am embarrassed not to know her work. Interesting. Ina Barfuss is 5 years younger than Rebecca Horn. Ina Barfuss b. 1949, Rebecca Horn b. 1944 and Rosemarie Trockel b. 1952.
- b. 5-18-2007 10:41 pm
So she's not really a contemporary of Baselitz, et al. But her work is compatible with theirs stylistically and emotionally. She's fairly obscure (what I posted is pretty much all I found on Google) but perhaps deserves a stronger push. I'm already making a mental comparison of these images with Amy Sillman and Dana Schutz and Barfuss comes out the stronger artist, I think. (Sillman definitely and Schutz maybe.) (Subject to standard critique-based-on-jpeg disclaimer.)
- tom moody 5-18-2007 11:00 pm
Great stuff, love the top image.
- anonymous (guest) 5-19-2007 4:36 am