A.R. Penck, born Ralf Winkler, developed a graphic pictorial language of stick figures, symbols, arrows and signs while working under political restrictions in East Germany. He described these systems as Standart, imagining painting as a communicative structure that could operate like information or mathematics.
Painting; drawing; sculpture; music
Gallery Representation
Major Works
- 1968Standart
- 1968World Picture I
- 1983The Future of the Emigrants
- 1980West
- 1980East
- 1981The Battlefield
- 1970Standart-Modell
- 1974System-Bild
- 1983TM
- 1970sUntitled (stick-figure paintings)
Interviews & Writing
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