Gyntiana - The Birth of Onionman
Jorg Immendorff
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Original Title:Gyntiana - Geburt Zwiebelmann -
Date:1992 -
Style:Neo-Expressionism -
Genre:figurative
Gyntiana - The Birth of Onionman
Jorg Immendorff
In Gyntiana, Jorg Immendorff presents an allegory of creation: surrounded by heroes of ideological importance, an onion springs forth from a richly fertile womb. Jorg Immendorff once said that painting ‘has the function of a potato’. Here it’s reborn in the multilayered richness of ideological and intellectual nourishment.
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