Helmut Middendorf

HELMUNT MIDDENDORF (Dinklage, 1953).
Untitled, Olympic Suite. 1992.
Lithograph on paper. Copy A.P 35/50.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The chosen artists work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio López to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, passing through abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, or the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international projection, widely recognized by critics.
Trained at the Berlin School of Art, Middendorf was a member of the group "Heftige Malerei" composed of other important artists who represent a second generation within the German neo-expressionism, inspired by German expressionism and its main exponents: Max Beckmann, George Grosz or Emil Nolde, among other important artists. Middendorf's work is characterized by aggressiveness, realist and stark themes, all of them treated with recognizable forms. The human body, with forms tending towards abstraction, but without moving away from figuration, are crowned as protagonists in a totally expressive and colorful work.