{"id":8846,"date":"2017-03-13T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lufomuseum.fenomen.de\/?page_id=8846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:03:04","slug":"neue-wilde","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/museum\/research\/neue-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of the Neue Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8846\" class=\"elementor elementor-8846\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15bc7bba elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15bc7bba\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-46ebffcc\" data-id=\"46ebffcc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a0f8ad7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a0f8ad7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>No other art historical term exerted the same influence on the German art scene at the beginning of the 1980s than the <em>Neue Wilde<\/em>, the \u201cNew Savages\u201d. At the end of the 1970s young artists stormed the exhibition venues with large-format canvas works which caught the eye with their boisterously loud colors and figurative portrayals. The rich world of their motifs, oscillating between direct wit and a relish for provocation, were a stark contrast to the semantics of Conceptual and Minimal Art, generally perceived as dominating the art scene in the preceding years.<\/p><p>The term commonly used down to the present day, the <em>Neue Wilde<\/em>, was coined in Aachen for an exhibition that took place in the Neue Galerie \u2013 Sammlung Ludwig, the later Ludwig Forum, in 1980. For the exhibition <em>Les Nouveaux Fauves \u2013 Die Neuen Wilden<\/em>, the founding director Dr. Wolfgang Becker bracketed together a number of artist groups whose work revealed \u2013 in very different ways \u2013 links to the historical Fauves movement prominent in France at the beginning of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. These included the American artists of the <em>Pattern and Decoration<\/em> movement and the French artist group <em>Supports\/Surface<\/em>, who had been active since the mid-1960s. The German artists shown included Georg Baselitz, J\u00f6rg Immendorff, Markus L\u00fcpertz, and A.R. Penck. Strictly speaking, none of the latter artists are part of the movement later identified as the <em>Neue Wilde<\/em>. The title of the exhibition was obviously aiming to describe something else. Nevertheless, the catchy term caught on immediately and from 1980 onwards was firmly established in Germany. The research project \u2013 <em>The Invention of the Neue Wilde<\/em> \u2013 examines for the first time how Aachen and the Ludwig Collection were the origin of the term the <em>Neue Wilde<\/em>, and relocates one of the most important chapters in international postwar art in the furthermost western corner of North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p><p>The research project will present its findings in a large exhibition to be held in the fall of 2018 in the Ludwig Forum.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Project Manager<\/strong><br \/>Benjamin Dodenhoff<\/p><p>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Trainee<\/strong><br \/>Ramona Heinlein<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a class=\"liimagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NRW-MFKJKS_Logo.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-8859 size-full alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a class=\"liimagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JKS_Logo.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-8862 size-full alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a class=\"liimagelink\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8868 alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invention of the Neue Wilde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":2123,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8846","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50152,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8846\/revisions\/50152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludwigforum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}