Christa DichgansRobert

Christa Dichgans lived in a man’s world: first married to Karl Horst Hödicke, she was married in 1972 to the renowned gallerist Rudolf Springer. She was friends with Markus Lüpertz and A. R. Penck and assisted Georg Baselitz during his professorship at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in the 1980s. The German “Malerfürsten,” or painter princes, as they were later also called, who in the course of their careers advanced to become significant artistic individualists and taught figurative expression to the younger generation of the Junge Wilde, were indispensable partners in dialogue for Christa Dichgans. She described her role like this: “In the sixties no man felt threatened by me. They thought I was pretty and spooky; they did not really take my art seriously.” As early as the first half of the 1960s, Christa Dichgans developed in her early work the essentials of a pictorial formula that was in no way inferior to that of the representatives of Capitalist Realism – Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg and Manfred Kuttner.

Exhibition:
Contemporary Fine Arts CFA Berlin: 18/3 – 22/4/2023