Christa Dichgans: Robert

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Christa Dichgans lived in a man's world, initially married to Karl Horst Hödicke, followed by the renowned gallery owner Rudolf Springer in 1972. 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 painter princes, as they were later known, who became important artistic individualists in the course of their careers and taught figurative expression to the younger generation of Junge Wilde, were indispensable dialogue partners for Christa Dichgans. She described her role as follows: "In the sixties, no man felt threatened by me. They thought I was pretty and spooky, they didn't really take my art seriously." As early as the first half of the 1960s, Christa Dichgans developed a pictorial formula in her early work that was in no way inferior to the representatives of Capitalist Realism - Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg and Manfred Kuttner.

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