Christa Dichgans: Robert

Overview

Christa Dichgans lived in a male-dominated world: her first marriage to Karl Horst Hödicke was followed 1972 by a marriage to the renowned Galerist Rudolf Springer in Berlin. She had friendship with Markus Lüpertz and A. R. Penck, and she assisted Georg Baselitz during his professorhip in the 1980s at Berlin’s Academy of Fine Arts. The German »painter princes,« as they were later known, artists who over the course of their careers became important figures in Germany and taught figurative expression to the younger generation of the Junge Wilde (Youg Wild Ones), were indispensable dialogue partners for Christa Dichgans. The artist described her role at the time thusly: »In the 1960s, no man felt threatened by me. Men thought I was pretty and spooky, but they didn’t really take my art seriously.« Her early works, which were long consigned to the shadows, already bore the germ of a pictorial formula that was to make the artist one of Germany’s most important Pop art figures and in no way inferior to Capitalist Realists such as Sigmar Polke, Gerhad Richter, Konrad Lueg, and Manfred Kuttner.

Author Biography

Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraße in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few. Christa Dichgans lived in a male-dominated world: her first marriage to Karl Horst Hödicke was followed 1972 by a marriage to the renowned Galerist Rudolf Springer. She had friendship with Markus Lüpertz and A. R. Penck, and she assisted Georg Baselitz during his professorhip in the 1980s at Berlin’s Academy of Fine Arts. The German »painter princes,« as they were later known, artists who over the course of their careers became important figures in Germany and taught figurative expression to the younger generation of the Youg Wild Ones, were indispensable dialogue partners for Dichgans. Since 2021 Angela Stief is the new Chief Curator and Director of the Albertina Modern. With the appointment of Angela Stief as Chief Curator, the collection, which now numbers 65,000 works, will for the first time be managed organizationally as an independent collection and given its own management, just like the Albertina's four other major collections. Angela Stief has been a Visiting Professor of Curatorial Practice at the University of Art in Linz since 2020, after serving as Curator of the Kunsthalle Wien from 2002 to 2013. She has published widely… Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraße in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few.