The term Junge Wilde (

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for "young wild ones") was originally applied to trends within the art world, and was only later used with reference to politics. At present, the term is used by German-language journalists to describe any group within a tradition that seeks to undermine established authority.

Artistic movement

In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established

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and

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. It was linked to the similar

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movement in Italy, USA (

neo-expressionism Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early- postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called ''Transavantgarde'', ''Junge Wilde'' or ''Neue Wilden'' ('The new wild ones'; 'Ne ...

) and France (

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). The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke (b:1938). They were sometimes called the Neue Wilde ( :de:Neue Wilde).

Influential artists

* Austria: Siegfried Anzinger, Erwin Bohatsch,

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, Gunter Damisch,

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, Hubert Schmalix, G.L. Gabriel-Thieler * Denmark: Berit Heggenhougen-Jensen, Nina Sten-Knudsen * Germany: ** Berlin:

Luciano Castelli Luciano Castelli (born 28 September 1951 in Lucerne) is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician. Life and work Lucerne: model, self-promoter, Art Star Luciano Castelli visited the preliminary course of the School ...

Rainer Fetting Rainer Fetting (born 31 December 1949 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany) is a German painter and sculptor. Rainer Fetting was one of the co-founders and main protagonists of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, founded in the late 1970s by a group o ...

, Andreas Walther, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer,

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, Peter Robert Keil ** Cologne: Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Walter Dahn,

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, Gerard Kever, Gerhard Naschberger, Volker Tannert, Elias Maria Reti,

Stefan Szczesny Stefan Szczesny (born 9 April 1951) is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Neue Wilde movement in the early 1980s. Biography 1951–1994 Stefan Szczesny was born in Munich as the son of the ph ...

** Dresden:

A. R. Penck Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, who also used the pseudonyms ''Mike Hammer'', ''T. M.'', ''Mickey Spilane'', ''Theodor Marx'', "''a. Y.''" or just "''Y''" (5 October 1939 – 2 May 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculpt ...

** Düsseldorf: Moritz Reichelt,

Jörg Immendorff Jörg Immendorff (14 June 1945 – 28 May 2007) was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement ''Neue Wilde''. Early life and education Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, n ...

Albert Oehlen Albert Oehlen (born 17 September 1954) is a German artist. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain.

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Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenbe ...

Markus Lüpertz Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggest ...

, Werner Buettner,

Horst Gläsker Horst Gläsker (born March 21, 1949 in Herford, Germany) is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation art, installation and architecture. Development From 1963 to 1966 Horst Gl ...

Peter Angermann Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the ...

** Karlsruhe: Bernd Erich Gall * Switzerland: Martin Disler

Later usage

The term Junge Wilde began to be used by the media in the 1990s with reference to a certain group of politicians who bucked party leadership to make their names. It was first used with reference to the German CDU party (particularly against

Helmut Kohl Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longes ...

). Since then the term has also been applied to members of other parties.

References

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