Udo Lindenberg: 40 years of liquor and political art on paper

Udo Lindenberg
40 years of liquor and political art on paper

Udo Lindenberg and Joseph Beuys at a political event in the early 1980s.

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A large retrospective in the Kunsthalle Rostock documents the work of Udo Lindenberg in the field of fine arts.

Udo Lindenberg (77) is known to the general public primarily as a musician who also likes to paint funny “Liqueurelle”. Exhibition “LINDENBERG. PAINTING. MUSIC & BIG SHOW” in the Rostocker Kunsthalle attempts to classify him as a serious visual artist.

“Interdisciplinary Genius Udo Lindenberg”

From June 1st to August 27th, 2023, Lindenberg fans can get a comprehensive overview of the artistic work of the legendary musician and songwriter to date.

As the press office of the newly renovated art gallery announces, not only paintings, drawings and liqueurs will be on display on 2000 square meters, but also “numerous other artefacts” from the oeuvre of the “interdisciplinary genius Udo Lindenberg”.

“Germany’s most successful pop painter”

The aim of the retrospective, according to Kunsthallen director Dr. Jörg-Uwe Neumann to document the artistic path of one of the “most important avant-gardists of rock and pop music in Germany” to “Germany’s most successful pop painter”.

In addition to the album covers designed by Lindenberg, the influences of his artistic work on his stage shows are “made perceptible in an installation” in an exhibition area entitled “Lindenberg Concert Experience”.

“Rare look behind the scenes”

An open “show laboratory” is intended to offer visitors to the exhibition a “rare look behind the scenes”, “of the creative processes, costumes and drawings that lead to the development of the elaborate stage productions”.

And of course Lindenberg’s famous “Likörelle” can also be seen, which he has been making in his studio under the roof of his permanent home in Hamburg’s Hotel Atlantic since the 1990s.

Joseph Beuys as artistic mentor

Like Udo Lindenberg on his website explained, he received the decisive inspiration for his career as a visual artist in 1982 from the art legend Joseph Beuys (1921-1986). The two met at a concert organized by the “Artists for Peace” initiative, at which Beuys persuaded the singer “to use the visual arts from now on as a means of expressing his messages”.

In return, Lindenberg apparently convinced the action artist to bring his political messages to the people in a musical way. At least Beuys resigned in the same year as interpreter of the song “Sun instead of Reagan” appeared as a singer for the first time.

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