The Politically Charged Performance Art of Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff is one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Germany, so it is unsurprising that his influence – that of a revolutionary and an activist – continues to resonate today, most recently in a string of exhibitions in Berlin and in London. Immendorff was born in the country’s Lower Saxony region in 1945, as the country was thrust into the dreary aftermath of the Second World War, and would come to create some of the most politically charged and…