Albert Oehlen: Luhring Augustine/Skarstedt Fine Art. (Reviews: New York).(Brief Article)

More than twenty years after Albert Oehlen's first solo show, in Stuttgart in 1981, these two exhibitions presented works that function as bookends to the painter's career so far. Like his collaborators Martin Kippenberger, Georg Herold, and Werner Buttner, Oehlen came on the German art scene at the peak of neo-expressionism, when Baselitz, Lupertz, et al.

were finally being "discovered" on an international scale after having exhibited in Germany since the '6os. From the outset Oehlen and his peers responded satirically to the older artists' painterly excesses and ...

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