He is one of Germany’s most important artists, a man who has spent his life intervening, provoking, polarizing. No other contemporary artist has succeeded in capturing the German psychic landscape on canvas more arrestingly than Düsseldorf painter Jörg Immendorff. He has worked without pause, a driven man, devoting all of his strength to his work and his creative life. Then suddenly, in 1998, everything changed. A fatal illness had crept into his body. Jörg Immendorff’s painting hand, his left, became paralyzed during vacation. His general practitioner sent him to a neurologist, whose diagnosis was devastating: Immendorff had become a victim of the rare Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), which leads to paralysis of the musculature, and finally to an inexorable death by suffocation.Read More »
