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Petrick, Wolfgang
(b Berlin, 12 Jan 1939). German painter. He began studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in West Berlin in 1958, taking the state examination for art teachers in 1963. In 1964 he was a founder-member of the self-help gallery Grossgörschen 35. Between 1963 and 1965, influenced by art brut and the work of James Ensor, he depicted, in such works as Paradise (1964; Berlin, J. and W. Kunde priv. col., see 1989 exh. cat., p. 31), eery, goblin-like beings who, in their aggression and self-imprisonment, already contained the pointedly expressed pictorial message of his later works. At this time he also became the most radical critic among the Berlin Realists (see BERLIN, §II, 5), although he did not advocate revolutionary change in society.
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