Helmut Middendorf Biography
Helmut Middendorf (born 28 January 1953 in Dinklage) is a German artist. Middendorf studied from 1973 to 1979 at the College of Arts in Berlin with Karl Horst Hödicke, adoptive father of Neo-Expressionism in Berlin. At the suggestion of Hödicke Middendorf began in the late 1970s with a figurative, emphatically picturesque method. Together with Hödicke students Rainer Fetting, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer, he participated in the founding of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Moritzplatz, in 1977. In addition to painting, drawing and object art, he also showed films, photos and performances. Since 1979 Middendorf has held a professorship for experimental film at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. During his studies, he had already studied this medium in parallel with painting.Middendorf belongs to painters such as Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, Salomé and Elvira Bach at the New Wild. The name of this exhibition is Les Nouveaux Fauves - The New Wild, the New Gallery Ludwig Collection 1980 in Aachen. Middendorf, Fetting, Salomé and Zimmer became known to a wider audience with the group exhibition "Fierce Painting", which took place at the beginning of 1980 in the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. Middendorf went to New York in 1980 on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. His works mark a greater emotional serenity. Find an experimental opening around reducing color and moving on to new topics.
