Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997). Archiviste XX is Happy to Curate a sell from a NYC collector of Kippenberger multiples. We call it ‘Martin Kippenberger x13 + MORE !!!’ Posters and more by Martin Kippenberger - all Museum quality & Exhibited. Martin was like many Painters of the 80’s who lived through the Anti-painting of the 70’s, Punk rock, and a Cold War. Martin, as a German who experienced the post history of WWII a destroyed land, economy, and Social Fabric painted/created his way through it. Martin found voice in Painting and Music. Punk being a DADA vehicle that gave Martin a new approach to a new future.

Martin was the manager of SO 36 a notorious Punk club in Partitioned American/West German Sector of Berlin. There were no rules, Russia was just over the wall, East German defectors were being shot trying to escape. Beer, Low/squatter Rents, and restless Youth created a vibrant scene. His contemporaries of German Painting were (Berlin > Köln scenes) Albert & Marcus Oehlen, Michael Krebber, Werner Büttner, and others.

Martin was master of many mediums beyond painting. He created many Gallery Exhibition posters (just under 200) and invites as works of Art onto themselves. These posters contain his great sense of humour, randomness, and function of advertising. Many of the posters were not made by Martin but commissioned by other Artists from Günter Förg to Jeff Koons. As a Gallery describes “The poster, the self-advertising medium par excellence, represented the brilliant fusion of “Kippenberger the self-promoter” with “Kippenberger the bogey of the middle classes”: the spectator is spared no absurdity, no embarrassment, no taboo remains unbroken”.

Archiviste XX presents x13 Exhibition Posters + MORE most from two Portfolio’s ‘Mit zum Druck” 1990 (transl; courage to print, a portfolio of twenty-three screen printed sheets, one Xeroxed and four offset posters edition of 25), and ‘Pop it Out’ 1994 a portfolio of thirty screen printed sheets and offset posters edition of 17. All of these are offered for sale. Please write for price and shipping quote.

Left: VIT 89, 1989. 76 x 66cm, 30” x 26” in. Below: Angst, 1989. 86 x 61cm,

34” x 24” in.

Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), Lot 13. Christie’s 2014 NYC sales. Untitled (selbstporträit) Oil on canvas, 201cm x 242cm (79” x 95” in.). Painted 1988. Price realised USD 18,645,000 (Original estimate USD 9-12,000,000).

Below: Disco Bombs, 1989. 84 x 58cm, 33” x 23” in.

Martin anticipating the later reception of his work, once declared that he was the ultimate embodiment of the art of the 1980s. His artistic thinking - drawing on Punk and New Wave, Neo-Expressionism and appropriation art - manifests itself in his extraordinarily prodigious output, from paintings, objects, installations and multiples to books, posters and cards. Kippenberger’s vast oeuvre draws on popular culture, art, architecture, music, politics and history, as well as his own life, where no subject was sacred. Many of these works deal mercilessly with political topics from the last decade of the Cold War; above all his works are characterised by their wit and powerful, Actionist elements, which have their roots in Kippenberger’s highly communicative, even performative personality. Since his sudden death abruptly halted his obsessive urge to produce, it has become increasingly clear to what extent ideas and concepts determined Kippenberger’s approach, and the degree to which he engaged with the critical-analytical impulses that emerged around 1970 such as institutional critique, site-specificity and process.

Above: Martin Kippenberger, ‘Mut Zum Druck’ (Courage to print) portfolio, 1990. Shown is the complete portfolio of 28 screen prints on paper of 25 sets Published by the artist. Each initialed and dated lower right edge of sheet by Kippenberger. All various dimensions. Originally sold through Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, Deutschland. The first 6 images are available for Sale here.