| 1939 | born in Dresden as Ralf Winkler
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| 1955 | Refused at Academies in Dresden and Eastern Berlin
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| 1954 | First woodcarvings and portraits
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| 1956 | Illustrator apprenticeship at the 'Volkseigener Betrieb Deutsche Werbeagentur' (People's company German Advertising Agency') first exhibition, freelance artist since then
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| 1966 | Refused candidate 'Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR'
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| 1970 - 71 | Foundation of the group "Lücke", together with Wolfgang Opitz and others
A.R. Penck lives and works in Dublin, London, Berlin |
Exhibitions [Selection]
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| 2007 | - Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
- Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
- Kunstkabinett, Regensburg
- Kunsthalle, Kiel
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| 2006 | - Kunsverein Kassel
- Museum Liner, Appenzell
- National Museum of Contemporaary Art, Seoul
- Neues Museum Weimar
- Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
- Leopold Museum, Wien
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
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| 2005 | - Ludwig Museum Budapest
- Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
- Kunstsammlung, Chemnitz
- Kunsthalle Emden
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| 2004 | - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
- Das Städel, Frankfurt
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| 2003 | - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
- Städtische Galerie Sonneberg
- Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
- Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo
- Kunsthalle Tübingen
- Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
- St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
- Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
- Museo nNacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires
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| 2000 | - Kunsthaus Grenchen
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| 1999 | - Art Frankfurt
- Art Cologne
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| 1998 | - Art Cologne
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| 1997 | - Peter Borchardt Gallery
- various Fairs
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| 1984 | - Biennale Venedig
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| 1982 | - Participant documenta 7
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| 1980 | - Emigration from the GDR
- Peter Borchardt Gallery
- 'Babel', Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen
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| 1968 | - First individual exhibition (Cologne, Michael Werner Gallery)
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