Janusz Akermann, Large Figurative Neo Expressionist Polish Oil Painting Janusz Akermann Brutalist, 1990

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Figurative expressionist semi abstract nude figure oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated 7.12.1990 lower right recto. signed, titled, with … more Figurative expressionist semi abstract nude figure oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated 7.12.1990 lower right recto. signed, titled, with artist address in Poland on verso.

Janusz Akermann (born 1957 in Tczew) is a Polish painter and professor of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Between 1981–1985, Akerman studied at the Painting Department at the State Academy of Fine Arts ( PWSSP) in Gdansk, Poland at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture, majoring in painting. He graduated in 1985, taking over from Kazimierz Śramkiewicza. Then between 1999–2002, he started teaching painting and drawing at the European Academy of Art in Warsaw.
From September 1985, an employee of the PWSSP in Gdańsk, currently the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he was awarded the title of professor in the field of fine arts. In the same year, he received the Award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts for “the exceptional intensity of artistic creativity and teaching self-fulfillment.” He worked as Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Art in the term 2008-2012 and 2012-2016. Presently, he continues his work in the Faculty of Graphic Art, where he runs the Linocut Studio in the Department of Graphic Art.
Since 1985, the artist has participated in numerous group exhibitions and competitions in Poland and abroad, presenting his graphic artworks and paintings (380 exhibitions). He has also shown his works at eighty solo exhibitions. Janusz Akermann won many prestigious awards and commendations of national and international importance (23), from which we need to mention in particular an award for graphic art at The National Exhibition of Young Visual Art in Warsaw’s Arsenal (1988). Equally significant are the artist’s accomplishments at various graphic art competitions, including an honorable mention at the 6th Józef Gielniak National Graphic Competition (Regional Museum in Jelenia Góra, 1987), 3rd place at the 1st Triennial of Graphic Art of the Baltic States (Gdańsk, 1992), and more recent ones: an honorable mention at the International Print Triennial (Cracow, 2006) and an award at the 6th Polish Print Triennial (Katowice, 2006). Janusz Akermann wrote several dozen reviews of artistic work, artistic activity, scientific-didactic work and organizational activity in degree assessment procedures of such degrees as professor, doctor habilitated and PhD for artists – teachers in art colleges throughout the country. Since 2007, he has been running the Linocut and Serigraph/lithograph studio at the Department of Workshop Graphics at the Faculty of Graphics. Since 2008, the Dean of the Faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Multiple scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Art. He received 23 national and international awards and distinctions.
This piece is influenced by the Junge Wilde painters.
In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre). The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke (b:1938). They were sometimes called the Neue Wilde. Berlin: Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach. Cologne: Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Düsseldorf: Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Markus Lüpertz, Werner Buettner, Peter Angermann. The most famous are Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. less