Artist Monograph

A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler), German

German, 1939–2017

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Medium Breakdown

Medium Works at MoMA Share
Screenprint 63 47%
Watercolor 24 17.9%
Other Media 20 14.9%
Drawing 16 11.9%
Gouache 4 3%
Woodcut 3 2.2%
Lithography 2 1.5%
Etching 1 0.7%

Department Distribution

Department Works Share
Drawings & Prints 133 99.3%
Painting & Sculpture 1 0.7%

Production by Decade

15
1960s
37
1970s
82
1980s

Classification Types

  • Illustrated Book — 48
  • Drawing — 44
  • Print — 41
  • Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)3225.8%
Medium (30–100 cm)9072.6%
Large (1–3 m)21.6%

Range: 20.2 cm → 285.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquiredWorks
197916
198011
19811
19824
19831
19842
19853
19869
199062
19912
200519
20064

German Contemporaries

  1. 835 Lilly Reich
  2. 750 August Sander
  3. 270 Thomas Schütte
  4. 260 Martin Kippenberger
  5. 224 Michael Schmidt