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Wolfgang Opitz

Wolfgang Opitz (Born 1944) is active/lives in Germany.  Wolfgang Opitz is known for Abstract painting.

Wolfgang Opitz was born in 1944, in Stolp in Pomerania.  The artist studied art education from 1964 to 1968 in Erfurt and Dresden.

Opitz met A.R. Penck, with whom he made numerous experimental films in 1969.  They also founded the artist’s group ‘Lücke’ in 1971, together with the artists Harald Gallasch and Steffen Kuhnert (Terk).

In 1989 Opitz fled from East Germany to the West, where he received a teaching position at the University of Lüneburg in 1991.  The artist, who is working in various media became known for his works of black ammunition boxe.  He worked these with a circular saw and piled into meter high steles, or used as printing blocks for large-scale woodcuts.

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