Norbert Prangenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norbert Prangenberg

German sculptor and painter

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Nettesheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Jun-2012

Profession: painter, sculptor, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Norbert Prangenberg (June 23, 1949 — June 29, 2012) was an abstract painter, sculptor, and engraver who was born in Nettseheim, just outside of Cologne, Germany.
Though he had no formal training and did not fully engage with art until his 30s, Prangenberg did finally come up with a style that was uniquely his own, not fitting comfortably into the neo-expressionist or neo-geo movements of his time, in the 1970s and 1980s.
At this time, he was considered a major figure in contemporary German art.
Though he got his start with abstract paintings, he also became known for making sculptures of all sizes; and while his work initially appears abstract, the titles given sometimes allude to the human body or a landscape.
As a trained gold- and silversmith, as well as a glassblower, he always showed an attention to materials and how they could be physically engaged with.
He was interested in how his own two hands could affect the painting or sculpture's surface.
Traces of the artist's hand appear literally throughout his entire oeuvre, before he lost the battle with liver cancer in 2012.