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I studied at the same time at the Hochschule der Künste as Middendorf, Fetting, and Salomé did, although I was in Hann Trier’s class, not Karl Horst Hödicke’s. Sure, we met here or there, usually in ”Exil,” Oswald Wiener’s restaurant in Kreuzberg, or later in the ”Paris Bar.” There was definitely an exchange of ideas going on, and the others were there, as well. Lüpertz, Baselitz, Koberling, and Hödicke were sitting at the other tables. Fetting, Zimmer, Salomé, and Middendorf, they basically belonged to Moritzplatz. That group was bigger. The four became known very quickly through the 1980 exhibition ”Heftige Malerei” at Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee. I was often wrongly ascribed to this group, but I was never a part of it.
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