Hans Peter Riegel

Hans Peter Riegel became known to a wider public as the author of the biographies of Jörg Immendorff and Joseph Beuys, as well as with critical, journalistic publications on the art world. He is also active as a screenwriter and director as well as a visual artist. His works can be found in important public and private collections.

BEUYS Hans Peter Riegel's biography attracted worldwide attention and is now the standard work on Joseph Beuys.

"Riegel's book sets the standard for the historical-critical examination of Joseph Beuys." Boris Pofalla, DIE WELT

Eduard Braucamp in the FAZ: "Riegel clears up many false idealizations and embellishments. His research makes waste of large parts of an apologetic or rapturous Beuys literature."

"Author Hans Peter Riegel has written a biography of Joseph Beuys in which he exposes the icon of the postwar avant-garde as a diehard." Ulrike Knöfel, SPIEGEL

IMMENDORFF, the biography about the Beuys student, one of the most famous as well as most controversial German artists of the recent past, attracted as much media attention as BEUYS. This book is considered the authoritative biographical publication on Immendorff and is at the same time a moral portrait of the German art scene.

Hans Peter Riegel studied visual communication, photography, audiovisual media, and art history. He lives in Zurich.