The sculptures and graphics of the artist Stephan Balkenhol, born 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany, evoke archetypical behavioral patterns of human existence and sentiment. From 1976 to 1982, Balkenhol studied at the Hamburg College of Fine Arts in the sculptor class … Continued
Alexis Akrithakis (Αλέξης Ακριθάκης) was a Greek painter, born in Athens in 1939. He met in 1956 the idiosyncratic philosopher George Makris who acknowlegdes his talent and encourages him to become a painter. He left Athens and moved 1958 to … Continued
Jean-Michel Basquiat, born 1960 and died 1988, was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the … Continued
Joseph Beuys, born 1921 in Krefeld and died 1986 in Düsseldorf, was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of … Continued
Wolf Vostell , born 1932 in Leverkusen – died 1998 in Berlin, was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring … Continued
Maurizio Cattelan, born in 1960, Padua, is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour), depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite, Him (2001) and Love Lasts … Continued
Yves Klein, born 1928 in Nice and died 1962 in Paris, was a French painter, sculptor and performance artist. He was a co-founder and leader of the Nouveau Réalisme art movement in France. In 1949, after coming back from a … Continued
Richard Prince, born 1949, is an American painter and photographer. Prince began copying other photographers’ work in 1975. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the … Continued
Martin Kippenberger, born 1953 in Dortmund I died 1997 in Vienna, was a German artist and sculptor known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking … Continued
Jonathan Meese, born 1970 in Tokyo, is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese’s works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a … Continued