Claus Otto Paeffgen, born in Cologne in 1933, studied law in Cologne and Berlin until 1962. It was not until 1970 that he began to paint and create objects. Paeffgen is well-known for his ironically commented outlines of photos and … Continued
Stefan Szczesny, born 1951 in Munich, is a German painter, sculptor and photographer, who became known in the 1980s as a representative and protagonist of the Neue Wilde. Szczesny traveled to the Caribbean for the first time in 1990, which … Continued
Mary Bauermeister, born 1934 in Frankfurt a.M., was one of the defining figures of the avant-garde scene in the Rhineland in the early 1960s and is an internationally known artist. Her studio in Cologne was a center of the new … Continued
John Anthony Baldessari, 1931 – 2020, was an American conceptual artist. He known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California, where he died on 2nd of January. Initially … Continued
Ford Beckman was born 1952 in Columbus, Ohio; he died in 2014. He is best known for his Black Wall Paintings and his Pop Paintings, in which Beckman overpainted screen prints of clowns. He had cooperated with Heinz-Günter Mebusch for … Continued
Günter Brus, born 1938 in Styria, is an Austrian artist and one of the most radical representatives of Viennese actionism. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in 1970 (shortly before the abolition of this form of punishment). He lived … Continued
Jürgen Klauke, born 1943 in Kliding near Chochem/Mosel, is a German artist. Beginning in the 1960s, he started to make his own body the instrument and projection surface of his artistic ideas. He also experimented with minimalism and surrealism in … Continued
Milan Kunc, born 1944 in Prague, is a painter of postmoderne, ironic-defiant socialist realism. His style was also called “Embarrassing Realism”, “Punkpop”, “East Pop” and has elements of advertising, photography, street art and comic art. Kunc’s ‘Artificial Paradise’, coarse and perfect … Continued
Nicholas Krushenick, 1929 – 1999 in NYC, was an American abstract painter whose artistic style straddled the line between Op Art, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Color Field. He was active in the New York art scene in the … Continued
