Modern and Contemporary art — German Post War
Thierry Noir is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these original paintings can still be seen on surviving segments of the Wall in art collections and on the East Side Gallery. Noir's work and style are now considered iconic, and Noir is also regarded as one of the forerunners of the street art movement as a whole. He continues to create murals worldwide in cities including London, Los Angeles, and Sydney.
Thierry Noir is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these original paintings can still be seen on surviving segments of the Wall in art collections and on the East Side Gallery. Noir's work and style are now considered iconic, and Noir is also regarded as one of the forerunners of the street art movement as a whole. He continues to create murals worldwide in cities including London, Los Angeles, and Sydney.
Thierry Noir is a French artist and muralist based in Berlin. He is considered the first artist to paint the Berlin Wall in the 1980s. He created brightly-colored paintings across large spans of the Berlin Wall and some of these original paintings can still be seen on surviving segments of the Wall in art collections and on the East Side Gallery. Noir's work and style are now considered iconic, and Noir is also regarded as one of the forerunners of the street art movement as a whole. He continues to create murals worldwide in cities including London, Los Angeles, and Sydney.
Norbert Prangenberg was an abstract painter, sculptor, and engraver. 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.
Peter Royen is a Dutch and German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, member of the Malkasten Association of Artists.
Peter Royen is widely known for his white silent paintings, for which he has been called the "artist of silence". Royen endlessly experimented with his beloved white, layering and layering it in different variations, combining it with other colors. Right angles, squares, rectangles, stripes feel comfortable in white, sometimes they are lost in it or even dissolve.
Max Schulze is a German artist. Max Schulze studied free art/painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1999 to 2005. In 2004 he became a master student of Jörg Immendorff. Schulze is co-editor of the art magazine schwarzweiss-eins/-zwei/-drei/-vier in Düsseldorf. In his work he deals with the artistic extension of painterly practice. Max Schulze is one of the two sons of the painter Memphis Schulze. He lives and works in Dusseldorf.
Ansgar Skiba is a German landscape painter. He studied at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1981 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf from 1983 to 1988.
Ansgar Skiba's paintings have an impressive intensity: a dynamic rush of colours, white caps dancing on the surf, lush vegetation that the artist paints on the canvas with his hands, wooden sticks or paintbrush handles and which now seem to overgrow in relief.
Ansgar Skiba is particularly interested in the interaction between surface and space. He often uses perspective, reminiscent of the view through a zoom lens: landscapes and nature are reduced to a small archetypal fragment and convey a strong impression of the beauty of the whole precisely by the reduction to detail on a small surface.