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Anton Hiller was a Bavarian sculptor and painter. He grew up in a Catholic farming family in Sigmaringendorf, Hohenzollern. Hiller then studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Hermann Hahn (1868–1945), graduating in 1923 and worked later as a freelance sculptor in Munich from 1923, executing commissions for the Bavarian State Gallery and the Municipal Gallery.
From 1946 to 1961, Hiller served as a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, becoming one of the leading representatives of the Munich School of Sculpture in the third quarter of the 20th century. Hiller was a member of the German Artists' Association from 1952 to 1960.
Otto Eduard Pippel was a German painter.
Bernard Schultze was a German painter who co-founded the Quadriga group of artists along with Karl Otto Götz and two other artists.
Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. Rejecting various classifications of his work, Bacon said he strove to render "the brutality of fact." He built up a reputation as one of the giants of contemporary art with his unique style.
