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Friedrich Vordemberge, also known as Friedel Vordemberge, was a German painter, scenographer and teacher.
Friedrich studied painting at the Weimar Art Academy, the Berlin Art Academy and the Düsseldorf Art Academy, with breaks to participate in the First World War. He was friends with Erich Maria Remarque and in 1915 belonged to the Romantic circle that Remarque depicted in his youthful novel Traumbude. In 1921 Vordemberge became stage designer and deputy director of the Rheinische Land Theater in Düren, and in 1923 in Worpswede and Bremen. Later he settled in Cologne and founded the Cologne Artists' Exhibition Association (Ausstellungsgemeinschaft Kölner Maler), became a member of the German Artists' Association and took part in its big annual exhibition in 1929 with an oil painting "Notre Dame de Paris".
Vordemberge became known for his intensely colored oil paintings, mostly representational or somewhat reduced to basic geometric forms; he also became a master of atmospheric watercolors and drawings. His main artistic themes are city, landscape, sea, and still life.
Returning to Cologne after the war, he organized the Rhenish artists' community "Cologne 1945". In 1947 he was appointed to the newly opened Cologne School of Art, and in 1959 he became its director. For many years he continued to teach painting at the Cologne School of Art and Design.
Jean Leppien (born Kurt Leppien) was a German-French painter.
From 1929, Leppien studied at the Bauhaus Dessau with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He lived in France since 1933, from where he was deported in 1944. After the war he stayed in France as Jean Leppien, where he exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Leppien is one of the most important representatives of the Geometric abstraction in France. Stylistically, he is close to painters such as Alberto Magnelli, Jean Deyrolle, Michel Seuphor, Emile Gilioli and Aurélie Nemours.
Bernhard Strigel was a German painter of the Swabian school, one of the most important masters of the transitional period between the Gothic and the Renaissance.
Bernhard came from a family of artists from Memmingen. He painted works on religious and historical subjects, but became more famous as a portrait painter. The artist painted many portraits of noble citizens of his time in the spirit of the early Northern Renaissance.
Strigel enjoyed the patronage of Emperor Maximilian I and in 1515 became his court painter in Vienna. Here in the same year he created one of the earliest group portraits in Germany, a depiction of Maximilian I and his family. In the last years of his life he gave up religious work and devoted himself almost exclusively to portraiture.
