post war art
Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation," according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.
Gerhard Merz is a German artist. From 1969 to 1973 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Between 1964 and 1969 expressive pictures were taken and subsequently first metal sculptures. Since the beginning of the 1970s, he has been increasingly working with room installations in which he manufactured references to literary and art history as well as political history, as well as with the development of large-format, monochrome, with lineset nets from pencils covered. At the beginning of 1977, he was represented with his works four times in a row at Documenta in Kassel.
Richard Ernst Artschwager was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism.
