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Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.
Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of them.
Klaus Fußmann is a contemporary German painter.
Fußmann was born in Velbert, Germany. He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1974 to 2005, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Fußmann now divides his time living and working between Berlin and Gelting on the Baltic Sea.
Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist known for his use of fluorescent light as a medium. Flavin's work explored the aesthetic possibilities of industrial materials and the interaction between light, space, and color.
Flavin studied art at Columbia University. He began creating his iconic light installations in the 1960s, using commercial fluorescent tubes of various sizes and colors to create complex arrangements of light and shadow.
Many of Flavin's works were site-specific, designed to respond to the architecture and spatial dynamics of the exhibition space. Some of his most famous installations include "Monument for V. Tatlin" (1969), a tribute to the Russian Constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin, and "Untitled (Marfa Project)" (1996), a permanent installation of colored fluorescent light in Marfa, Texas.
Flavin's work was recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. He exhibited his work extensively in the United States and Europe, and his installations continue to be celebrated as seminal examples of minimalist and conceptual art.
Flavin's legacy as a pioneering artist continues to inspire new generations of artists working with light and other non-traditional materials.