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Oskar Holweck was a German painter and sculptor on paper.
After World War II, in which he went to the front and into captivity, Holweck studied applied art at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, worked as a teacher, and was a member of the German Artists Association.
Since the 1960s, Holweck has created artworks almost exclusively with his own paper technique. Through various manipulations with this material, the artist actually created sculptures.
Heinrich Siepmann was a painter and belonged to the second generation of Constructivism.
Klaus Fußmann is a contemporary German painter. 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. His work has won several awards, such as the Villa Romana prize in 1972 and the Art Award of Darmstadt in 1979. Major presentations of his work include exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1972; the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1982; the Kunsthalle Emden, 1988; the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1992; and the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, 2003. In 2005 Fußmann completed a monumental ceiling painting in the Mirror Hall of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
Hubert Ritzenhofen was a Dutch artist who specialised in city and seascapes as well as genre scenes.
Helmuth Heinrich Liesegang was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, (sometimes called Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann), was a French furniture designer and interior decorator, who was one of the most important figures in the Art Deco movement. His furniture featured sleek designs, expensive and exotic materials and extremely fine craftsmanship, and became a symbol of the luxury and modernity of Art Deco. It also produced a reaction from other designers and architects, such as Le Corbusier, who called for simpler, functional furniture.
Giovanni (Gio) Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
