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Bernhard (Bernd) Becher and Hilla Becher were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the 'Düsseldorf School' they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists. They have been awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
Günter Tollmann was a German painter, objectivist painter and sculptor.
He studied painting at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf and his painting was influenced by the style of German Expressionism and the French New School of Paris. In 1967, Tollmann created his first kinetic art object and soon received his first commissions for kinetic sculptures in public spaces. With his cylindrical shaped objects he achieved international recognition.
Günter Tollmann was a member of the Association of West German Artists and taught at the Bremen University of the Arts.
Emil Bartoschek was a German painter and Bauhaus-artist.
Bartoschek's later work turned back to the modern painting and produced a large quantity of impressionistic, abstract, expressionist and surrealist oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, tempera paintings, charcoal, chalk and graphite drawings.
Oliver Jordan is a German painter who lives and works in Cologne, Essen and Brittany.
Jordan studied at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf and at the Free International University (FIU). From a young age he developed a particularly keen interest in the realist and expressive tradition of painting, which he reinterpreted in a completely unique way. The impasto technique in which Jordán works gives his paintings a sensual character both in terms of surface structure and color. Jordan gives his paintings a powerful and masterful treatment, creating multi-layered objects, at the same time an amazing visual impression of illusion.
He has created many portraits of famous contemporaries, but in addition to portraiture and landscape, Jordán also depicts cities, creating entire cycles. Jordan has been studying Albert Camus and his texts through painting for over 30 years, he follows Camus' footsteps in the Algerian city of Tipasa, creating mesmerizing landscapes.
