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Herbert Spangenberg was a German painter of the Lost Generation.
Stylistically, Spangenberg's early work can be classified as New Objectivity, especially Magical Realism, although some of his works have Surrealist features. While his pictures in the late 1920s were achromatic and dark, from the 1930s they turned to colourfulness and brightness. From the late 1940s onwards, his style increasingly turned to abstract painting with a gradual abandonment of the object. In 1952 he exhibited a completely abstract painting in Cologne, but his pictures usually contain geometric forms, sometimes also formal structures, as in the painting Zug der Fische. The Synagogue Windows of 1960 could again be assigned to Geometric Abstraction, if symbols were not incorporated. In his late work, from 1968 onwards, he mainly created women's pictures influenced by Pop Art or Art Deco in dark tones, whose painted faces are occasionally grotesquely satirically exaggerated, as in some pictures of the Verism of the New Objectivity in the 1920s. Now and then they are slightly reminiscent of figures by Richard Lindner.
Charles Malle, born Charles Gleize, is a French artist. Mallet's work is varied and includes works of various styles and techniques, from impressionist cityscapes to abstract and minimalist works.
Mallet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 1950s. Mallet's early work was figurative and representational, painting cityscapes in the Impressionist style. However, he later moved away from this style and became associated with the Support/Surface movement in France, which sought to question the nature of painting and sculpture through abstraction and deconstruction of form.
Mallet's later work from the 1970s onwards is characterised by geometric forms, bold colours and flat surfaces. He often worked in series, exploring variations on a particular theme or concept. He also created sculptures and installations using materials such as metal, wood and fabric.
Mallet's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He has also been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice in 2009.
Mallet continues to work and exhibit his art today, and is considered one of the leading figures of the contemporary French art scene.
Max Liebermann was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important collection of French Impressionist works.
