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Michael Ayrton was a British artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes.
Karl Horst Hödicke is a German artist, a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism and new figuration, and one of the most important representatives of German post-war painting.
After moving to Berlin in 1957, Hödicke encountered the eventful history of Berlin - the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and reunification - and reflected it in his paintings.
Christoph Jacob Trew was a German botanist.
He was originally a city solicitor, court physician, Count Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire, an advisor to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. He also had an academic passion for botany. He was a member of the Royal Society of London, the Berlin Academy, and the Florentine Botanical Society. His interest in botany then led him to sponsor the publication of illustrated botanical books.
