rahmen (129 x 129cm)
Kim Yusob is a South Korean artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. After graduating from the Department of Fine Art at Chosun University, Gwangju, in 1983 Kim Yusob moved to Berlin. There he studied both at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in East Berlin and at the Western Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). 1995 he became Meisterschüler (Master Disciple) of Wolfgang Petrick. Since 1996 Kim has been teaching at Chosun University, where he completed Graduate School in 2001. From 2007 on he has been teaching at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). In 2014 he became Professor of Painting at Chosun University. Within his oeuvre Kim Yusob aims at providing new impulses for abstract expressionism. His process of painting unites religious, philosophical and Anthroposophical aspects. Due to Kim’s background it is also rooted in Daoism and the I Ching. Furthermore, Kim obtains a typical effect by applying special technique of decelerating the colours’ drying.
Walter Dahn is a German Neue Wilde artist who lives and works in Cologne.
Walter Dahn's work includes works of various media: photographs, drawings, logos, paintings, collages, stencil printing, installations and videos.
In addition to visual art, Dahn also works in music.
Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker was a German historical painter of the 19th century.
Becker studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, and later in Munich he perfected himself under Heinrich Maria von Hess and in Italy. On his canvases the artist depicted mainly scenes from Venetian life in the XVI and XVII centuries.
Karl Becker was elected a member of the council of the Berlin Academy of Arts, and later honorary president of the Academy, as well as a member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
William Nelson Copley was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur. His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art.