rahmen (40 x 55,5cm)
Robert Pudlich was a German graphic artist, painter, illustrator and set designer of the lost generation. His art was influenced by the New Objectivity. Pudlich belonged to the environment of the art dealer Johanna Ey. He was a member of the Rhenish Secession and the German Association of Artists. In 1936 he took part in the Nazi exhibition West Front in Essen. In 1937 his works were classified as degenerate art. After the Second World War, from 1947 Pudlich designed sets and costumes for productions by Gustaf Gründgens in Düsseldorf and Hamburg as well as for the Municipal Opera in Berlin. During this time he created a series of monumental murals, for example for the Düsseldorf Opera House. In 1955 he accepted a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
Horst Antes was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, a pioneer of the new figurative painting in Germany.
After studying at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts from 1957 to 1959, Antes taught there himself and later became a professor there.
Antes became known for the Kopffüßler (head-foot) image, which has been a recurring theme in his paintings, sculptures and graphic works since the early 1960s. Antes' work is represented in several major collections in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and elsewhere in Germany.
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.
