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Werner Peiner was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New Objectivity, but he would become known has one of the most talented official painters of the Third Reich.
Werner Peiner was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New Objectivity, but he would become known has one of the most talented official painters of the Third Reich.
Ludwig Wilding was a German artist whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art.
Michael Buthe was a German artist who lived and worked between Germany and Morocco. He exhibited widely throughout Europe during his life and is known for his eclectic and prolific oeuvre which encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation.
Heinrich Kamps or Heinz Kamps was a German painter and director of the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1922, Kamps first presented his work to the public by participating in an exhibition of the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland". Soon, in 1925, he was already appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, and four years later he took over the management of the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg.
During the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign in 1937, Kamps' works were confiscated and lost. In 1941 he was forced to leave for Austria and then Poland; in 1943 his Berlin studio was bombed by the Allies and almost all of his early works destroyed.
After the end of World War II, in 1946 Kamps was elected professor and director of the newly opened Düsseldorf Academy of Art, which he directed until his death.
Ferdinand Kriwet is a contemporary German artist and graphic designer.
Ferdinand Kriwet is a contemporary German artist and graphic designer.
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively.
Feodor Szerbakow was a German painter. Szerbakow's painting style was decisively influenced by the Worpswede artist and impressionist Otto Modersohn. His landscape paintings often show foggy moor motifs and sunsets, but also lush floral still lifes. Later he also oriented himself to the painting style of Anton Burger.
Dóra Maurer is a Hungarian visual artist whose work has spanned a 50-year career. She works in almost every medium, from film and photography, to painting, performance, and sculpture. Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde work, Maurer has developed her art career from works with contemporary and modern influences that have been shown worldwide. Her art is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Most of Maurer's work follows the theme of showing options to the viewer and what the viewer can do with those options. Many of her works break down simple actions so the viewer can really view the piece as movement, not a photograph of movement. Dóra Maurer has in addition been a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Budapest and a curator.
Reinhard Minkewitz is a German graphic artist and draftsman.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, lives and works in this city.
The figurative artist Minkewitz works on large format paintings, in addition he creates sculptures, ceramics, art prints and also collaborates with the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
Reinhard Minkewitz is a German graphic artist and draftsman.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, lives and works in this city.
The figurative artist Minkewitz works on large format paintings, in addition he creates sculptures, ceramics, art prints and also collaborates with the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
Jean Leppien (born Kurt Leppien) was a German-French painter.
From 1929, Leppien studied at the Bauhaus Dessau with Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He lived in France since 1933, from where he was deported in 1944. After the war he stayed in France as Jean Leppien, where he exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Leppien is one of the most important representatives of the Geometric abstraction in France. Stylistically, he is close to painters such as Alberto Magnelli, Jean Deyrolle, Michel Seuphor, Emile Gilioli and Aurélie Nemours.
Jesús Rafael García Soto was a Venezuelan artist, renowned for his pioneering work in kinetic and op art, which sought to create an immersive experience that blurred the lines between the artwork and the viewer. Born in 1923, Soto embarked on a journey that would see him at the forefront of a movement that emphasized the visual dynamics of art, integrating sculpture, painting, and viewer participation in novel ways. His exploration of geometric abstraction and optical effects led to the development of his distinctive style, characterized by the use of materials such as plexiglass to create engaging optical illusions and vibrant, moving sculptures.
Soto's journey into the realms of kinetic art was marked by significant milestones, including his participation in the groundbreaking 1955 exhibition, Le Mouvement, at the Denise René gallery in Paris. This event was instrumental in defining the kinetic art movement, with Soto alongside artists like Yaacov Agam, Marcel Duchamp, and Victor Vasarely, presenting works that invited viewers to experience art in a dynamic, interactive manner. His quest for a new visual language led him to experiment with the dematerialization of form, creating artworks that seemed to dissolve into their surroundings, thereby challenging the viewer's perceptions of space and form.
Throughout his career, Soto remained dedicated to exploring the intrinsic relationships between space, movement, and viewer perception. His creations, ranging from the "Penetrables" series—immersive environments made of hanging strands that visitors could walk through—to large-scale murals and public sculptures, have been celebrated worldwide. His works are part of major collections and have been exhibited extensively, including at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, demonstrating his lasting influence on contemporary art.
For art collectors and enthusiasts intrigued by the fusion of art and motion, Jesús Rafael García Soto's work offers a profound exploration of the kinetic art movement's possibilities. His contributions to art are not just visual spectacles but invitations to engage directly with the kinetic energy and vibrancy of the world.
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Frantisek Emler was a Czech painter, draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator, and stage designer.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Emler painted still lifes and portraits, but his main subject was landscape painting. He was the author of sets for several opera and theater productions and also illustrated several books.
Günter Weseler was a German artist. He became known for his “breath objects”, which make up the main part of his work. With these “New Species”, as he called his objects, Weseler was one of the most important German avant-garde artists of the 1960s and 1970s. At the beginning of his artistic career, Weseler kept coming back to painting. At times he turned to the fantastic, he painted cubist staggered houses, approached organic associations in abstract images with spatula work. In 1964, Günter Weseler began to study the phenomenon of breathing. In 1966 he went on to "visual shaping of the rhythm of breathing" with breathing balloons inflated with compressed air, about two meters in size, from which the air escaped again, and finally to the mechanically controlled fur objects. He placed his faceless, breathing fur creatures in the most varied of life situations. Depending on location, place and situation, they can completely change their character.
Victor Bonato, formerly Vittorio Bonato, was a German artist.
Yves Klein was a French artist, renowned for his innovative use of pure color and his approach to the conceptual aspects of monochrome painting. Klein, born in 1928 in Nice, France, left an indelible mark on the art world despite his brief career, which ended with his untimely death in 1962.
Klein is best known for his invention of International Klein Blue (IKB), a deep blue hue which he registered as a trademark color and used extensively in his works. This vibrant blue, which he developed in collaboration with a chemist, represented more than just a color; it was a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of space. His monochrome blue canvases, large-scale public performances, and pioneering works in performance art established him as a leading figure in the Nouveau Réalisme movement in post-war Europe.
Aside from his famous blue monochromes, Klein’s Anthropometries series, where he used nude women as 'living brushes' to transfer blue paint onto canvases, is another testament to his innovative artistic methods. These performances, often accompanied by a small orchestra playing his "Monotone Symphony" — a single, continuous note played for twenty minutes followed by twenty minutes of silence — challenged traditional perceptions of the artist's role and the creation process.
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Bernard Schultze was a German painter who co-founded the Quadriga group of artists along with Karl Otto Götz and two other artists.
