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Ulrich Erben is a German painter. From 1980 to 2005, he was a Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie Münster (University of Fine Arts Münster). He is known as a master of the color field style of abstract painting, closely related to abstract expressionism, in which he creates tension between a defined surface structure, his own method of applying paint to a canvas, and the relationship of various shades of white or color to each other in their placement as part of a composition on the flat plane of a canvas. In 1986 and 2008, he was awarded the Konrad-von-Soest Prize for Visual Arts by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Landscape Society Westphalia-Lippe).
Reiner Ruthenbeck is a German conceptual artist, sculptor and photographer.
Ruthenbeck studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, worked as a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, and as a professor at the Münster Academy of Art. Ruthenbeck commands geometric forms, he is a master of transforming space with unconventional materials such as crumpled paper or pieces of fabric.
In his work, Ruthenbeck subverts the familiar, using minimalist objects and simple everyday materials to explore architecture, perception, and in later works, sound. The artist's work includes sculptures, objects, and conceptual pieces. Between 1968 and 1972, he created several piles and cones out of ash, slag and paper. Later, he presented utilitarian objects such as chairs, tables and suitcases, stripping them of their functionality and thus flaunting their pure forms.
