konrad fischer (1939 - 1996)
Konrad Fischer (pseudonym: Konrad Lueg) was a German painter and gallery owner.
Lueg created so-called "Pattern Paintings" in deliberately chosen proximity to wallpapers. He cooperated closely with Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Ironising Socialist Realism, which was largely prescribed as the official art movement in the socialist countries of the Eastern Bloc, they created Capitalist Realism, with which they critically examined the consumerist orientation of the West, as in the demonstration Leben mit Pop (Life with Pop), realised together with Richter on 11 October 1963 — a demonstration for Capitalist Realism in the Düsseldorf furniture store Berges, with whose owner he was personally acquainted. Through this action they initiated German Pop Art.
