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Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation," according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.
Peter Philippen (German: Peter Josef Maria Philippen) was a German painter and jeweler.
He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Pforzheim as a jeweler and then at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. At first he worked as a jeweler, but since 1965 he increasingly turned to painting and experimented with paints of his own making, often with admixtures such as sand.
