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Magdalena Abakanowicz was a distinguished Polish artist, celebrated for her innovative use of textiles as a sculptural medium. Born on June 20, 1930, in Falenty, Poland, and passing away on April 20, 2017, in Warsaw, she carved out a significant place in the art world with her unique artistic expressions that often explored themes of crowd behavior, the trauma of war, and the individuality of the human condition.
Abakanowicz's education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw was a period of both artistic and personal growth, shaping her future works. During the 1960s, she began creating the "Abakans," large-scale textile sculptures that challenged conventional forms and expressed dynamic movement and vivid emotion. Her works often featured organic, tactile materials like burlap, resin, and wood, which added a profound depth and rawness to her sculptures.
Her sculptures are well-represented in major public installations and collections worldwide, including the National Museum in Wrocław, Poland, Grant Park in Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. These pieces are not just art forms but are experiences, inviting viewers to explore deeper psychological and existential themes.
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Gilberto Aceves Navarro was a Mexican painter and sculptor and a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Academy of San Carlos. There have been more than two hundred individual exhibits of his work, with his murals found in Mexico, Japan and the United States. He received numerous awards for his work including grants as a Creador Artístico of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes and Bellas Artes Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.


Wolfram Aïchele was an artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany, son of renowned animal artist Erwin Aichele. After training as a sculptor, he studied religious and Byzantine art, drawing inspiration from his pilgrimage to Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Mount Athos. Aïchele focused on painting icons using egg tempera, aiming to revive the pure iconographical style corrupted in the 19th century. He later moved to Paris, where he explored various influences such as Eastern European folk art, Persian miniatures, and modern artists like Chagall and Klee. Aïchele's work transitioned to a unique blend of figurative and abstract art, primarily expressed through watercolors and painted collages.


Harold Ambellan is an American painter and sculptor.
He studied sculpture and fine art in Buffalo before moving to New York City. The human figure is central to Harold Ambellan's work. He created monumental figures and drew extensively, leaving thousands of drawings. Ambellan was one of the participants in Roosevelt's Federal Art Project, which hired hundreds of artists during the Great Depression who collectively created more than 100,000 paintings and over 18,000 sculptures.
Ambellan remained committed to figuration in both his sculpture and painting. He was elected president of the Sculptors Guild of America in 1941, and that same year his work was exhibited in group shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
In 1944, Ambellan participated in the liberation of Normandy as part of the U.S. Navy, then taught three-dimensional art at the Workshop School in New York City. In 1954, for political reasons, Ambellan moved to France and remained there for the rest of his life, working and exhibiting throughout Europe.


Joe Andoe is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and also numerous museums including the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.


Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.


Edgar Augustin was a German painter and sculptor.
Augustin studied sculpture in Münster with Karl Ehlers, then was a pupil of the master Gustav Zeitz in Hamburg. His oeuvre includes partly abstract figurative representations in bronze, wood and plaster as well as paintings, drawings and graphics. Some of Edgar Augustine's sculptures are located in public spaces in Hamburg and other cities.
Edgar Augustin was a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg and the Special Association of Artists in Germany. In the second half of the 20th century, Augustin was one of the pioneers of figurative wood sculpture and is considered its most important representative.


Gerhard Ausborn was a German painter. He studied painting at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.
Landscapes, ancient sites and modern cities characterise the subject of Gerhard Ausborn's paintings. In parallel, he creates abstract compositions without objects.
The paintings are inspired by impressions the artist gathered during his numerous journeys to many countries around the world. The paintings were not created on location, but always afterwards in his Hamburg studio. They are not intended to be an exact copy of reality, but rather, in memory, what is seen is reduced to the essentials and combined with the artist's own ideas, sensations and experiences.


Jim Avignon, born Christian Reisz, is a German contemporary artist known for his bold, colourful and pop-inspired works. He has adopted a pseudonym to separate his creative persona from his everyday life.
Jim Avignon's art often incorporates elements of street art, graffiti and cartoon aesthetics. He is known for his playful and satirical approach to exploring themes such as consumerism, popular culture and the art world itself. His work is characterised by bright colours, simplistic forms and a distinctive graphic style that is both accessible and visually affecting.
In addition to his studio practice, Avignon is active in the art and music scenes, collaborating with musicians, DJs and performers. He has been associated with the Lowbrow art movement and has exhibited his work internationally, gaining recognition for his distinctive style and energetic artistic presence.
His ability to bridge the gap between visual art and popular culture has made him a prominent figure in contemporary art.


Janis Avotins is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1981. He was educated at the Latvian Academy of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Avotins works in various media, including painting, drawing and sculpture, and his work is characterised by an experimental approach to form and technique. He has been recognised for his exhibitions in international galleries including Serpentin Galleries in London and the Venice Biennale.


Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created large, highly-detailed allegorical collographs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white, consisting of ghost-white figures with oblong heads and empty, almond-shaped eyes, set against dark, patterned backgrounds.


Kenjiro Adzuma (Japanese: 吾妻 兼治郎) is a Japanese abstraction sculptor known for his avant-garde and innovative approach to sculpture and installation art, one of Japan's most important post-World War II artists. He also lived and worked in Italy for many years. He studied sculpture at the Graduate School of Art at the University of Tokyo and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he attended Marino Marini's class.
Kenjiro Adzuma was a key figure in the Japanese art movement known as Mono-ha (School of Things) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mono-ha artists explored the relationship between natural and industrial materials, often juxtaposing them to create thought-provoking installations.


Karl Otto Bachmann, a Swiss painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, began his artistic career in Luzern before moving to Zurich and pursuing freelance work. He achieved a breakthrough in 1943 with the publication of his "Faust" portfolio. Bachmann drew inspiration from his travels across Europe, often joining circus troupes for income and creative ideas. His paintings were characterized by imaginative and virtual settings, with themes revolving around the stage, carnival, and circus. Bachmann's elegant lines, delicate colors, and harmonious compositions made him a respected book illustrator. He actively participated in numerous exhibitions throughout his life, both domestically and internationally.


William H. Bailey was an American figurative painter and university professor at the Yale School of Art. Bailey is best known for his nudes and still lifes with eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathy, deceptively quiet atmosphere laden with mystery.


Jennifer Bartlett was an American artist. She was known for paintings and prints that combine the system-based aesthetic of conceptual art with the painterly approach of Neo-Expressionism. Many of her pieces were executed on small, square, enamel-coated steel plates that are combined in grid formations to create very large works.


Hernan Bas is an artist based in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Bas is known for his depictions of waifs and dandies, who are somewhat based on his own experiences, as well as his work with the material SlimFast and the paranormal. Overtime, Bas says, these characters have grown in his paintings and taken on different roles. Bas is gay and queerness often influences his work in the form of waifs and other young men, typically recurrent characters in his work.


Thomas Bernstein is a German visual artist and art teacher. From 1978 to 1985 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In addition to figurative works on paper, the sculptor, draftsman and performer also creates anthropomorphic sculptures from various materials, primarily silicone. The dominant theme in his performances is movement, the everyday and the absurd. While his pictorial works relate to questions of human communication, he shows abstract body-related forms in his sculptures. These can be found in his figurative drawings in a more naturalistic way.


Virginia Berresford is an American artist and printmaker.
Virginia Berresford studied with George Bridgman at the Art Students' League and in Paris with Amedee Ozenfan from 1925 to 1930. Berresford was known for her landscape paintings with strong composition and use of colour as well as attention to detail.
In the 1950s she opened an art gallery in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Art Institute and the Dallas Museum of Art.


Miguel Ortiz Berrocal was a Spanish figurative and abstract sculptor. He is best known for his puzzle sculptures, which can be disassembled into many abstract pieces. These works are also known for the miniature artworks and jewelry incorporated into or concealed within them, and the fact that some of the sculptures can be reassembled or reconfigured into different arrangements. Berrocal's sculptures span a wide range of physical sizes from monumental outdoor public works, to intricate puzzle sculptures small enough to be worn as pendants, bracelets, or other body ornamentation.


Alexander Besel is a German painter who was born in Kyrgyzstan (USSR).
He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts and is committed to figurative painting in his work. Alexander Bezel's art confronts the viewer directly and confrontationally, but at the same time playfully and ironically. Through various forms, he approaches his central theme: man, his existence. In addition to depictions of existentialist situations and questions of identity, those that reflect people in their everyday lives are particularly predominant.


Elmer Nelson Bischoff was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.


Jean-Charles Blais is a French artist best known for his paintings and drawings exploring themes of identity, memory and representation.
Jean-Charles Blaise studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes before moving to Paris in the 1980s. Blais' early work was influenced by the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s, and his paintings and drawings were often characterised by bold, gestural strokes and figurative imagery. Over time, however, his style evolved to become more minimalist and abstract, with an emphasis on simplified forms and lines.


Karin Blum is a talented German artist. Her artistic education began at a vocational school, but as her art developed, she immersed herself in the world of painting and freehand drawing, studying them at the Academy of Fine Arts under distinguished professors Günter Vogsamer and Clemens Fischer.
Karin Blum was honoured with foreign scholarships from the Student Foundation of the German People in Paris and the German Academic Exchange Service in London, giving her new perspectives and inspiration.
In addition to her artistic career, Karin Blum taught at the Education Centre of Nuremberg. She has also made a significant contribution to the field of art therapy, conducting sessions at the Bayreuth District Hospital, helping people find a path to healing and self-expression through art.
Deservedly recognised for her artistic achievements, Karin Blum was awarded the Nurnberg Nachrichten Art Prize (Prize of Recognition), the cultural prize of the city of Nuremberg.


Jonathan Borofsky is an American artist known for his public sculptures and installations that explore themes of human consciousness, individuality, and interconnectedness.
Borofsky studied at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. In the 1970s, he gained recognition for his conceptual and performance works, which often incorporated elements of language, text, and repetition.
In the 1980s, Borofsky began creating large-scale public sculptures, many of which feature human figures or silhouettes. One of his most famous works is "Molecule Man," a 100-foot-tall sculpture of three interconnected figures located in Berlin, Germany.
Borofsky's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. He has also created public artworks in cities such as New York, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.
In addition to his art, Borofsky is known for his interest in meditation and spirituality, which he often incorporates into his work. He has published several books on these topics.
Borofsky continues to live and work in Ogunquit, Maine, where he maintains a studio and creates new works of art.


Arun Bose was a prominent Indian artist born in Dhaka, then part of British India (now Bangladesh). He received his art education in Calcutta at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, graduating in 1955. Thereafter, he actively created and taught in Calcutta for the next seven years. In 1962, he travelled to the West where he learnt etching and studied mural techniques at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His many prints were made in aquatint and etching techniques with simultaneous colour printing. He later moved to New York, where he studied at the Pratt Graphic Centre and in 1968 received a scholarship from the Third John D. Rockefeller. He was also part of Robert Blackburn's workshop and taught printmaking himself at Queens College.
Arun Bose's paintings and prints are characterised by bright colours and abstraction, making his work unique and important in the art world.


Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian painter and sculptor, celebrated for his volumetric stylization of figures and objects in his works. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Botero's signature style, known as "Boterismo", portrays people and animals in exaggerated and inflated shapes, often conveying social criticism or humor.
Fernando Botero's journey into the art world was marked by his early rejection of traditional artistic paths, opting instead to explore an innovative style that would later dominate his career. His art, infused with a mix of political satire and playful humor, has graced numerous galleries and public spaces worldwide. Notable public installations include his sculptures in Park Avenue, New York City, and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. His works are in the collections of many major international museums and have fetched high sums at auctions.
Fernando Botero's ability to capture the human condition through rounded, corpulent figures has endeared him to a global audience. His notable works such as "The Presidential Family" and "The Death of Pablo Escobar" are poignant commentaries on Colombian politics and society. Furthermore, Botero donated significant numbers of his works to Colombian museums, enriching the cultural heritage of his native country.
His influence extends beyond paintings and sculptures, as Fernando Botero has also engaged with social issues through his art. His series on Abu Ghraib prison abuses reflects his commitment to human rights and his capacity to address painful subjects through his distinct aesthetic.
For those interested in the vibrant world of art and culture, Botero's work remains a testament to the power of visual satire and cultural commentary. To stay updated on exhibitions and auctions featuring Fernando Botero’s works, sign up for alerts and dive deeper into the rich legacy of this monumental artist.


Francis Bott war als deutscher Maler ein Vertreter der „Zweiten École de Paris“, also des französischen „Informel“. Sein künstlerisches Schaffen weist zwei scheinbar gegensätzliche Schwerpunkte auf: surreale, phantastische Gegenständlichkeit und tachistisch, geometrische Abstraktion. Sein Werk besteht aus Gemälden, Glasmalereien, Handzeichnungen, Aquarellen, Gouachen, Plastiken und Objekten; auch als Bühnenbildner hat er sich betätigt.


Katherine Bradford, née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies. Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.


Peter Brandes is a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist and photographer.
Brandes' art is abstract and often in brown colours. He had his breakthrough as artist in the beginning of the 1980s. He has, inter alia, done artwork on Roskilde Domkirke and mosaic (colored glass) windows in a church at Nordkap and the church Village of Hope, south of Los Angeles. In 1998, he created the enormous Roskilde Jars which stand outside the main Roskilde Railway Station.
Brandes is self-taught and his art circles around themes from Christianity. Ancient Greek mythology has also inspired his art. Brandes has illustrated a number of books, for example Homer’s Iliad. A great part of Brandes' ceramic works are inspired by ancient Greek art and mythology.


Hans-Ulrich Buchwald was a German painter, graphic artist, ceramist, stage designer and mask maker. His oeuvre comprises about 10,000 drawings, woodcuts and linocuts, paintings, ceramics, wooden sculptures and masks. It is characterised by a variety of artistic forms of expression. Buchwald felt committed to classical modernism, which he only became acquainted with after the war. He was inspired by George Grosz, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, August Macke, Franz Marc, Oskar Schlemmer, Fernand Léger, but sought his own style in various fields.


Hede Bühl is a German artist. She is known for her abstract paintings, which often feature bold colors and expressive brushstrokes. Bühl studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Joseph Beuys and worked as a freelance artist from the 1970s onwards.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across Germany, including the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Bühl's art has been described as energetic and intuitive, with an emphasis on the emotional and physical experience of painting. Her work has also been noted for its connection to the natural world, as she often incorporates elements of landscape and organic forms into her compositions.


Jonas Burgert is a German figurative artist living and working in Berlin.
Jonas Burgert graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and studied as a graduate student (Meisterschueler) under Prof. Dieter Hacker in Berlin, and his work has been characterized from the very beginning by its vivid originality.
Burgert's paintings are filled with fantastic figures of the most unimaginable proportions. In the spaces of his panoramic paintings, one is immersed in a visual chaos of narrative layers, amidst mysterious events, strange figures and creatures. Jonas Burgert's large-format paintings are dominated by the grotesque, the bizarre and the surreal. Nightmarish zombie-like figures invade his pictorial worlds, frightening and appealing at the same time.
Since 1998 his work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions around the world, Jonas Burgert is now very successful and his works are very willingly acquired by many galleries.


Luis Caballero Holguín was a Colombian painter, watercolourist, pastellist and lithographer. Caballero is known for depicting masculine figures, which often include both erotic and violent imagery. He is viewed as one of the most important figures in Colombian art.


Steven Campbell was a painter from Scotland.
Campbell's style of painting is figurative, with a hard linear quality to the application of paint. The colour palette is strong, with rich colours tending to be dominated by a blue-green light. Campbell would boast of being a very fast painter, although it has been suggested he liked to exaggerate claims like this.


Sobral Centeno is a Portuguese artist. He is known for his deep and complex abstract works that are characterised by an innovative use of form and texture.
Sobral Centeno's paintings are characterized by bright colours, bold and dynamic compositions, often featuring geometric shapes and patterns.


Antoni Clavé was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.
Clavé was one of Spain's best known and most celebrated artists. His work evolved from a baroque, ornamental style to a pure, minimal aesthetic. In his later years, his work is completely abstract, employing expressive lines and exploring the boundaries of collage, objet trove, shading, texture and color. He was trained at the School of Fine Arts, Barcelona, where he was taught by Angel Ferrant and Felix Mestres. With his works being influenced by artists such as Bonnard, Vuillard and Roualt. He is best known for his lyrical abstractions, works which combine paint with collage.


Robert Combas is a French painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Paris.
He is widely recognized as a progenitor of the figuration libre movement that began in Paris around 1980 as a reaction to the art establishment in general and minimalism and conceptual art in particular.
Figuration libre is often regarded as having roots in Fauvism and Expressionism and is linked to contemporary movements such as Bad Painting and Neo-expressionism. It draws on pop cultural influences such as graffiti, cartoons and rock music in an attempt to produce a more varied, direct and honest reflection of contemporary society, often satirizing or critiquing its excesses.


Anthony Cudahy is an American painter. Cudahy's approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs, movie stills, queer archival images and ephemera, and art history. Cudahy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Cudahy's paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites.


Jaqueline de Jong is a Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist living and working in Amsterdam and Bourbon, France.
In her painting practice, she easily switched between different styles, from expressionist painting to new figuration and pop art, repeating motifs of eroticism, desire, violence and humor. From prints to large oil paintings, she displays a fascination with the grotesque and the macabre, especially in the more figurative works depicting creatures that are half human, half beast. It is as if they reveal the ugly or animal side of human nature that we usually prefer to hide.


Jean Degottex was a French painter and a pioneer of lyrical abstraction.
Self-taught, in the army in Tunisia and Algeria when he was in his early 20s, Jean painted his first figurative paintings influenced by Fauvism. In 1951, Degottex was awarded the Kandinsky Prize, and from 1954 he began to paint in the style of gesture abstraction. He was also particularly inspired by East Asian calligraphy and Zen philosophy.
Degottex painted large-scale works, often in series, and in the 1970s began experimenting with paper art, folding and tearing paper. His work has always been characterized by extreme minimalism, and the artist meditates for a long time before starting to draw.


Pavlos Dionyssopoulos was a Greek artist born in Filiatra, Greece in 1930 and passed away in 2019. He was known for his unique and colorful abstract paintings, which were influenced by the art movements of the 20th century, including surrealism and abstract expressionism.
Dionyssopoulos studied art in Greece and later in France, where he was exposed to the works of famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. His style evolved throughout his career, starting with realistic portraits and landscapes before moving towards abstract art.
He held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including in Paris, New York, and Tokyo. His works can be found in private collections and museums around the world.
Dionyssopoulos was a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts and was awarded the "Order of the Phoenix" by the Greek government for his contributions to the arts. He was also a writer and poet, and his poetry was published in several Greek literary journals.
Today, Pavlos Dionyssopoulos is considered one of the most important Greek artists of the 20th century, known for his unique style and contributions to the development of abstract art in Greece.


Johanna Dumet is a French and German artist and designer living and working in Berlin.
She graduated in fashion design from La Calade, Marseille, France. Dumet uses a variety of techniques, such as gouache-dyed paper glued to canvas, and creates paper sculptures as well. She is known for painting impulsively, with a strong sense of flow and without limitations.


Thomas Duttenhoefer was a German sculptor, draughtsman, graphic artist, and illustrator, and professor at the University of Mannheim.
In addition to his human figures, Thomas Duttenhoefer's figurative work includes many depictions of animals in a deliberately crude manner.
He is a member of the New Darmstadt Secession, the Palatinate Secession and the Argo Group, Speyer.


Klaus Eberlein was a German graphic artist, illustrator and ceramic sculptor. He initially completed training as a chromolithographer. From 1962 to 1968 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and from 1968 he was a master student of Hermann Kaspar, receiving a final diploma from the academy. Eberlein was a member of the Association for Original Etching, the Dachau Artists' Association and the Munich Artists' Association. In 2013 he was accepted into the South German literary association Münchner Turmschreiber.


Nicole Eisenman is French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012, 2019). On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."


Edgar Carl Alfons Ende was a German surrealist painter, father of children's author Michael Ende and member of the Munich Secession.
Edgar Ende's work belongs to the tradition of fantasy and visionary art, and is considered one of the most important contributions of twentieth-century German painting to this style.
By the end of 1936 his paintings were considered 'degenerate art', and his work and exhibitions were banned by the Nazi regime. After the end of the war, Edgar Ende was one of the co-founders of the professional association of Munich artists, and for the first time participated in the Venice Biennale.
Since 1963 he has been an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.


Albert Ennemoser is a contemporary Austrian artist. Traveled extensively throughout Europe, USA, Africa and Asia. In 1972 he immigrated to Ireland, then moved to Scotland. He studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and Jordanhill College of Education. Worked as an illustrator for BBC-TV-Scotland and as a designer for NAEF in Switzerland. He received several awards and was artistic director of the Tiroler Literaturwettbewerb für Jugendliche. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.


Bruno Erdmann was a German artist of informal and concrete painting. He was known for his contribution to the field of abstract art.
Bruno Erdmann's work was mainly focused on abstraction, where he sought to express emotions and ideas through non-representational forms and colours. He adopted the principles of abstract expressionism, emphasising spontaneous and gestural brushwork as well as an exploration of texture and surface.
Throughout his career, Erdmann experimented with various materials and techniques, including oil and acrylic paints, mixed media and collage. He often used bright and bold colours, creating dynamic compositions that conveyed a sense of energy and movement.
Although Erdmann's work is associated with abstraction, he explored other artistic styles and genres throughout his career. He experimented with figurative elements, landscapes and still lifes, demonstrating his versatility as an artist.


Inge Feilcke-Volbrecht was a German artist who studied at the State Art School in Hamburg with Erich Hartmann and Professor Willem Grimm.
The central theme in Inge Feilke-Volbrecht's work is the human being, particularly dramatic and enigmatic. In doing so, the artist strives for a clear language of colour, form and composition.


Rainer Fetting is a German painter and sculptor.
Rainer Fetting was one of the co-founders and main protagonists of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, founded in the late 1970s by a group of young artists (mainly painters) from the class of Karl Horst Hödicke at the former Berliner Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Berlin Art Academy, today known as Universität der Künste). Fetting is now one of the internationally best known contemporary German artists, having created a large oeuvre of expressive figurative paintings covering many different kinds of subject-matter, as well as many bronze sculptures.


Fritz Fleer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in the class of Edwin Paul Scharf.
As independent artist, Fritz Fleer has been creating works for urban planning since the 1950s; in Hamburg he was commissioned for 17 sculptures by the municipal housing company SAGA.


René Francisco is a Cuban contemporary artist living in Havana.
René Francisco is an artist who has done a lot for the cause of conceptual art and community development. His commitment to El Romerillo, one of Havana's most notorious slums, extends beyond artistic interest. In 2003 he received a grant from a foundation in Berlin that he decided to use to give an art project to the foundation and help residents of El Romerillo at the same time. He renovated Rosa Estévez's house and his Casa de Rosa pictures were exhibited in Berlin late in 2003. In 2004, René Francisco turned the yard of Marcelina Ochoa, who everyone in El Romerillo called “Nin”, into a garden. He also provided her medical treatments. He exhibited his documentation of El Patio de Nin at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007.


Julio Galán was a Mexican artist and architect. Galán was one of Latin America's neo-expressionist painters of the end of the last century and the beginning of this one. His paintings and collages are full of elements that usually represent his life.


Nicolás García Uriburu was an Argentine contemporary artist, landscape architect, and ecologist. His work in land art was aimed at raising consciousness about environmental issues such as water pollution.


Stephan Geisler is a German painter and draftsman who has exhibited his works nationally, as well as in Azerbaijan, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain. His artistic practice centers around the search for intensity. For Geisler, intensity is expressed through the inspiration, emotion, and empathy of an encounter. In his creative process, he also engages in a dialogue with the resulting imagery, continuously exploring and questioning every step.


Gregory Joseph Gillespie was an American magic realist painter.
Gillespie became known for meticulously painted figurative paintings, landscapes, and self portraits, often with a fantastical element. Many of his early works were made by painting over photographs cut from newspapers or magazines, transforming the scenes through photographic collage and by adding imaginary elements. In his later work he abandoned his early fascination with creating hyper-realized realistic imagery, instead focusing on a looser and more expressive style. He often combined media in an unorthodox way to create shrine-like assemblages.
Gillespie's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, and the Butler Institute of American Art, among others.


Françoise Gilot is a French painter, illustrator, and writer. She has published several books, including a memoir about her life with Pablo Picasso.
Gilot studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau. She began exhibiting her work in the 1940s and quickly gained recognition for her colorful and vibrant paintings. Gilot's early work was influenced by the cubist and surrealist movements, but she developed her own unique style over time, characterized by bold colors and strong lines.
Gilot is also known for her personal life, particularly her relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. She wrote a memoir, "Life with Picasso," which was published in 1964 and became a bestseller. The book provided insight into Picasso's personality and working methods, as well as the challenges of being an artist in the mid-20th century.
Gilot has continued to paint throughout her life and has exhibited her work in galleries and museums around the world. She has also been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including being named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1990. Her work continues to be celebrated for its bold and expressive style, as well as for the way it reflects her experiences and insights as a woman and an artist.