Educators German Democratic Republic
Otto Griebel was a German artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist who worked in the directions of "new subject matter" and socialist realism.
Griebel joined the Dadaists after World War I and was a member of the Dresden Dadaist group. He participated in various artistic associations, including the Dresden Secession Group, the Aktion group of artists, the Association of Free Artists of Saxony, and others. In 1933, the artist was arrested by the Gestapo and his work was recognized as "degenerate art". Most of the master's work was lost during the bombing of Dresden in 1945.
Griebel was also a talented puppet theater artist and created sets for puppet shows.
Wolfgang Opitz is a contemporary German artist known for his abstract paintings.
Wolfgang Opitz studied art from 1964 to 1968 in Erfurt and Dresden. He met A. R. Penck, with whom he made many experimental films in 1969. They also founded the group Lücke in 1971, together with artists Harald Gallasch and Steffen Koonert (Turk). In 1989, Opitz fled East Germany to the West, where he received a teaching position at Lüneburg University in 1991.
