Porcelain painters 21st century
Elena Graure-Manta is a Romanian glass and porcelain artist based in Germany.
Elena studied under the glass and porcelain artist Clausenburg (Romania), at the Romanian Academy of Fine Arts, and worked as a designer for the Avrig glass manufactory. In her work, she takes objects from everyday life as a basis and, endowing them with her imagination, creates glass works of art from them. In this way Elena Graure-Manta created a series of glass shoes and handbags, and later glass "luxury cars". Graure-Manta's glass objects are very colorful and contain many details, making each piece unique and interesting.
From 1995-2005, the artist owned the Vitrumex glass manufactory in Romania and works in her own studio in Erftstadt, Germany, near Cologne.
Reinhard Minkewitz is a German graphic artist and draftsman.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, lives and works in this city.
The figurative artist Minkewitz works on large format paintings, in addition he creates sculptures, ceramics, art prints and also collaborates with the Meissen porcelain manufactory.
Salomé (born as Wolfgang Ludwig Cihlarz) is a German artist. His paintings are in renowned museums and collections all over the world. Salomé became known as one of the members of the art group Junge Wilde (Wild Youth) or Neue Wilde (New Wild Ones). He also is recognized as a sculptor and Punk singer.
Heinz Werner was a German painter, graphic artist and porcelain artist. He lived and worked in Coswig and Meissen in Saxony.
Together with Ludwig Zepner and Peter Strang, he founded the Collective Artistic Development Department of the Meissen Manufactory.
Heinz Werner designed around 100 modern Meissen décors, including such popular ones as 1001 Nights, Midsummer Night's Dream, Blue Orchid on Branch and Hunter's Latin. Heinz Werner also created numerous unique pieces for the Meissen manufactory. There are several murals made of Meissen porcelain by the artist on and in public buildings. He mastered all artistic techniques. In addition to working with porcelain as a material, he especially cultivated watercolour, chalk and painting with oil and acrylic paints.
