Contemporary art Malkasten Artists' Association
Georg Grulich was a German painter.
In Düsseldorf, he documented the reconstruction after the Second World War and the advent of modernism, created monumental cityscapes of the new state capital and is still considered "the" Düsseldorf city painter of the post-war and reconstruction years. His works were shown in exhibitions in Venlo, Maastricht, Oostende, Geneva, Montecatini, Krakow and Moscow. He also participated in the design of the Düsseldorf carnival. In addition, Grulich was a member of the artists' association Malkasten, the Rhenish Secession (1947-1957) and district chairman of the West German Artists' Association (1957-1971).
Herma Körding is a German painter and drawer.
She studied painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, then in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Joulian, and also attended the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Herma Körding fought for the right of women artists to have their own exhibition spaces and for many years was the only female member of the "Malkasten" association of artists. Herma Körding painted still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
Peter Royen is a Dutch and German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, member of the Malkasten Association of Artists.
Peter Royen is widely known for his white silent paintings, for which he has been called the "artist of silence". Royen endlessly experimented with his beloved white, layering and layering it in different variations, combining it with other colors. Right angles, squares, rectangles, stripes feel comfortable in white, sometimes they are lost in it or even dissolve.