Contemporary art Leipzig School
Bernhard Heisig was a German painter of the postwar Leipzig school and one of the greatest artists of the GDR.
From 1942 to 1945 he participated in World War II as a volunteer in the 12th SS Armored Division "Hitler Youth", was seriously wounded, was in a Soviet prison camp and was released in Breslau as an invalid.
All these difficult events were reflected in Heisig's work. His unrelenting preoccupation with war made his work as manic as it was monolithic. Anger was what kept him working.
Wolfgang Peuker was a German painter and graphic artist and teacher.
Peuker attended night school at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts, later taught at the University of Leipzig, and in 1993 was appointed professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. In his visual art, Peuker's main subject matter was character portraits.
Werner Tübke was a German painter, best known for his monumental Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen. Associated with the Leipzig School, he is "one of the few East German artists who gained recognition in West Germany."
