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Thomas Helbig is a German painter and sculptor.
Thomas Helbig studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at Goldsmiths, University of London from 1989 to 1996. He lives and works in Berlin.
Although Helbig focused primarily on painting during his training, he now works with various media. Sculpture, painting and drawing have a balanced significance within the overall work. The starting point for the sculptures is often an already existing object, found at a flea market or in a second-hand shop. From the found object, mutating hybrids emerge in a process of construction and deconstruction, which communicate with each other in their many forms.
Diether Kunerth is a contemporary artist who lives in Ottobeuren, Upper Swabia.
Diether Kunerth studied from 1960 to 1967 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and was master-class student of Prof. Heinrich Kirchner. Kunerth soon turned his back on the city to work in Ottobeuren. Without being subject to the constraints of big-city art business, he developed a large and extensive oeuvre. In consideration of Kunerth's artistic significance, the municipality of Ottobeuren established the Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst – Diether Kunerth (museum for contemporary art – Diether Kunerth), which cost 4.7 Mio Euro and was co-funded by the federal state of Bavaria und the EU. The museum opened on May 24, 2014. In the ceremonial address at the opening of the museum, the president of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Dieter Rehm, described his friend as a "genius of the place" and a "genius of the Allgäu".
Hermann Ober was a German abstractionist painter and graphic designer.
During World War II he produced many landscape sketches and watercolors of battlefields, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Besides painting in the abstract style, Hermann Ober experimented for many years with materials and forms and developed his own relief printing technique. In 1951 he was one of the founders of the Salzburg Group.
Hans-Peter Zimmer was a German painter and sculptor. He was born in Berlin and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
He formed Gruppe SPUR in 1957 with the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and the sculptor Lothar Fischer. After a joint exhibition at the Pavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten in Munich, they met the Danish artist and philosopher Asger Jorn, who linked them up with the Galerie Van de Loo which exhibited them.