Kategorie: Established

Corneille van Beverloo

When the COBRA group was founded in Paris in 1948, Corneille was one of the defining artists of this group. The group existed until 1951 and has taken on great importance for the development of modern painting. Corneille’s works have been shown in major museums and galleries around the world in individual presentations as well… Continue reading Corneille van Beverloo

Carl Strüwe

Carl Strüwe (1898-1988) was a graphic designer and photographer based in Bielefeld (West Germany), known as the father of microphotography as art.

Moshe Kupferman

Moshe Kupferman moved to Israel in 1948 and helped to establish a kibbutz (settlement) in the Galilee. While living and working in the relative isolation of the settlement, Kupferman practiced painting and developed an artistic style heavily informed by the religious discipline and rigor of kibbutz life. His abstract works were created through an intricate… Continue reading Moshe Kupferman

Günther Uecker

Sinai, the mountain on which the Ten Commandments were handed over by God to Moses, on the way to the God-directed, promised land, the now liberated tribes from Egypt were stopped in the desert, “walking in circles”, transformed by the darkness of slavery, pure, worthy of entering the land promised by God. In the circle… Continue reading Günther Uecker

Raphael Montañez Ortiz

Rafael Montañez Ortiz’s attacks apply to the mediation and representation canon of American art, as well as painting and film. He is considered to be one of the first artists to experiment with video, film and television in the USA and one of the main initiators of the so-called »art of destruction«.

Sabine Franke-Koch

The paintings and sculptures by FRANEK are full of messages from distant and very close worlds, which are populated in archetypal punctuation by people and animals, things and hybrid beings. The signs in her pictures are “always a confrontation with people and their cultural development”, are “a search for traces of one’s own origin” 1.