Dietrich Burger (born 14 August 1935) is a German painter and graphic artist.
Born in Bad Frankenhausen, Burger studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Bernhard Heisig from 1953 to 1958. From 1964, he taught there, from 1984 to 2000 [1] as professor of painting and graphic arts.
"In Dietrich Burger's paintings and graphic art, one encounters an unmistakably high proportion of identity between life and work. Thus, not only do things he has lived through and experienced take place in a more or less encoded form in his paintings, but the pictorial landscapes also deal with existential questions for him. The painter's gaze, always directed towards reality, and a seismographically inward-looking registration interweave in the painterly and graphic structure." [2]
Burger stands for a constructivist variant of Saxon painting, with a high proportion of identity between life and work. His stations in life often determine individual forms of expression within his works. His early works are particularly influenced by classical French modernism, especially Corot, Watteau, Chardin, Picasso and Matisse. [3]
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
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Tilo Baumgärtel is a German painter. He currently lives and works in Leipzig.
Mark Lammert, is a German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and stage designer. He lives and works in Berlin.
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Axel Krause, born 23 October 1958 in Halle (Saale), is a German painter and graphic artist. He is associated with the New Leipzig School and lives and works in Leipzig. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in 1981–1986. He taught at the school in 1989–1999 and worked for the Leipzig Opera in 1990–1993.
Evelyn Richter was a German art photographer known primarily for social documentary photography work in East Germany. She is notable for her black & white photography in which she documented working-class life, and which often showed influences of Dadaism and futurism. Her photography is focused on people in everyday life, including children, workers, artists and musicians.
Heinz Zander is a German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and writer. Zander belongs to the Leipzig School. His fields of work are painting (oil), drawing, graphics and illustration. He is also active as a writer and publishes novels, stories and essays. Zander worked with painting techniques oriented towards the Old Masters, from which he developed a completely independent pictorial language. He was inspired by Bosch, Grünewald, Altdorfer, Cranach and Italian Mannerists. He works mainly with colourful resin-oil glazes.
Wolfgang Mattheuer was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. He came to prominence with allegorical, pessimistic and sometimes heroic paintings which were accused of expressing political dissidence. He was later an open critic of both socialism and capitalism. He taught at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) for many years. In 1974 he resigned from his position as professor at the HGB to work as a freelance painter. In 1988 he left the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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Walter Libuda was a German painter and plastic artist.