A Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum letétje a Hungart érdi raktárában

Yulikov has a special place among the nonconformists of the 1970s-80s: “as the only Russian representative of minimalism,” he creates abstract compositions, archetypal, geometric symbols.

Curt STENVERT is an important figure of post-World War II Austrian art. Starting his career as a painter, his way led through experimental film to montage-based object art.

Solomukha is a French artist of Ukrainian origin, member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. He initially worked as a restorer of icons, but eventually graduated in the field of monumentalist painting.

Uwe Pfeifer was born in Halle, Germany, in 1947. An artist of the Leipzig School, he studied under Wolfgang Mattheuer and Werner Tübke.

Sergei Shutov was born in 1955, in Potsdam, then East Germany. He presently lives and works in Moscow. He is a painter, sculptor, photographer, also known for his video-and sound installations – the first VJ performances in Russia are associ¬ated with him (1994, Ptyuch Club).

According to the proportions of the golden ratio, the painting Horizon is divided into two well-defined parts. The lower section displays a crowd of people, a montage juxtaposing individual characters of different age, gender and social class.

Anton Olsvang studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. The key feature of his art is the recycling of discarded objects and industrial waste.

Observing Leonid Purygin’s paintings, one will notice a broad spectrum of allusions, as his style can at once be associated with naïve painting and the universe of Hieronymus Bosch.

The large portrait statues of the collector-couple became a focus of the then West German public's attention from the moment of their creation in the latter half of the 80s − but this had nothing to do with their penchant for classicism or conservative style; the public outcry at the time was cau

Graffiti is a distinct group within the Ludwig Collection in Aachen, consisting of works by artists discovered in the mid-seventies, when they still sprayed their tags, blow ups and pieces illegally, on walls and trains.

Nikolay Ovchinnikov currently lives and works in Moscow. Already at a young age he used to frequent the circle of non¬conformist sculptors led by Boris Orlov (b. 1941), who is also represented in the Collection of Ludwig Museum Budapest.

Painter Sighard Gille was born in 1941, and belongs to the second generation of the so-called Leipzig School. He was a student of Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer, and he has had his own class of painting at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Design (HGBL) since 1992.

Tom WESSELMANN’s art played an important part in the emergence of the Ludwigs’ collection—the piece held in Budapest is in fact of key significance in this regard as well.

Leonid Baranov has a predilection for representing the scientists and literary figures of the 18th and 19th century Russia in his works; still, the result in most cases is far from heroic and monumental.

According to Victor Tupitsyn, the mission of Socialist Realism was to represent the Soviet identity and disseminate it through an official iconography.