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For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-kno[...]
Like his contemporaries Neo Rauch and Michael Triegel, Leipzig painter Peter Krauskopf (born 1966) was a student of Arno Rink, who encouraged his students to pursue their own paths, however unfashionable they might seem. Following this advice, Krauskopf initially embraced classical landscape paintin[...]