Cornelia Thielemann was born in 1962 in Stollberg in the Erzgebirge (Saxony). From 1986 to 1992 she studied painting and graphic art at the Weissensee University of the Arts in Berlin under Dieter Goltzsche. On a scholarship of the DAAD spent time in 1992 at the Universidad de Salamanca, in 1994 at the Universidad de Granada and from 1998 to 2003 in Madrid. Upon her return, as well as her work as a painter she has explored the medium of film and the relationship between painting and dance. Thielemann lives and works in Berlin.
Christian Thoelke was born in 1973 in East Berlin. From 1993 to 1999 he studied painting at the Weissensee University of the Arts in Berlin under Wolfgang Peuker. From 2001 to 2003 he was a master student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig under Ulrich Hachulla. He was awarded a scholarship of the Käthe Dorsch Foundation in 2005. Thoelke lives and works in Berlin.
Hans Ticha was born in 1940 in Tetschen-Bodenbach (today Děčín, Czech Republic). Following the expulsion of the German population, he grew up in Schkeuditz (Saxony). In 1958 he studied art and history at the Educational Institute of Leipzig University. From 1965 to 1970 he studied painting at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. He has received many awards, including the Walter Tiemann Prize in 1998. He took part in the Biennale in Venice in 1990. Ticha lives and works in Maintal (Hesse).
Christina Renker was born in 1941 in Altenburg (Thuringia). From 1964 to 1969 she completed her study of ceramics at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. She has taken part in ceramics biennial events in Italy, Poland and France. From 1992 on she has run courses in ceramic design at various adult education centres. Renker lives and works in Berlin.
Erich Fritz Reuter was born in 1911 in Berlin. From 1934 to 1940 he studied at the University of the Fine Arts in Berlin. From 1952 to 1978 he became professor of sculpture at the University of Applied Science, West Berlin. In 1953 he received the first Prize of the Association of German Art Critics. Many commissions for works in public spaces abroad ensued. From 1966 to 1968 he was visiting professor at the University of Applied Science in Istanbul. Reuter died in Altenkrempe (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1997.
Klaus Roenspieß was born in 1935 in Berlin. In 1953 he attended evening classes at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin where he studied until 1954. He continued his training on a self-taught basis. He became associated with the circles of the so-called Berlin School in the 1960s. From 1980 he made regular study trips to Paris. Roenspieß died in 2021 in Berlin.
Salomé was born Wolfgang Cihlarz in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg) in 1954. From 1974 to 1980 he studied at the University of Arts, West Berlin, and was a master student under K. H. Hödicke. He was a co-founder of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in 1977. As one of the Neue Wilde group, Salomé worked on film and performances in the 1970s. He took part in the 1982 documenta 7 in Kassel and his work was featured in the West Berlin Zeitgeist exhibition. In the 1990s he commuted between Berlin and New York. Salomé lives and works in Berlin.
Jochen Schamal was born in 1955 in East Berlin. From 1973 to 1976 he completed an apprenticeship as a potter and then worked in architectural ceramics. He applied to emigrate from the GDR and settled in West Berlin in 1988. From that time on his sculptures have been produced solely in bronze. One of which is located in front of the registry office in Berlin-Mitte. Schamal lived and worked in Gussow (Brandenburg). He died in 2024.
Rita Preuss was born in 1924 in West Berlin. From 1946 to 1952 she studied painting at the University of the Fine Arts in West Berlin and was a master student of Max Pechstein. Up to 1990 she participated in numerous art-for-architecture projects. In 2000 she was awarded the Hannah Höch Prize of the State of Berlin for her life’s work. In 2004 a retrospective was held at the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, in the Nikolaikirche. In 2011 she was elected chairperson of the Society of Berlin Women Artists. Preuss died in Berlin in 2016.
Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler was born in 1956 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz, Saxony). He cooperated with the Leipzig group of artists “37,2” and later applied to emigrate from the GDR. He settled in West Berlin in1986. From 1988 to 2007 he sojourned between Paris, Amsterdam, Biel and Berlin. He has been a teaching professor at the Academy of Art in Dresden since 2012. Scheffler lives and works in Berlin and Dresden.