Sabine Heller was born in 1956 in East Berlin. Her apprenticeship as a carpenter was followed from 1976 to 1981 by studies in ceramic design at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1984 to 1989 she lived and worked in the artists’ community at Burg Goldbeck in Brandenburg. Since 1989 Heller has run a workshop with Tomas Grzimek in Sieversdorf in the Oderbruch (Brandenburg), where she lives today.
Heinz Heisig was born in 1951 in Weissenfels (Saxony-Anhalt). From 1972 to 1975 he completed studies in engineering and business, gaining his diploma. From 1979 to 1984 he studied painting and graphic art at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. Since then he has worked as a freelance artist, has participated in many exhibitions and is represented in various collections. Heisig lives and works in Neuruppin (Brandenburg).
Anton Henning was born in 1964 in West Berlin. In the 1980s he lived in London, later in New York. Since 1992 his paintings, sculptures and installations have been represented in exhibitions in German and international museums and galleries. In 2001 he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize of the Academy of Arts. From 2018 to 2020 he taught at the Academy of Art in Dresden. Henning lives and works in Brandenburg.
Sabine Herrmann was born in 1961 in Meissen (Saxony). From 1979 to 1981 she was an intern at the Institute for Monument Conservation, East Berlin, then studied painting until 1986 at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin under Heinrich Tessmer and Dieter Goltzsche. 1989 she began her collaboration in the artists’ cooperative gallery of Wilfriede Maaß. In 1992 she received a scholarship from the Senate of Berlin and in 1993 the Art Prize of the GrundkreditBank, Berlin. Several scholarships for periods abroad followed. In 2016 she taught painting at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Herrmann lives and works in Berlin.
Gregor Hiltner was born in 1950 in Nuremberg. He studied from 1970 to 1978 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Fred Dahmen, and was a master student of Ernst Weil at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. In 1980–81 he worked in London on a DAAD scholarship. Among the awards he has received are the Lisa and David Lauber Prize, Nuremberg. In addition to painting, since 1998 he has engaged in multimedia projects. In 1991 he moved into a studio in Hahnhof near Feucht (Bavaria). Hiltner lives and works in Berlin.
Karl Horst Hödicke was born in 1938 in Nuremberg. From 1959 to 1964 he studied painting at the University of the Fine Arts, West Berlin, under Fred Thieler. In 1964 he was a co-initiator of the self-help gallery Grossgörschen 35 in West Berlin. A period in New York was followed by a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1967 his work featured in documenta 6. From 1974 to 2005 he taught as a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and in 1988 received the Fred Thieler Prize. Hödicke died 2024 in Berlin.
Thomas Hornemann was born in 1943 in Hamburg. After an apprenticeship he studied from 1962 to 1968 at the School of Applied Arts in Basel (Switzerland). From 1969 to 1974 he was a freelance artist in Cologne, where he co-founded Galerie EXIT. In 1975 he moved to West Berlin, where he was a member of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in 1980–81. In 1987 and 1992 he was awarded scholarships of the senator for cultural affairs in Berlin. From 1999 to 2001 he taught at the University of Arts in Berlin. Hornemann lives and works in Berlin.
Burkhard Held was born in 1953 in West Berlin. From 1972 to 1978 he studied at the University of the Arts, West Berlin. From 1979-80 he studied for one year in Garrucha (Spain) with a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. From 1993 until his retirement, he was a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. Held lives and works in Berlin.
Bernhard Heisig was born in 1925 in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). From 1949 to 1951 he studied at the University of Applied Arts in Leipzig. From 1961 to 1964 he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. In 1968 he left the Academy. In 1972 he was nominated as a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR. From 1976 to 1987 he was rector of the Academy in Leipzig. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6. In 1989 Heisig resigned from all his positions and returned the National Prize awards that he had won. In the 1990s he was involved in the artistic design of the Bundestag (parliament building) in Berlin. In 2010 he received the honorary prize of the Brandenburg Art Prize. In 2011 Heisig died in Strodehne (Brandenburg).
Frieder Heinze was born in 1950 in Leipzig. From 1969 to 1974 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig under Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer. In 1984 he was a co-initiator of the first Leipzig Autumn Salon exhibition. Collaborating with Olaf Wegewitz he produced the 1986 artists’ book Unaulutu, an art object that set a new benchmark for artistic creativity in the GDR. Heinze lives and works in Börtewitz (Saxony).