Dieter Zimmermann was born in 1942 in Słupca (Poland). From 1968 to 1973 he studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts in Halle (Saale) under Willi Sitte and Hannes Wagner. In 1993 he received the Fine Arts Prize of the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, followed in 2000 by a scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris awarded by the ministry in Brandenburg. Zimmermann has lived and worked in Brahmow in the Spreewald (Brandenburg) since 1981.
Bernd Zimmer was born in 1948 in Planegg (Bavaria). Until 1971 he worked at a publishing house. In 1973 he moved to West Berlin and took courses in philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 1977 he was a founding member of the Galerie am Moritzplatz. In 1979 he received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship and in 1982 a scholarship for Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1984 he moved back to Bavaria, where he has since lived and worked. He founded the Bernd Zimmer Art Foundation there in 2012 where, as an art project, he has been building a columned stoa since 2018.
Martin Zeller was born in 1961 in Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg). From 1983 to 1989 he studied communication design at the University of Design in Darmstadt. In 1993 he moved to Berlin. In 1994–95 he taught at the University of Mannheim. He has received many awards, including the European Photography Award in 1995 and various working scholarships. He has worked in Hong Kong, Italy and Switzerland on international photographic projects. Today Zeller lives and works in Portugal.
Heinz Zander was born in 1939 in Wolfen near Bitterfeld (Saxony-Anhalt). From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig under Bernhard Heisig. From 1967 to 1970 he was a master student for graphic art of Fritz Cremer at the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin before returning to Leipzig, where he lives and works to this day.
Fritz Winter was born in 1905 in Altenbögge near Unna (North Rhine-Westphalia). From 1927 to 1930 he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In 1931 he became a teacher at the Education Academy in Halle/Saale (Saxony-Anhalt). In the 1950s he co-founded the Zen 49 artists’ group and took part in the first three documenta exhibitions in Kassel. From 1955 to 1970 he taught as a professor at the State Academy for Fine Arts in Kassel. In addition to numerous awards, he received the Grand Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974. Winter died in Herrsching on the Ammersee (Bavaria) in 1976.
Britta von Willert was born in 1980 in Kulmbach (Bavaria). From 2001 she studied painting at the Weissensee University of the Arts in Berlin, and in 2008 was a master student of Werner Liebmann. Von Willert lives and works in Berlin.
Berndt Wilde was born in 1946 in Mildensee near Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt). From 1965 to 1970 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Art in Dresden. In 1974 he moved to East Berlin, where he was a master student of Werner Stötzer from 1980 to 1983 at the Academy of Arts of the GDR. In the early 1990s he taught at the Weissensee University of the Arts in Berlin and the University of Arts in Berlin. From 1993 to 2014 he was professor of sculpture in Weissensee. Wilde lives and works in Berlin.
Werner Stötzer was born in 1931 in Sonneberg (Thuringia). In 1948 he began his studies in Weimar and continued from 1951 to 1953 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. From 1954 to 1958 he was a master student at the German Academy of Arts, East Berlin, under Gustav Seitz. From 1987 to 1990 he taught there as a professor. In addition to the Will Lammert Prize, the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and the National Prize of the GDR, in 2008 he received the Brandenburg Art Prize for his life’s work. Stötzer died in 2010 in the Oderbruch (Brandenburg).
Hans Uhlmann was born in 1900 in Berlin. After studying mechanical engineering, from 1926 to 1933 he was assistant to Max Kloß at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. In 1933 he was arrested for distributing anti-fascist flyers. After his release, his art was condemned as “degenerate”. In 1950 he received the Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948 and later took part several times in documenta. From 1950 to 1968 he taught as a professor at the University of the Fine Arts in West Berlin. In 1975 Uhlmann died in Berlin.
Klaus-Peter Vellguth was born in 1960 in Nuremberg. From 1983 to 1989 he studied painting at the University of Arts, West Berlin, where he was a master student of Wolfgang Petrick. From 1994 to 1997 he taught lithography at the University of Arts, Berlin. From that time he has worked as head of the lithography workshop in the print shop of the Association of Berlin Artists. Vellguth lives and works in Berlin.