New Leipzig School

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was born 1977 in Leipzig. During her studies at the Academy, she went on several excursions to Russia, and Italy. She is the assistant to Prof. S. Gille.

Martina Munse participated in many national and international exhibitions in Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt, Sofia and art fairs. Her paintings have been auctioned off at Christie’s.

The paintings by Martina Munse provoke with their presentation of beauty. The subjects of her paintings – in which one can see the appeal of aesthetic symbolism - are the combination of Orient and Occident and carry the theme of freedom. The delicate and archetypal motives leave enough room for associations of the epoch of Art Nouveau.

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was born 1969 in Leipzig. As a member of a regime critical youth group (Junge Gemeinde), his chance to have a creative carrier in the GDR were shattered. He is forced to take an apprenticeship as a brick layer (“The most horrific time of my life”), works as a house painter, janitor, and nurse. In 1989 Fischer –Art is able to express himself artistically for the firs time: on banners for the Monday-Demonstrations in Leipzig.

Today these documents of a vivid time lie in the archive of the German Historical Museum in Bonn. After the fall of the Wall, he begins to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Max Ernst is his biggest idol. The Art Cologne at the beginning of the 1990s and Art Miami 2000 lead Fischer-Art to commercial and artistic success.

Since then he is seen as the young star of the German art scene. The social-critical artist found his own way in his style of “Economical Realism”. He recently made news at the Berlin List 2005, his solo-exhibit in Munich, and (as the first artist of the New Leipzig School) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He was personally invited to the Villa Roman, Florence, in the summer of 2005.

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(born 1982 in Leipzig) is a student of Prof. Astrid Klein at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. He is for intellectual clarity in art and stands “behind the end of painting” with his refusal of style.

He animates to think about and discuss his work, to simply get art itself going without using superficial phenomena. Hence, the question of “style” in Michel Schneider’s pieces is secondary.

Several exhibitions in Leipzig, Berlin and Sofia document the rapid rise of this young artist.