Neo Rauch German, 1960

Neo Rauch (Leipzig, Germany 1960)

From 1981, Neo Rauch studied painting under the legendary Professor Arno Rink at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts and became a master student of Professor Bernhard Heisig in 1986. Neo Rauch himself was appointed professor at this university in 2005 and then worked there as an honorary professor between 2009 and 2014.

He became one of the main representatives of the so-called “New Leipzig School”. This became synonymous with the realist painting that prevailed in the former GDR, while abstract and conceptual art set the tone in the West. At the end of the 1990s, the "New Leipzig School" became the focus of the international art market.

His works are represented in numerous national and international exhibitions and collections, including the Kunstsammlung Deutscher Bundestag, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum Bildende Künste Leipzig, Stedeljik Museum Amsterdam, Museum of Modern Art New York and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

He has also won the "Vincent van Gogh Biannual" award from the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht. In 2012, he received the Order of Merit of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and in 2018 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. And in 2019 he was honoured with the European Taurus Culture Prize.

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