About the Artist Wolfgang Peuker

Wolfgang Peuker (1945–2001) was shaped by the Leipzig School: from 1965 to 1970 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) in Leipzig under Harry Blume, Werner Tübke, Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer. His figurative, precisely composed paintings combine this training with a cool, distinctive view of people and contemporary history. Born in Ústí nad Labem, Peuker taught at the HGB Leipzig from 1977 to 1989 and from 1993 as a professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. In 1994 he moved to Groß Glienicke near Berlin, where he died in 2001.