Ingrid HornefIngrid Hornef (born August 12, 1940) is a German sculptor, installation artist, curator and painter. She is a representative of Concrete art and became best known for using a dice as a random number generator in her series of works Alea iacta est (Latin for the die is cast). Ingrid Hornef acquired her professional skills as an autodidact and opened her own studio in 1985. In her early days, she was mainly concerned with pottery and attended ceramic courses in 1984 and 1985 with the well-known Japanese ceramic artist Takeshi Yasuda.
Rita RohlfingRita Rohlfing (born 1964 in Bad Oeynhausen) is a German painter, photographer and installation artist. Rita Rohlfing studied from 1985 to 1991 at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 1992 she was appointed "Master Student" (Meisterschüler) by Bernd Minnich and Roland Dörfler. She also received the "Dragoco Scholarship for Young Artists" at the Rudolf-Jahns-Haus in Holzminden and was honoured with an exhibition of her panel paintings in 1992.
Rivalry between Cologne and DüsseldorfRivalry between Cologne and Düsseldorf, two major cities in the Rhineland, Germany, apart on the Rhine, is now mostly on a sporting and cultural level, but based on historical and economic factors. Cologne was a Roman colony, and later a Free Imperial City, while Düsseldorf, a small medieval settlement, is now the capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The root of the enmity between the two cities is commonly cited as the Battle of Worringen on 5 June 1288, which, however, is to be regarded as "legend".
Joannis AvramidisJoannis Avramidis (en grec Ιωάννης Αβραμίδης, né le à Batoumi, République socialiste soviétique autonome d'Adjarie, mort le à Vienne) est un sculpteur autrichien. Joannis Avramidis est le fils de Grecs pontiques, la persécution et la mort de son père en prison contraignent la famille à émigrer en Grèce en 1939. Joannis Avramidis dut interrompre ses études à l'académie des beaux-arts de Batoumi en 1937. En 1943, Avramidis part pour Vienne en tant que travailleur étranger.
