1970-1990 DE
Norbert Bisky (born 1970) is a German painter based in Berlin, best known for his frescos depicting adolescents.He was born at Leipzig in the former German Democratic Republic. The son of a Communist official, he grew up in a home in which Communism assumed the power of a religion. He studied from the mid-1990s at the Hochschule der Künste where he was a master student of Georg Baselitz in Berlin and at the Salzburg Summer Academy in the class of Jim Dine.Bisky transmits an impression of instability on the canvas that distinctly resonates with our contemporary state of affairs.