Author Description

Norbert Wagenbrett studied at Leipzig University, which had been dominated for decades by the art concepts of Werner Tu bke, Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer. This "intellectual painting" was a fertile basis for the artist©s portraits of people, which were also rooted in the New Objectivity and the verism of the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties. However, Wagenbrett is concerned with the present day, fervently seeking people's unknown faces behind their everyday masks.