Remarkable Artists of the 20th and 21st century

This list tries to give a summary of the most successful personalities in the contemporary art world. It echoes the vibrant interest in contemporary art.


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A... Adel Abdessemed, Etty Abergel,s Sonia Abian, Marina Abramovitc,
Carla Accardi, Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio, Franz Ackermann, Doug Aitken, Haluk Akakçe, Ricci Albenda, Brooke Alfaro, Laylah Ali, Viktor Alimpiev,
Dave Allen, Darren Almond, Pawel Althamer, Pawel Althamer, Kai Althoff,
Liliana Amielli, Carlos Amorales, Mamma Andersson, Pat Andrea,
Emmanuelle Antille, Alfredo Juan Aquilizan, Maria Isabel Aquilizan, Arahmaiani, Juan Araujo, Arcagrup Alessandra Ariatti, Richard Artschwager, Micol Assaël, Asymptote, Pablo Atchugarry, Atelier Bow-Wow, Atelier FCJZ,
Atelier van Lieshout, Kader Attia, Frank Auerbach, Avanguardie Permanenti, Charles Avery, Yuri Avvakumov, Zeigam Azizov,
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B... Ann-Sophie Back, Francis Bacon, Bahc Yiso, Maja Bajevitc,
John Baldessari, Miroslaw Balka, Miquel Barceló, Claire Barclay, Matthew Barney, Yael Bartana, Magnus Bärtås, George Baselitz, Matteo Basilé, Jean Michel Basquiat, Armin Baumgarten, Thomas Bayrle, Alessandro Bazan,
Beagles and Ramsay, Vanessa Becroft, Avner Ben Gal, Elisabetta Benassi, Samta Benyahia, Matteo Bergamasco, Joseph Beuys, Adolph Bierbrauer,
Zarina Bhimji, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Sylvie Blocher, The Blue Noses, Michael Blum, David Blythe, John Bock, Iñaki Bonillas,Cosima von Bonin, Ecke Bonk, Ingrid Book, Luise Bourgeois, Frank Bowling,
Martin Boyce, Kristina Bræin, Pavel Braila, Sergei Bratkov, Candice Breitz, Florencia Breyter, Ervins Broks, Marcel Broodthaers, Veronika Bromova, Glenn Brown, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Fernando Bryce, Christoph Büchel, Lee Bul, Erik Bulatov, Angela Bulloch, Bureau d’études, Daniel Buren, Alberto Burri,
Edward Burtynsky, Jean Marc Bustamante, Pash Buzari,
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C... Pedro Cabrita Reis, Aline Caillet, Sophie Calle, Campement Urbian,
Mircea Cantor, Cao Fei, Caracas Group, Janet Cardiff, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Merlin Carpenter, Susana Caruso, Paolo Cassarà, Franklin Cassaro,
Enrico Castellani, Alberto Castelli, Jota Castro, Cristina Casula,
Maurizio Cattelan, Ergin Çavusoglu, Jake & Dinos Chapman, David Claerbout,
Lygia Clark, Martin Creed, Minerva Cuevas, John Currin,
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D... Jose Dávila, de Rijke/de Rooij, Tacita Dean, Yayoi Deki, Thomas Demand, Stephan Demary, Rineke Dijkstra, Iran do Espírito, Peter Doig, Trisha Donelly, Sam Durant,
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E... Keith Edmier, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset,
Tracey Emin, Leandro Erlich,
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F... Omer Fast, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Urs Fischer, Sylvie Fleury,Luca Frei, Katharina Fritsch,
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G... Ellen Gallagher, Tim Gardner, Alberto Garutti, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, gruppo A12, Andreas Gursky,
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H... Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Charsten Höller,
Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, Gary Hume,
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J... Christian Jankowski, Miranda July,
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K... Dani Karavan, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Rachel Khedoori, Jeff Koons,
Valery Koshlyakov, Joseph Kosuth, Katarzyna Kozyra, Stefan Kürten,
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L... Luisa Lambri, Barbara Lehmann, Zoe Leonard, Atelier van Lieshout,
Won Ju Lim, Sharon Lockhart, LOT-EK, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sarah Lucas,
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M... Jorge Macchi, Michel Majerus, Teresa Margolles, Dorit Margreiter,
Fabio Mauri, Chad McCail, Paul McCarthy, Corey McCorkle, Lucy McKenzie,
Patric McMullan, Jonathan Meese, Julie Mehretu, Beatriz Milhazes, Helen Mirra,
Jonathan Monk, Julie Moos, Mariko Mori, Sarah Morris, Vik Muiz,
Takashi Murakami,
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N... Yoshimoto Nara, Bruce Naumann, Shirin Neshat, Ernesto Neto,
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai,
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O... Manuel Ocampo, Motohiko Odani, Marcel Odenbach, Albert Oehlen,
Chris Ofili, OHO Group, Roman Ondák, Gabriel Orozco, Silke Otto-Knapp,
Laura Owens,
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P... Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Simon Pavelka, A. R. Penck, Manfred Pernice,
Dan Peterman, Elisabeth Peyton, Paul Pfeiffer, Susan Philipsz, Richard Phillips,
Jack Pierson, John Pilson, Paola Pivi, Tadej Pogacar, Sigmar Polke,
Florian Pumhösl
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R... Walid Raad/theAtlas Group, Neo Rauch, David Reed, Tobias Rehberger,
Thomas Rentmeister, Jewyo Rhii, Jason Rhoades, Nuno Ribeiro, Daniel Richter,
Dieter Roth,
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W... Tom Wesselmann, ...
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Remark: We know that there are many other good artists. Please do not hesitate to send us your additions! mlp@mlpart.com


























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Interviews with Martin Leyer - Pritzkow


"Formerly a poster - now an original"
Interview with Andreas Herkens about the art market. Published in the magazine of the Aachener Zeitung and Aachener Nachrichten on the 3rd of March 2007,
page 4-6. Title of the issue: "enterprise art"


In her article "the new lust for art", published in the German magazine Für Sie on the 23rd of January 2007, Silvia Tyburski discusses art collecting with Martin Leyer - Pritzkow.


The magazine Bunte prints in it's issue of the 16th of November 2006 an Interview titeled: "Is a painting (from 1948) worth 109 Mio.?"
Martin Leyer - Pritzkow about the prize development on the art market.


Live - interview concearning the "Kunstkaufbuch" ("The Art Buy Book") with the authors Martin Leyer - Pritzkow and Klaus Sebastian on Monday the
25th of April 2005 - WDR 3
broadcast: "Mosaik" 8 am - 9 am



Recensions about Kunstkaufbuch
(The Art Purchase Book) :


In the article about the "Kunstkaufbuch" (The Art Purchase Book) published by the magazine Bunte Claus Dreckmann writes:
"There are many guidebooks. But the Art Purchase Book is up to now unique."
Bunte Nr. 44 / 2006, S. 104

In "Informationsdienst Kunst" you can read:
" "Das Kunstkaufbuch", is the guidebook by the Duesseldorf author duo Martin
Leyer - Pritzkow and Klaus Sebastian,
which addresses a broad audience.
(14,95 Euro).
Within 64 pages the authors give advice
on how to define the quality of art, which is new on the artmarket."
Informationsdienst Kunst, Nr. 324,
ISSN 0939-9259, 14. April 2005, p.22


Bertram Müller of the "Rheinische Post" writest: "For all of those, who want to purchase art, but don't feel shure how to do do it, now a quidebook is available. (...)
The "Kunstkaufbuch" (Art Purchase Book) inspires unexpierienced art lovers, to build up a collection."
Rheinische Post 9th of April 2005, Rubric: Knowledge/Cultur,
Headline: Compass for the hurrying: Das Kunstkaufbuch


The commerce magazine "Capital" writes about the Kunstkaufbuch:
"The autor duo Martin Leyer-Pritzkow
and Klaus Sebastian encourages to engage in art and even financially avow oneself to it."
CapitalVertraulich, (Finance letter to subscribers) Cologne, 24.03.2005, No.7


"Vogue Business" recommends the Art Purchase Book by saying:
" ...makes the reader the knower, maybe even the purchaser and collector of contemporary art."
Vogue Business 01/2005
Rubric: Design -Facts, News, Trends, p. 131


The first recension on the
Kunstkaufbuch could be read in "Der Spiegel" even before the book was published.
Spiegel Nr.10, Rubric: art market, p. 191


More reviews you can find on the website www.kunstkaufbuch.de
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Publication 2004:

“Dialoghi Inversi" - Fabrizio Gazzarri Monographyon the work of the artist Fabrizio Gazzarri, Editor.: Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, Texts in German, Englisch, Italian, 58 s/w + colour plates. ISBN: 3-00-012419-5, Price: € 17,50, plus € 3,50 forwarding expenses.