Hans Ticha is one of a group of important contemporary artists, graphic artists and illustrators who have experienced and described the last 50 years of Germany’s daily life and history through their artworks. For Ticha and the others, the human is the central figure in works often with grotesquely enlarged hands and small faceless heads.

German Hans Ticha delivers with his oil paintings a first-hand narrative of how it was to live in a divided Germany during the struggle of ideologies. The artist lived until the fall of the Wall in East Germany and moved immediately thereafter to West Germany.?

Known for his graphic works and more than 60 book illustrations, Ticha’s social criticism becomes no less snappy when he is adjudicat...