Born in Heinzendorf, Lower Silesia, (today in Poland) in 1930, Raimund Girke has been at the forefront of Analytical Painting. He participated at the 1977 Documenta VI in Kassel, Germany, along with Jerry Zeniuk, and is known for his investigations of the colour white. Between 1971 and 1996 he taught painting at the Berlin University of the Arts.In the late 1950’s Girke belonged to the generation of young European artists that overcame the subjectivism of Abstract Expressionism, and searched for new objective reductive expressions. Girke since then left out the traditional composition, and concentrated on putting the colour in order according to a line schedule. On paper, Girke achieves the same versatility and painterly freedom as on canva...