Leipzig School (painting)

The movement had its centre at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, where several of the most prominent members were teachers.

The first origins of the Leipzig School are rooted in the city's art scene in the 1960s.

Heisig's works belong to a group of expressive and colorfully passionate pictures.

The second group, to which Mattheuer and Tübke are counted, is more factual and formally strict.

The art of the GDR has the Leipzig School to thank for the fact that the framework of socialist realism prescribed by the party was abandoned in the 1970s and 1980s.