Römer + Römer

[2] Both studied painting at the Staatliche Kunstakademie (State Art Academy) Düsseldorf under A. R. Penck[2] and both were his "Meisterschüler" (master students).

Nina Römer is the granddaughter of the Soviet-era writer Yury Trifonov and the great-granddaughter of the Ukrainian-Russian-Soviet painter Amshey Nurenberg.

In 2011 they were bestowed with the special award of the Lucas Cranach Prize of the City of Kronach, Germany.

The motifs are distributed over planes of colour and fragmented into thousands of painted dots, which, seen from a certain distance, merge in the eye of the beholder to form a focussed image.

Light from fires and LED-installations, art cars, freak temporary artworks, "burns", and parties for, the subject core of a recognisable painterly aesthetic.