//Moritz Reichelt

who caused a furore in musical circles as founding member and leader of pioneering avant garde band DER PLAN, came to painting in the early years of his youth, and at the tender age of twelve already had a piece of his work on show at the documenta. In his poster-style portraits, he combines the narrative elements from his painting with close observation and a charming depiction of the person being interpreted that becomes an individual feast for the eyes.
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//Marian Kolenda

has been working for many years as a graphic artist and painter in his studio in the Berlin “arena”. Fragments of reality and splinters of thoughts brought over through the graphic or painted medium are combined to create fascinating, unusual picture worlds. The setting of a personality into a picture expands far beyond the realms of the classic portrait so that it becomes a totally individual picture idea. A preference for music or literature - on the basis of the seismographic drawing method – can, as a complex ingredient, add to the portrait and make it complete.
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//Claire Combemale

Born in 1966 in Paris. After her studies at the Graphic School ESAG and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she came to Berlin on a scholarship in 1995. Claire Combemale creates wonderful and charming children´s portraits from photos, drawing on her experience as a contract painter for over 20 years. In a small format, drawn using red chalk or pencil, her works are intimate and timeless.
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//Käthe Kruse

member of the legendary performance group DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS (documenta, MOMA New York, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris), UdK and Heinz Emigholz Master Class graduate, offers three varying portrait styles: from photography on Berolina flag material to colourful stripes calculated through astrological data through to text portrait - her impressive works are convincing through a high level of artistic experience and a well thought out methodology.
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//Susi Pop

is not a woman, but is actually a label created through the Zwinger Gallery in Berlin’s Mitte. The often life-size magenta coloured screen prints count as some of the most instantly recognisable portraits in the Sippschaften “programme”. Old masters become trendsetting wall art. Especially good: the child portraits!
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//Bertold Grether

And here, portraits by a sculptor: the image of humanity, made from earth mixed with water, dried in the fresh air, burnt in a fire, just like over 20,000 years ago – and alongside this conforms to a form that presages our time, yet carries the huge contemporary within it – that is the area in which the sculptor Bertold Grether works with his modelled portrait busts. In addition, through his many years of classic training as a technician as well as being an academic sculptor with experience in international exhibitions and commissions, he can also offer pieces in bronze casting, copies in marble and other materials.
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//Bernd Pohlenz

caricaturist deluxe and the King of Toons, well-known in Berlin and throughout Germany, is currently causing an international sensation with toonpool.com. He sketches all of them sharply and cleverly: the rich and powerful, the movers and shakers. His works are not only suitable for the departing chief executive’s day of reckoning or for the sprightly stepmother’s special day. Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder bought his own Pohlenz original as long ago as 2003.
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//Ute Langkafel

runs the photo supermarket MAIFOTO on Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg, where she presents her broadsheet series of urban spaces. Just like her city pictures which are staged like road movies, in her portraits the models are integrated into situations managing to create fantastic-dynamic, very cinematic pictures. By using grainy, light-sensitive b/w material that she analogically assembles with neon-coloured offsets, a unique broadsheet original is created which is then digitalised.
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//Kurt Wagner

trained artist with a Master of Fine Arts degree and musician from Nashville, USA, best known as the singer of the fabulous LAMBCHOP, is currently the only member of the Sippschaften clan that isn’t living in Berlin. As friend of the house, he found out about the idea of the portrait agency early on and so we proudly present him as our furthest away member. His work is in black and white oils, which are strongly applied with pen and artist knife on to canvas or wood. He frames the portraits himself in beautifully curved skirting boards. Due to prior music production commitments, Wagner is only available for commissions from May 2008.
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//Inna Artemova

a trained architect, came to Berlin from Moscow in 1998 and currently still has a studio in the Tacheles. She paints “scenes from films that don’t actually exist” - huge acrylics, that are captivating through their vivid colours and impressed us greatly at the previous Berliner Kunstsalon. In particular, her “Girls With Guns” series won us over. For more peaceful commissions, however, she will be quite happy to include animals in the picture with her models.
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//Eva Licht

trained screenprinter and graphic designer, studied fine art in Bremen, played guitar in a No-Wave band and designed dozens of album covers (for Max Goldt amongst others). In 2000, she began her portrait series entitled ‘Künstlerin malt Künstler’ (Artist Portraits Artists). Meanwhile, she also enjoys portraying normal folk in acrylics or oils on canvas. The backgrounds are sometimes designed with goldleaf, which adds an iconic luxury to each piece.
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//Daniel Wiesenfeld

born 1969 in Buffalo (NY), grew up in in Germany, in the early Nineties he moved to New York City, since 2000 he lives in Berlin. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich and at Queens College, NY (MFA). Since the beginning of his multifaceted artistic endeavors he continues to be fascinated by the painted portrait and the attempt to capture the presence of a human being by means of paint and brush. Exhibitions include, among others, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Eaglerock Cultural Center (ECC), Los Angeles und Roulette (NYC).
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//Jennifer Karass
studierte Fotodesignerin, entwickelte schon in früher Phase ihres Studiums ein besonderes Faible  für altes Filmlicht, was ihren außergewöhnlichen Portrait-Arbeiten den ganz gewissen Hollywood-Stil vergangener Zeiten  verleiht. Liebevoll werden Ausstattung, Garderobe und Make-up auf einander abgestimmt , die intensiven Fotos  bergen Geheimnisse, berühren und erzählen Geschichten, weit über den festgehaltenen Moment hinaus. Sie entführen auf eine Reise zwischen Traum und Realität, bei der die Wahrheit die individuelle Interpretation ist. Glamourgraphie!
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//Anna von Bassen
The artist Anna von Bassen, born in Schweinfurt and raised in Würzburg, studied at the Hochschule der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, worked in film, taught in Berlin and worked as a set and costume designer for various theatres. Her mainly large-format acrylic paintings show people in everyday situations: day dreaming, eating or drinking, washing themselves or playing cards. Often, in long format, the "simultaneous pictures" demonstrate different levels of a simple everyday act running concurrently alongside each other. The style of painting is convincing through its freshness, lightness and great feeling for psychological expression.
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