Gerd Harry Lybke’s gallery Eigen + Art has been in business nearly 25 years and is credited with bringing its stable of Leipzig artists to the international arena, a move that began in earnest after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before then, Lybke was operating his gallery underground, illegally showing works in his apartment due to East German restrictions on public-service work. He opened a second space in Berlin in 1992, but remained focused on Leipzig art. This was a canny decision, as interest in this school of art has since exploded: stable artists such as Neo Rauch (whose works were part of a big show this year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Tim Eitel (who recently showed at the gallery in Leipzig and previously at PaceWildenstein in New York) command solo shows as well as high prices.
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