Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career of the prize-winning artist was crowned in 2000 with the opening of her own museum in the capital, to which she bequeathed over one thousand works from her unconventional oeuvre. Although she was socialised in the Soviet Union, until her death in 2007 Natela Iankoshvili never painted according to the dictates of Socialist Realism. Her highly individual works exhibit a brushwork that vaguely recalls the art of Niko Pirosmani, Paul Gauguin or El Greco, and radiate such colour force that their brilliance is often compared with that of jewels. This impression is also created by the strong contrast with the mostly black background of her paintings, which are all representational.

Stirring paintings, colourful picture collages made from countless scraps of paper, moving photo collages - the art of Tammam Azzam (*1980 in Damascus) is multi-faceted, political and topical. The publication provides a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of the Syrian artist and describes his career over the past 20 years. Twenty years of the life and work of Tammam Azzam - from Syria and Damascus via Dubai to Delmenhorst and Berlin, where the artist has lived and worked since 2018. The volume Bilder ohne Namen / Untitled Pictures traces Tammam Azzam's life and his art, from the early reduced paintings via the digital photomontages and the large-format pictorial collages to his latest acrylic pictures. Azzam's iconic pictorial inventions engrave themselves into our memory.