After Georg Herold, born in Jena in 1947, began studying art first in Halle in 1969 and from 1974 in Munich, finishing his studies under Sigmar Polke in Hamburg, he became a Professor at the Academy for Fine Arts in Frankfurt/M. Today he lives and works in Cologne. His objects and installations, often characterized by the use of simple materials, are marked by signs of refusal, of the provocative, of irony and the absurd. Since the eighties, Herold has occupied an important singular position in contemporary art.