Peter Krauskopf, born in 1966, currently lives and works in Berlin. He had studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in his birth town Leipzig and later continued as a post-graduate under Arno Rink. He is famous for his break with the figurative tradition of painting in Leipzig. Among other awards Krauskopf received the Falkenrot Prize 2015. His works have been shown in plenty of institutional solo-shows, like at the Mies van der Rohe-Haus, Berlin, the Forum Kunst Rottweil, the Kunsthalle Lingen and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren. His works have been presented in the collection of the Albertinum in Dresden; the Ludwig Forum in Aachen; the City Museum of Wrocław; the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen; the Museum Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen; Kupferstichkabinett and the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden; Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg; Berlinische Galerie; and the Paul-Löbe-Haus for members of the Bundestag in Berlin.