Heino Naujoks

Heino Naujoks was born in 1937 and was largely creatively influenced by the 1950s. New York City became the hub of modernism on an international scale during the postwar period. Many artists had come to the city during World War II, fleeing into exile from Europe. 

This led to a substantial pooling of talents and ideas. Influential Europeans such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, and Hans Hoffmann provided inspiration to American artists while in New York and influenced cultural growth in the United States for many decades thereafter. 

Abstract expressionism, a form of painting that studied notions of spirituality and the sublime, dominated the 1950s. Many artists focused on the formal properties of painting, and action painting was inspired by the political freedom of the United States, in contrast to the rigid nature of the Soviet bloc. 

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Adolph Gottlieb were the predominant artists of this period. The male-dominated environment was later revisited to recognize the contributions of women artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, among others.