Ludger Hinse

Ludger Hinse (1948) lives and works in the city of his birth, Recklinghausen, in the German Ruhr area. His father and grandfather worked in the mines there. Hinse’s studio is situated in a former miners’ site. He is a painter, sculptor and performance artist. He also was a union activist. His work has been exhibited in both Germany and internationally, e.g. in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Chile and Cuba. For more work and locations of his crosses of light, see www.ludgerhinse.de