David D. Stern
 David Stern was born on February 3 1956 in Essen Germany and lives in New York. Stern has referred to himself as an “action painter” echoing the artistic legacies of New York School painters Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Yet his human forms reach further back to histories of portraiture.After an apprenticeship as a sign painter Stern attended the Dortmund Fachhochschule für Design and Art (1975–79) and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1980–82).