Josef Hofer was born in the final weeks of the Second World War, on 17th March 1945, in Wegscheid near Passau. Until 1982, the family lived on a farmstead in the Mühlviertel district of Upper Austria. His father, originally a tobacco-pipe maker, had bought the farm when he was forced to recognize that his two sons were handicapped. Josef Hofer never went to school at all. He was often taken along on the work in the fields. He played with dolls and carvings, such as wooden horses, that his father made for him. He had been interested in agricultural implements ever since he was small and, even as a child, he drew them on a piece of paper. In 1985, Josef Hofer came to the day centre in Linz of the Lebenshilfe Oberösterreich, later to Grein, and since 1992 he has lived and worked in the Lebenshilfe Ried in the Innkreis district. More...

Robert Burda was born on 19th April, 1942 in Neuburg/Donau. His formative influences were the time he spent in the sheltered atmosphere of his parent's home, and his upbringing in the Bremen-Blumenthal district. Ever since his early childhood years and youth, he has spent a lot of time painting, repeatedly drawing the Bremer buses with photographic precision - fascinated by their technical development. Since the age of 26, Robert Burda has lived in the residential area of the Alexianer hospital in Münster. More...

Florival Candeias was born in 1973 as the son of a simple landworker in Alvito, South Portugal. He lives with his parents, and has been looked after and artistically supported in the Cercibeja institution for handicapped persons since he was ten. He began to paint even as a child. In his pictures, the artistic engages with his immediate environment. His motifs are primarily people, animals and landscapes. More...