Galeria Cordeiros has been around since 1994. The gallery is in a house in the Boavist area that has been altered. It was founded by Agostinho Cordeiro. They show and have works by renowned artists but also by artists whose work is not, perhaps, as known to the general populace but that are master artists regardless.
Penck is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor who worked in Dresden under the communist East German government. As you might expect he and his fellow painters whose ideas were notin line with the officially sanctioned art were of interest to the authorities. These artist included Pench, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz and others. These neo-expressionists have gone on to be featured, over the past 30 years in myriad exhibits worldwide. Penck is also, apparrently a jazz drummer!
Appel, who passed away in 2006, was a Dutch painter and one of the founders of the Cobra School. Works from the school often use bright, almost garish colors. Appel was also a sculptor and a poet.
Barceló, a Spanish painter, who is known for his work on the dome of the United Nations' European Headquarters. In addition to painting and drawing he is a sculpto a