Jan Muche trained as lithographer and studied with Karl Horst Hödicke at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. His art revolves around forms that bring to mind structural steelwork, giant industrial installation components, or scaffolding. His constructivist-abstract paintings and sculptures look back on steel as a symbol of industrialization and the working class, which featured in unflappably cheerful and adulatory depictions that were characteristic of the twentieth century’s ideologies.