Its name, borrowed from German art history adopted in the definition of modern style and popularized his magazine “Jugendstil” (1896), this group has become one of the major sensations of the St. Petersburg club scene early 90’s, once the vector of motion of his artistic thought: it music - a fusion of a nervous post-punk, brutal kraut-rock and neo-romantic decadence framed concise minimalist riffs (which later was the definition of Gothic architecture), and texts, to match her, is a kaleidoscope of strange stories, images of dark and depressive lyrics.
The founder and ideologue of German Podstanitsky (r.23.10.66 in Leningrad) was raised in a theatrical family and childhood was not a stranger to music: a schoolboy has mastered the violin, piano and flute, then picked up a guitar, and age of thirteen began to gather their group (one the first was of a strange name Guerin poodle), but it remained childish pranks. In 1987, having come from the army, Herman joined the class of bass in a jazz school, continuing to write songs and find like-minded people. A couple of years he met Andrew Gradovich, ex-guitarist obscure school groups and, like Hera, a fan of modern indie music. They named Frederik Ruysch (this name had a Dutch anatomist of the XVIII century., A collection which was bought by Peter I and formed the basis of the famous Cabinet of Curiosities) and rehearsed, changing drummers and styles - ranging from post-punk to Russian rock and the acoustic ballad to hard .