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Astrid Nippoldt
Astrid Nippoldt is a German illustrator and video artist. Biography Astrid Nippoldt was born in 1973 in Giessen, Giessen, Germany and grew up in Kleve. She has lived in Bremen and Berlin. She has a daughter, born in 2008, and a son, born in 2014. Career She studied visual communications at Fachhochschule Münster from 1993 until 1998. From 1997 until 2003 she studied visual arts at Hochschule für Künste Bremen at the Atelier of Time-based Media with Jean-François Guiton and Yuji Takeoka. She has been awarded fellowships, including to the Villa Massimo in 2006 and has served as artist-in-residence in the US and France. Her teaching assignments have included Hochschule für Künste Bremen and University of Bremen. She has exhibited widely in Germany and abroad. In 2012 she co-foundeStudio Nippoldtwith her brother Robert Nippoldt and his wife Christine Nippoldt. Her works are exhibited in Städische Galerie Bremen, Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge MA, Kunstmuseum Breme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giessen
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students. The name comes from ''Giezzen'', as it was first referred to in 1197, which refers to the position of the town between several rivers, lakes and streams. The largest river in Giessen is the Lahn, which divides the town in two parts (west and east), roughly north of Frankfurt am Main. Giessen is also home to the University of Giessen. In 1969, the town hosted the ninth ''Hessentag'' state festival. History Giessen came into being as a moated castle in 1152 built by Count Wilhelm von Gleiberg, although the history of the community in the northeast and in today's suburb called "Wieseck" dates back to 775. The town became part of Hesse-Marburg in 1567, passing to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1604. The University of Giessen was founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |