The Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar or HBKsaar, (English: ''Saar College of Fine Arts'') is an art and design university in the German State of

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

. The degree course offers a choice of different topics: Fine arts, communication design, media art & design and product design. There are also various master study programmes and teacher training programmes in art education.

Noted alumni

* Arvid Boecker (born 1964), color field painter *

Ingrid Mwangi Ingrid Mwangi (born 1975) is a German artist, of Kenyan-German descent. She works with photography, sculpture and in multimedia, performance, and installation art. In 2005, she co-founded ''Mwangi Hutter.'' Early life and education Ingrid Njeri ...

(born 1975) also known as "Mwangi Hutter", multidisciplinary artist, known for performance art *

Andrea Neumann Andrea Neumann (1969 – 2020) was a German visual artist and educator. She is one of the most important artists of the Saarland region. She is known for her abstract paintings. Biography Andrea Neumann was born on June 5, 1969, in Stuttgart, G ...

(1969–2020) painter * Thomas Wagner (born 1977) VR and video game designer, entrepreneur

Noted faculty

Bodo Baumgarten Bodo Baumgarten (born 25 November 1940) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and educator. He is a former professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBK) in Saarland. Biography Bodo Baumgarten was born on 25 November 1940 in ...

, painter *, architect and designer * , painter *

Christina Kubisch Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from h ...

, composer, sound artist, performance artist *

Frans Masereel Frans Masereel (31 July 1889 – 3 January 1972) was a Flemish painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France, known especially for his woodcuts focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over ...

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

painter and graphic artist, taught at HBK from 1949 to 1949. *

Cho Sung-hyung Cho Sung-hyung (born June 26, 1966) is a German film maker, director, editor and professor living and working in Germany with South Korean roots. She got German citizenship in 2016 for her documentary ''My Brothers and Sisters in the North''. Bi ...

, film maker * , visual artist * Tamás Waliczky, multidisciplinary media artist, computer animator, cartoonist, illustrator.Tamás Waliczky
in hbksaar.de

References

External links

Official website
Education in Saarbrücken Educational institutions established in 1989 Universities and colleges in Saarland Art schools in Germany Design schools in Germany 1989 establishments in West Germany {{Germany-university-stub