The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) is a university in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, Germany. Founded on 25 June 1761, and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical significance marks names such as Nicolas Guibal,
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (October 16, 1758 in StuttgartDecember 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor.
Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke ...
,
Bernhard Pankok
Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok (16 May 1872, Münster — 5 April 1943, Baierbrunn) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His f ...
,
Adolf Hölzel
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
Biography
Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father was ...
,
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Life
Born ...
,
Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.
Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...
,
K.R.H. Sonderborg
K.R.H. Sonderborg (1923–2008) was a German painter, graphic artist, university professor and from 1980 for several years prorector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
He was born in Sønderborg/Als, Denmark. Starting in 1953, he beca ...
Heinz Edelmann
Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' brought him additional recognition around the world.
...
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (30 May 1932 – 31 December 2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan, Italy. He is considered one of the most important designers of his generation, his products typically featuring a combination of technical innovat ...
,
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London,
,
David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.
His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum ...
,
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Micha Ullman
Micha Ullman ( he, מיכה אולמן, born 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art.
Biography
Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The F ...
, offers from all art universities in the federal state
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
the largest numbers of courses, namely all disciplines of the visual field, and not just in an organizational network but also under one roof. This is essentially the result of the connection of the former Academy of Fine Arts (''Württembergische Akademie der bildenden Künste'') with the former School of Applied Arts (''Württembergische Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule'') in 1941 as ''Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart'', which was reconstituted by
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss (; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His cordial nature – something of a contrast to the stern character of chancellor Ko ...
in 1946 under the same name and which aimed at a broad training program as well as an intensified development in the following decades. Under the rectorate of
Wolfgang Kermer
Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Aca ...
, on 22 February 1975, the ″Gesetz über die Kunsthochschulen im Lande Baden-Württemberg (Kunsthochschulgesetz)″ passed by the
Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
The Landtag of Baden-Württemberg is the diet (assembly), diet of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It convenes in Stuttgart and currently consists of 154 members of five political parties. The majority before the 2021 Baden-Württemberg ...
came into force, which for the first time in the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart regulated the status and the essential relationships and which guaranteed the equality of rank with universities.
History
On 25 June 1761,
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
Charles Eugene (German: ''Carl Eugen''; 11 February 1728 – 24 October 1793), Duke of Württemberg, was the eldest son, and successor, of Charles Alexander; his mother was Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis.
Life
Born in Brussels, he ...
, established in his New Palace located in the center of
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
an ''Académie des Arts'', ″where youth can develop as young plants in a nursery″.
This institution, which also spent ten years in
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...
together with the ducal court, lost its attraction after a second educational institution founded by Charles Eugene, which gained in scope and importance and increasingly devoted itself to art education, so that the ''Académie des Arts'' last existed only by name. It was the ''Karlsschule'', an elite school with military education methodes, which went back to an orphanage founded in 1770 near Castle Solitude for poor soldiers' children and which moved in 1775 – after being converted into a military academy (''Militärakademie'') in 1773 – from the Castle Solitude in its own building (built according to the plans of the court architect Johann Christoph David Leger, destroyed in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
), situated behind the New Palace in Stuttgart. In 1781 the ''Karlsschule'' was raised by
Emperor Joseph II
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 un ...
to university status under the name ''Karls Hohe Schule''.
At the local art department, whose lessons temporary were also attended by
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...
, artists such as
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (October 16, 1758 in StuttgartDecember 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor.
Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke ...
,
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (10 September 1758, Stuttgart - 31 December 1838, Stuttgart) was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes.
Biography
His father w ...
,
Joseph Anton Koch
Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
Biography
The Tyrolese painter was born ...
,
Gottlieb Schick
Christian Gottlieb Schick (15 August 1776 – 7 May 1812) was a German Neoclassical painter. His history paintings, portraits, and landscapes are characterized by romantic tendencies. Of these, he is best known for his portraits.
Life and w ...
found their education with court painters such as Nicolas Guibal and
Adolf Friedrich Harper
Adolf Friedrich Harper (born 17 October 1725, Berlin — d. 23 June 1806, Berlin) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
Adolf Friedrich Harper was born in Berlin on 17 October 1725 to the Swedish-born Prussian court painter Johann Harper. ...
, professors, who had already taught at the ''Académie des Arts''. Unique was the print workshop, founded in 1776 under the copper engraver
Johann Gotthard von Müller
Johann Gotthard von Müller (4 May 1747 in Bernhausen, near Stuttgart – 14 March 1830 in Stuttgart) was a German line engraver.
Biography
He prepared himself for the church, but attended the academy of fine arts as well and studied under the ...
.
After the death of Duke Charles Eugene (1793), the ''Hohe Karlsschule'' was disbanded in 1794 by his brother and successor
Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
Ludwig Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (6 January 1731 – 20 May 1795), was the third son of Duke Karl Alexander and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (11 August 1706 – 1 February 1756).
Marriage
He married (morganatically) Countess Sop ...
. Thus Württemberg lost its only state art training center.
After 35 years, in 1829, King
William I of Württemberg
William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 27 September 178125 June 1864) was King of Württemberg from 30 October 1816 until his death.
Upon William's accession, Württemberg was suffering crop failures and famine in the "Year Without a Summer", ...
founded an art school in Stuttgart, but initially in conjunction with other educational institutions (''Vereinigte Kunst-, Real- und Gewerbe-Schule''). From humble beginnings, separated in 1832 from the other institutions, the ″Royal art school″ (''Königliche Kunstschule'') gradually developed as a training center, which received under the direction of Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth in 1901 the title ″Royal academy of fine arts″ (''Königliche Akademie der bildenden Künste'', after 1918 ''Württembergische Akademie der bildenden Künste'').
Under the Nazi regime, in 1941, the academy was organically linked with the School of Applied Arts (''Württembergische Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule'', founded in Stuttgart in 1869) under the name ''Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart'' (State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart), with each institution retaining its previous location. After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, the institution maintained this name when it was reconstituted in 1946 from
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss (; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His cordial nature – something of a contrast to the stern character of chancellor Ko ...
, the first Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in the state of
Württemberg-Baden
Württemberg-Baden was a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the United States occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. I ...
, with free and applied disciplines. At that time, as her own buildings in downtown Stuttgart (''Urbanstraße 37/39'') had been destroyed during air raids in 1943 and 1944, the academy moved into the building of the former School of Applied Arts, built on the Weißenhof in 1913 under the direction of
Bernhard Pankok
Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok (16 May 1872, Münster — 5 April 1943, Baierbrunn) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His f ...
. Already in 1906 Pankok had suggested the connexion of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal School of Applied Arts and her workshops (''Lehr- und Versuchswerkstätte'', founded in 1901). He had planned, more than ten years before the
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
, an art school uniting all artistic disciplines on the Weißenhof area, but had found no resonance in Stuttgart. It was not until the winter semester of 1956/57 that the academy was extended for the first time on the Weißenhof area with the move into a newly built ″Sculptor′s building″ (″Bildhauerbau″).
In 1950 – you could study painting, glass painting, sculpture, free and applied graphics, interior and furniture design (″Innenarchitektur und Möbelbau"), textiles, ceramics, metal and art teaching – the following professors taught under the rectorate of the sculptor Hermann Brachert, who was involved with the reorganization of the academy: Trude Barth, Otto Baum,
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Life
Born ...
, Walter Brudi, Rudolf Daudert, Hans Fegers, Eugen Funk, Gerhard Gollwitzer, Peter Otto Heim, Manfred Henninger, Karl Hils, Eberhard Krauß, Hans Meid, Hugo Peters, Karl Rössing, Harmi Ruland, Hermann Sohn, Karl Hans Walter, Hans Warnecke, Kurt Wehlte, Hans Wentzel, Karl Wiehl, Rudolf Yelin. The architect Adolf G. Schneck, the typographer and calligrapher F. H. Ernst Schneidler (both
NSDAP
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
members, classified as
Mitläufer
A (plural , German for "fellow traveller") is a person (the German term has the male grammatical gender; to specifically indicate a female the -in suffix has to be added) believed to be tied to or passively sympathising of certain social movement ...
in the
denazification
Denazification (german: link=yes, Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by remov ...
process) and the color chemist Hans Wagner (biographical data unkwon), the only ones from the earlier, before 1945 extensive staff had been taken over into the newly constituted State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, including the painter Fritz Steisslinger, who was active from 1946 – these four professors had already left the academy for various reasons before 1950.
After the
Protests of 1968
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominantly characterized by popular rebellions against state militaries and the bureaucracies.
In the United States, these protests marked a turning point for the ci ...
at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, the effects of which were reflected in numerous newspapers until the early 1970s, after the justified criticism from the students for unclear legal relationships and the lack of study and examination regulations, protests against authoritarian professors, nepotism and membership in the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
, the university was fundamentally reformed under the rectorate of the art historian
Wolfgang Kermer
Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Aca ...
in 1975 and 1978 on the basis of new university laws for the art and music colleges of Baden-Württemberg. The legal status was clarified and guaranteed the equality of rank with universities. The academy decided on a new basic order, dissolved the old departmental structure and formed various specialist groups and study programs. In the 1970s also diplomas for all design courses were introduced and the promotion of talented students through state-funded exhibitions and publications was institutionalized. Since 1975, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart has had its own art collection, founded by rector Wolfgang Kermer and comprising the works of current and former teachers as well as alumni. This era created the foundation on which the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart stands today.
In the more than 250 years of her changeful history, prominent artists and teachers have marked the path of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, from Nicolas Guibal,
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (October 16, 1758 in StuttgartDecember 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor.
Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke ...
,
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (10 September 1758, Stuttgart - 31 December 1838, Stuttgart) was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes.
Biography
His father w ...
,
Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret
Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret (born Ludwigsburg, 2 June 1767; died Stuttgart, 17 January 1845) was a German architect and designer.
Life and work
From 1778 to 1788 he was educated at the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart where he trained as a pa ...
,
Bernhard von Neher
Karl Josef Bernhard von Neher (16 January 1806, in Biberach an der Riß – 17 January 1886, in Stuttgart) was a German painter.
Life and work
Neher began to study painting in 1822 in Stuttgart, under Johann Heinrich von Dannecker und Philipp ...
Carlos Grethe
Carlos Grethe (25 September 1864, Montevideo, Uruguay – 2 February 1913, Nieuwpoort, Belgium) was a Uruguayan-born German painter and academician.
Life
Grethe was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but lived in Hamburg from the age of five. He st ...
,
Bernhard Pankok
Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok (16 May 1872, Münster — 5 April 1943, Baierbrunn) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His f ...
,
Adolf Hölzel
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
Biography
Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father was ...
,
Heinrich Altherr
Heinrich Altherr (11 April 1878, in Basel – 27 April 1947, in Zürich) was a Swiss painter. He is best known for his murals in churches and various public buildings.
Biography
His father, Alfred, was a pastor. He had his first art lessons fro ...
,
Anton Kolig
Anton Kolig (1 July 1886 – 17 May 1950) was an Austrian Expressionism, expressionist painter.
Biography
Anton Kolig was born in Neutitschein as the son of salon artist Ferdinant Kolig. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts with O ...
to
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Life
Born ...
,
Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.
Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...
,
K.R.H. Sonderborg
K.R.H. Sonderborg (1923–2008) was a German painter, graphic artist, university professor and from 1980 for several years prorector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
He was born in Sønderborg/Als, Denmark. Starting in 1953, he beca ...
Heinz Edelmann
Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' brought him additional recognition around the world.
...
,
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (30 May 1932 – 31 December 2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan, Italy. He is considered one of the most important designers of his generation, his products typically featuring a combination of technical innovat ...
,
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London,
,
Micha Ullman
Micha Ullman ( he, מיכה אולמן, born 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art.
Biography
Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The F ...
,
David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.
His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum ...
,
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Heinrich Füger
Heinrich Friedrich Füger (8 December 1751, in Heilbronn – 5 November 1818, in Vienna) was a German classicist portrait and historical painter.
Biography
Füger was a pupil of Nicolas Guibal in Stuttgart and of Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipz ...
,
Karl Hofer
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or ''Carl Hofer'' (11 October 1878, Karlsruhe – 3 April 1955, Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of expressioni ...
,
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Life
Born ...
,
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.
In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the wo ...
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (''Staatliches Bauhaus'') school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger ...
HAP Grieshaber
Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber (15 February 1909 – 12 May 1981) was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.
Biography
Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in R ...
,
Grete Stern
Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, ...
Charlotte Posenenske
Charlotte Posenenske, née ''Mayer'' (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominantly worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper. Posenenske created series of sculptures tha ...
Georg Karl Pfahler
Georg Karl Pfahler (8 October 1926 – 6 January 2002) was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor, and one of the leading proponents of post-war art in Germany.
Biography
After enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg between 1948 a ...
,
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
Life
Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. In ...
* 1946–1953 Hermann Brachert, sculptor
* 1953–1955 Karl Rössing, graphic artist
* 1955–1957 Manfred Henninger, painter
* 1957–1959 Rudolf Yelin (The Younger), glass painter
* 1959–1969 Walter Brudi, book artist and typographer
* 1969–1971
Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.
Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...
, architect, furniture and product designer
* 1971–1984
Wolfgang Kermer
Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Aca ...
, art historian
* 1984–1987 Manfred Kröplien, graphic designer
* 1987–1991 Paul Uwe Dreyer, painter
* 1991–1994 Wolfgang Henning, architect
* 1994–1998 Klaus Lehmann, product designer
* 1998-2004 Paul Uwe Dreyer, painter
* 2004-2010 Ludger Hünnekens, archaeologist and cultural manager
* 2010–2016 Petra Olschowski, art historian and journalist
* 2017–2022 Barbara Bader, art scientist and art didactic
Prominent teachers
*
Heinrich Altherr
Heinrich Altherr (11 April 1878, in Basel – 27 April 1947, in Zürich) was a Swiss painter. He is best known for his murals in churches and various public buildings.
Biography
His father, Alfred, was a pastor. He had his first art lessons fro ...
Fritz Auer
Fritz Auer (born 24 June 1933 in Tübingen, Germany), is a German architect, the founder and senior partner of Auer+Weber+Assoziierte.
Career
* 1953–1962 studied at TH Stuttgart (Stuttgart University)
* 1958–1959 Scholarship to Cranbroo ...
*
Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Life
Born ...
*
Johann Wilhelm Beyer
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*
David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.
His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum ...
*
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (October 16, 1758 in StuttgartDecember 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor.
Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke ...
Alexander Eckener
Alexander Eckener (21 August 1870, Flensburg – 26 May 1944, Aalen) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Biography
His father, Johann Christoph Eckener (1824–1880) was a cigar manufacturer, and his mother, Anna Maria Elisabeth Lange (1 ...
*
Heinz Edelmann
Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a Czech-German illustrator and designer. His art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' brought him additional recognition around the world.
...
Rainer Ganahl
Rainer Ganahl (born 18 October 1961 in Bludenz) is an Austrian-American conceptual artist who lives and works in New York. His work has been widely exhibited, including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, ...
*
Carlos Grethe
Carlos Grethe (25 September 1864, Montevideo, Uruguay – 2 February 1913, Nieuwpoort, Belgium) was a Uruguayan-born German painter and academician.
Life
Grethe was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but lived in Hamburg from the age of five. He st ...
Adolf Friedrich Harper
Adolf Friedrich Harper (born 17 October 1725, Berlin — d. 23 June 1806, Berlin) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
Adolf Friedrich Harper was born in Berlin on 17 October 1725 to the Swedish-born Prussian court painter Johann Harper. ...
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (10 September 1758, Stuttgart - 31 December 1838, Stuttgart) was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes.
Biography
His father w ...
*
Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.
Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...
*
Adolf Hölzel
Adolf Richard Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
Biography
Hölzel was born in Olmütz. His father was ...
Christian Jankowski
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Joan Jonas
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Albert Kappis
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Wolfgang Kermer
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Anton Kolig
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Anton Kolig was born in Neutitschein as the son of salon artist Ferdinant Kolig. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts with O ...
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Joseph Kosuth
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Christian Landenberger
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He was the secon ...
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Christian Friedrich von Leins
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Alisa Margolis
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Johann Gotthard von Müller
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He prepared himself for the church, but attended the academy of fine arts as well and studied under the ...
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Bernhard von Neher
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Bernhard Pankok
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Richard Sapper
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Philipp Jakob Scheffauer
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Hans Erich Slany
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K.R.H. Sonderborg
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Giuseppe Spagnulo
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Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf
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He was the fifth of fourteen children born to the animal and porcelain painter, Johann F ...
Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret
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Niklaus Troxler
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Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He worked as an ...
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Micha Ullman
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Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The F ...
Max Ackermann
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Life and work
Born in Berlin on 5 October 1887, Ackermann started carving wooden figures and modellin ...
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Leonor Antunes
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Early life and education
Leonor Antunes was born in Lisbon in 1972. After high school, she atte ...
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Ellen Auerbach
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Auerbach (born Ell ...
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Karl Bauer Karl Konrad Friedrich Bauer (1868–1942) was a German artist, print-maker and poet. Bauer's traditional skills in draftsmanship made him a popular illustrator and portrait artist in the early 20th century. In his later life he made a number of port ...
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Philipp Bauknecht
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Biography
He was born in Barcelona, where his father was working as a wat ...
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Willi Baumeister
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Life
Born ...
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Alf Bayrle
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Bayrle was born in Biberach an der Riss. After his military service and participation in the First Worl ...
Eric Carle
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Maria Caspar-Filser
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Life and work
Maria Filser grew up in rural southwestern Germany. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and ...
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Gustav Paul Closs
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Life
Closs was born at Stuttgart in 1840, and received his first instructions in the School of Arts there under Funk, but afterwards studied in Rome, Naples, Munich, Paris, and othe ...
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
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Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke ...
Carl Eytel
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Stefan Diez
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Early life and education
Born in 1971 in Freising, Germany, to a family of ...
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Fritz Faiss
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Life and work
Faiss was born on March 6, 1905 in the town of Furtwangen, a town in the Black Forest section of Germany. He studied a ...
Adolf Fleischmann
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His late work evolved into Constructivism (art), constructivism; he is considered a precursor of Op Art.
Life
Fleischmann was born in Esslingen am Neckar, ...
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Heinrich Füger
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Biography
Füger was a pupil of Nicolas Guibal in Stuttgart and of Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipz ...
Jakob Gauermann
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Life
He at first worked as a stonemason at Hohenheim. His strong inclination for drawing bro ...
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Robert Gernhardt
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Life
Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. In ...
HAP Grieshaber
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Biography
Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in R ...
Armin Hansen
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Ferdinand Hartmann
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Biography
He was the youngest son of the Ducal finance councilor, and his wife Juliane Friederik ...
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
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Biography
His father w ...
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Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
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His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the ...
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Karl Hofer
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One of the most prominent painters of expressioni ...
Johannes Itten
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Wolfgang Kermer
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Fyodor Khitruk
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Biography
Khitruk was born in Tver (Russian Empire), into a Jewish ...
Joseph Anton Koch
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Biography
The Tyrolese painter was born ...
Susanne Kriemann
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Life and career
Susanne Kriemann graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1997, where she ...
Christian Landenberger
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Life
He was the secon ...
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Peter Lenk
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Art
Lenk's artworks include:
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Käthe Loewenthal
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Paul Maar
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Life
Maar was born in Schweinfurt. After the early death of his mo ...
Louis Moilliet
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Johann Gotthard von Müller
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Biography
He prepared himself for the church, but attended the academy of fine arts as well and studied under the ...
Rolf Nesch
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Career
Nesch was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the so ...
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Vera Neubauer
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Christoph Niemann
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Since July 2008, Niemann has been writing and illustrating ''The New York Times'' blog Abstract City, renamed Abstract Sunday in 2011, when the blog ...
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August Friedrich Oelenhainz
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Oelenhainz's father was a preacher. He studied under his uncle Wolfgang Dietrich Mayr in Tübingen, and then later at the art school in Stuttgart with the Wü ...
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Carl Offterdinger
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Book illustrations
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Georg Karl Pfahler
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Biography
After enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg between 1948 a ...
Charlotte Posenenske
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Lilo Ramdohr
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Early life
Ramdohr was a descen ...
Lilo Rasch-Naegele
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Anselm Reyle
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Biography
Anselm Reyle was born in Tübingen, Germany in 1970. He studied at the Staatliche Akademie d ...
Philipp Jakob Scheffauer
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Life and work
His father was a Lackey (manservant), manservant to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemb ...
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Gottlieb Schick
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Life and w ...
Rudolf Schlichter
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Schlichter was born in Calw, Württemberg. A ...
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Oskar Schlemmer
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In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the wo ...
Grete Stern
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Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret
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Life and work
From 1778 to 1788 he was educated at the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart where he trained as a pa ...
Emil Rudolf Weiß
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Biography
His father was a police officer and he grew up in Breisach and Baden-Baden.Willy Wiedmann
* Ludwig Wilding
* Peter Zimmermann
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Heinrich von Zügel
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Life
Beginning in 1 ...
Honorary Members / Honorary Senators of the Academy
Honorary Members of the ''Académie des Arts''
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch
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(1762)
Honorary Members of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (appointment period 1942–1999)
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Bernhard Pankok
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Rolf Nesch
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Career
Nesch was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the so ...
(1962)
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Wilhelm Wagenfeld
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(1962)
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Walter Gropius
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(1968)
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
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Life and work
Schmidt-Rottluff was born in ...
Herbert Hirche Herbert Hirche (20 May 1910, in Görlitz – 28 January 2002, in Heidelberg) was a German architect and furniture and product designer.
Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin.. Retrieved 29 October 2014 His t ...
(1977)
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Oswald Oberhuber
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Biography
Oberhuber learned sculpture at the Federal Trade School in Innsbruck. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna an ...
(1982)
Honorary Senators (appointment period 2004 to today)
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Wolfgang Kermer
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(2004)
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Oswald Oberhuber
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Biography
Oberhuber learned sculpture at the Federal Trade School in Innsbruck. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna an ...
(2004)
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Gerd Hatje
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(2006)
Against forgetting
Alumni of the Stuttgart art schools, who died in the Holocaust
* (1881–1942)
* (1891–1942)
* (1880–1943)
* Käthe Löwenthal (1878–1942)
* (1894–1943)
* Marianne Weil (1909–1942)see German Wikipedia
Artists, who participated in the Stuttgart Jewish art exhibitions in 1935 and / or 1937, presumably studied at the Stuttgart art schools and whose fate is unknown
Alumni from the Stuttgart art schools who survived the Holocaust
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Ellen Auerbach
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Early life
Auerbach (born Ell ...
(1906–2004)
* (1898–1971)
* (1907–1989)
* Paul Elsas (1896–1981)
* (1897-1986)
* (1891–1976); art studies in Stuttgart not cleared
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Biography Early life and education
Liselotte Grschebina was born Liselotte Billigheimer in 1908 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her parents were Rosa and Otto Billigheimer, a Je ...
(1908–1994)
* (1933–2014)
* (1891–1966); art studies in Stutttgart not cleared
* (1887–1974)
* Erich Kahn (1904–1980)
* Hermann Kahn (Aharon Kahana) (1905–1967)
* (1885–1975)
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Fyodor Khitruk
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Biography
Khitruk was born in Tver (Russian Empire), into a Jewish ...
Charlotte Posenenske
Charlotte Posenenske, née ''Mayer'' (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominantly worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper. Posenenske created series of sculptures tha ...
(1930–1985)
* (1900–1987)
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Grete Stern
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