Walter Stöhrer (1937–2000) was a German painter born 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 ...

. Between 1952 and 1954 he studied as a commercial graphical artist (''Werbegraphiker''), receiving a journeyman's certificate. In 1955 he began to study painting at the Academy of Arts (''Akademie der Bildenden Künste'') in

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and in 1957 became a member of the class of

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 ...

, where he remained until 1959. In 1959 he left Karlsruhe for

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, to operate and live as free artist. In 1984 Stöhrer became a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. Between 1981 and 1982 he was visiting professor at the ''Hochschule'' (now ''Universität'') ''der Künste'', the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

. In 1986 he obtained a chair at that same institution.

Awards

* 1962

, German Youth Art Prize * 1964 Berlin, Critics' Prize of the City of Berlin * 1971 Berlin, Will Grohmann Prize of the Academy of Art * 1976 Berlin, Berlin Art Prize of the Academy of Art * 1977 Villa Romana Prize * 1978 Esslingen, Kreissparkasse Art Prize * 1980

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

, Böttcherstraße Art Prize * 1981–1982 Berlin, visiting professor at the ''Hochschule der Künste'' * 1982

Nordhorn Nordhorn (Northern Low Saxon: ''Nothoorn'' (or ''Notthoarn'', ''Netthoarn'' and ''Noordhoorn'')) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the ...

City Art Prize * 1995 Stuttgart, Molfenter Prize * 1999

Reutlingen Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ...

, Jerg Ratgeb Prize * 2000

Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...

, Dr. Friedrich Schultz Prize The ''Walter Stöhrer-Stiftung'' (Walter Stöhrer-Foundation) is () working on an edition of his collected writings on art.

External links

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the source of the first version of this article. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stohrer, Walter 1937 births 2000 deaths Artists from Stuttgart 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin