16 Notable alumni of
Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
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The Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig is 2136th in the world, 706th in Europe, and 76th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Neo Rauch
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- university teacherdraftspersonpainterphotojournalist
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Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.
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Jan Tschichold
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- Studied in 1919
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- book designergraphic designerdesignertype designerlecturer
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Jan Tschichold, also known as Iwan Tschichold or Ivan Tschichold, was a German calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He played a significant role in the development of graphic design in the 20th century – first, by developing and promoting principles of typographic modernism, and subsequently idealizing conservative typographic structures. His direction of the visual identity of Penguin Books in the decade following World War II served as a model for the burgeoning design practice of planning corporate identity programs. He also designed the typeface Sabon.
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Hannes Hegen
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- authorgraphic designercomics artistcaricaturistillustrator
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Hannes Hegen was a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.
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Lucia Moholy
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- writerartistphotographerediting staffteacher
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Lucia Moholy was a photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience. However, Moholy was seldom credited for her work, which was often attributed to her husband László Moholy-Nagy or to Walter Gropius.
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Wolfgang Mattheuer
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- 1947-1951 graduated with Diplom
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- photographergraphic artistpaintergraphic designeruniversity teacher
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Wolfgang Mattheuer was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. He came to prominence with allegorical, pessimistic and sometimes heroic paintings which were accused of expressing political dissidence. He was later an open critic of both socialism and capitalism. He taught at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) for many years. In 1974 he resigned from his position as professor at the HGB to work as a freelance painter. In 1988 he left the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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Oskar Zwintscher
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- Studied in 1887-1890
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- university teacherpaintervisual artist
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Oskar Zwintscher was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.
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Arno Rink
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- Studied in 1962
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Arno Rink was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with the second generation of the Leipzig School, which paints in a German figurative tradition.
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Katarzyna Kozyra
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- photographersculptorperformance artistartistvideo artist
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Katarzyna Kozyra is a Polish video artist. She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988). In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Kozryra received a Paszport Polityki award in 1997 as the most promising artist in Poland. She has exhibited internationally since 1997, at venues including Brown University and Carnegie International in the U.S.
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Günter Rössler
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- photographerphotojournalistfashion photographer
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Günter Rössler was a German photographer who made a name for himself especially in the field of nude art photography. A pioneer of nude photography in East Germany and notable fashion photographer, Rössler was often referred to by the media as the Helmut Newton of East Germany, stylized since Playboy published in 1984 a photo-gallery titled: Mädchen der DDR (Girls of the GDR). Rössler however, never liked this comparison with Newton, saying: "with Newton the pose dominates, with me it is about the highest possible authenticity of the girls". Rössler significantly contributed to the history of German photography in the second half of the twentieth century, earning him recognition not only as a great photographer, but also as the "old master of German nude photography".
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Carl Werner
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- Studied in 1824
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- watercoloristarchitectural painteruniversity teacherlandscape painterpainter
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Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner was a German watercolor painter.
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Anna Haifisch
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- graphic artistcomics artistillustrator
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Anna Haifisch is a German cartoonist and illustrator who has been working for German and international media. She is best known for her cartoons titled The Artist, first published by Vice magazine, her 2018 doodle for Google and her contribution to the series Drawn to MoMA of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Her work has received several awards and has been translated into English, French, Spanish and other languages.
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Gustav Jäger
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- painterdraftspersonillustrator
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Gustav Jäger was a German painter.
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Fritz Quant
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- painterlithographeretcherillustrator
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Franz Xaver Friedrich Quant, known as Fritz was a German painter, graphic artist and designer.
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Renate Rössing
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- photographer
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Renate Rössing was a German photographer. Her career continued beyond the changes of 1989/90. Prior to that, as an East German citizen, she enjoyed privileges which enabled her to travel abroad. She is nevertheless best known for pictures taken in and around her home cities of Leipzig and Dresden during the 1950s and 1960s. Her work embraced photojournalism, portraiture and landscapes. For historians, some of her most interesting pictures deal with daily life during the years of postwar reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
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Doris Ziegler
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- painter
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Doris Ziegler is a German painter whose work responded to and engaged with the Wende and the peaceful revolution in the GDR during the late 1980s.
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Sixtus Armin Thon
- Enrolled in the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
- Studied in 1837
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- photographerpainterlithographergenre painter
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Sixtus Armin Thon was a German painter, etcher and lithographer. There is widespread disagreement over whether his name was Sixtus or Sixt, even though his gravestone says "Sixtus".
