100 Notable alumni of
Berlin University of the Arts

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The Berlin University of the Arts is 481st in the world, 173rd in Europe, and 25th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Berlin University of the Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1886-1969 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    designerteacherarchitect
    Biography

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.

  2. Günter Grass

    Günter Grass
    Years
    1927-2015 (aged 88)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1953-1956
    Occupations
    novelistautobiographerlyricistgraphic artistphotographer
    Biography

    Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  3. Martina Gedeck

    Martina Gedeck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    film actorscreenwriter
    Biography

    Martina Gedeck is a German actress. She achieved international recognition due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha (2001), The Lives of Others (2006), and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008). She has won several awards, including two Deutscher Filmpreis, in 1997 for Supporting Actress in Life is All You Get, and in 2002 for Actress in Mostly Martha.

  4. Wotan Wilke Möhring

    Wotan Wilke Möhring
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied visual communication
    Occupations
    audio drama actormusicianfilm actormodelstage actor
    Biography

    Wotan Wilke Möhring is a German actor.

  5. Max Raabe

    Max Raabe
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    composerbandleaderconductorsinger
    Biography

    Max Raabe is a German jazz singer. He is best known as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester.

  6. Kurt Weill

    Kurt Weill
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1900-1950 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    film score composercomposerconductorpedagogue
    Biography

    Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He became a United States citizen in 1943.

  7. Tanja Wedhorn

    Tanja Wedhorn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    film actoractortelevision actor
    Biography

    Tanja Wedhorn is a German actress. She studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts and lives in Berlin. She has two sons.

  8. Antonia Brico

    Antonia Brico
    Born in
    Netherlands Flag Netherlands
    Years
    1902-1989 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    conductorpianist
    Biography

    Antonia Louisa Brico was a Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.

  9. Melika Foroutan

    Melika Foroutan
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    1999-2003 studied theatre
    Occupations
    actorfilm actor
    Biography

    Melika Foroutan is a German-Iranian actress.

  10. Rosa von Praunheim

    Rosa von Praunheim
    Born in
    Latvia Flag Latvia
    Years
    1942-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    writercinematographeractorscreenwriterfilm producer
    Biography

    Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky, known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in West Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on queer-related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by excess and employ a campy style. They have featured such personalities as Keith Haring, Larry Kramer, Diamanda Galás, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Judith Malina, Jeff Stryker, Jayne County, Divine, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and a row of Warhol superstars. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-length films). His works influenced the development of LGBTQ+ movements worldwide.

  11. Sascha Lobo

    Sascha Lobo
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    1998-2013 graduated with Diplom
    Occupations
    writerbloggercopywriterjournalist
    Biography

    Sascha Lobo is a German blogger, writer, journalist, Audiobook-narrator and copywriter. Lobo's work is primarily concerned with the Internet and with the social effects of new technology.

  12. Claudio Arrau

    Claudio Arrau
    Born in
    Chile Flag Chile
    Years
    1903-1991 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

  13. Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1885-1973 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    composerconductor
    Biography

    Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music.

  14. Friederike Becht

    Friederike Becht
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1986-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    stage actorfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Friederike Becht is a German actress.

  15. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1925-2012 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise" of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg Demus are still critically acclaimed half a century after their release.

  16. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1915-2006 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    opera singermusic educator
    Biography

    Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.

  17. Vera Tschechowa

    Vera Tschechowa
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1940-2024 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    film producerfilm actorscreenwriterstage actorfilm director
    Biography

    Vera Wilhelmowna Rust, known as Vera Tschechowa, was a German producer, director, screenwriter, and actress of Russian descent. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1957 and 1996. She was widely known as Elvis Presley's companion, particularly in connection with his Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV) public booster-advocacy and which they both undertook during Presley's first year in Germany with the U.S. Army (1959).

  18. Joachim Sauter

    Joachim Sauter
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1959-2021 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    university teachersculptordesignerartist
    Biography

    Joachim Sauter was a German media artist, designer and technology entrepreneur. He was appointed Professor for New Media Art and Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) in 1991, and in 1993 he created Terravision (computer program), before pursuing a lawsuit against Google for infringing the patent. He became an adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles in 2001.

  19. Hossein Alizadeh

    Hossein Alizadeh
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    musiciancomposermusicologistteacher
    Biography

    Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles.

  20. Inka Friedrich

    Inka Friedrich
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1984-1988
    Occupations
    stage actorfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Inka Friedrich is a German actress.

  21. Moritz Moszkowski

    Moritz Moszkowski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1854-1925 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    composerconductorpianistmusicologist
    Biography

    Moritz Moszkowski was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin.

  22. Adriana Altaras

    Adriana Altaras
    Born in
    Croatia Flag Croatia
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorstage actortheatrical directorwriter
    Biography

    Adriana Altaras is a German actress, theatre director and author.

  23. Leopold Godowsky

    Leopold Godowsky
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1870-1938 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    composerpianistmusic educator
    Biography

    Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a Lithuanian-born American virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus.

  24. Isang Yun

    Isang Yun
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1917-1995 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    composerconductormusicologistmusic educator
    Biography

    Isang Yun, or Yun I-sang, was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany.

  25. Gudrun Gut

    Gudrun Gut
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    musicianrecord producerdisc jockey
    Biography

    Gudrun Gut is a German electronic musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and founder of the Monika Enterprise record label.

  26. Uwe Kröger

    Uwe Kröger
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actorsingeractor
    Biography

    Uwe Kröger is a German actor, singer, and he plays Guitar. He is a musical star in the German-speaking countries of the world. Besides starring on stage, Kröger has taken part in galas and concerts, as well as making television and film appearances. He has released cast recordings and solo CDs. He also played Captain Von Trapp singing in German and English on Edelweiss.

  27. Eddie Rosner

    Eddie Rosner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1910-1976 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    composerjazz musicianviolinistconductortrumpeter
    Biography

    Adolph Ignatievich Rosner, known professionally as Ady Rosner and Eddie Rosner was a German, Polish, and Soviet jazz trumpeter sometimes called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong". He was a prisoner in the Gulag when Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

  28. Farhang Sharif

    Farhang Sharif
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1931-2016 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    composerlutenist
    Biography

    Farhang Sharif was an Iranian musician and renowned tar player.

  29. Aribert Reimann

    Aribert Reimann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1936-2024 (aged 88)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1954-1958
    Occupations
    musiciancomposerpianistlibrettist
    Biography

    Aribert Reimann was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied (art song) in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work.

  30. Jasper Morrison

    Jasper Morrison
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    engineerindustrial designerfurniture designerwriterdesigner
    Biography

    Jasper Morrison CBE RDI is an English product and furniture designer. He is known for the refinement and apparent simplicity of his designs. In a rare interview with the designer, he is quoted as saying: "Objects should never shout."

  31. Toshio Hosokawa

    Toshio Hosokawa
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    music educatorcomposer
    Biography

    Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music.

  32. Norbert Bisky

    Norbert Bisky
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    painterdraftsperson
    Biography

    Norbert Bisky is a German artist based in Berlin. He is one of the most important representatives of a new figurative painting in the 21st century.

  33. Jenő Hubay

    Jenő Hubay
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1858-1937 (aged 79)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1876
    Occupations
    university teachercomposermusic educatorclassical violinist
    Biography

    Jenő Hubay von Szalatna, also known by his German name Eugen Huber ( pronounced [ˈɔʏɡeːn ˈhuːbɐ, ˈɔʏɡn̩ -]), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.

  34. F. W. Bernstein

    F. W. Bernstein
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1938-2018 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    poetphotographeruniversity teacherwritercaricaturist
    Biography

    F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.

  35. Kan’ichi Shimofusa

    Kan’ichi Shimofusa
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1898-1962 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Kanichi Shimofusa was a Japanese composer.

  36. Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen

    Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen
    Born in
    Peru Flag Peru
    Years
    1980-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    bloggerdisability rights activisthuman rights activistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen is a German disability rights activist. He was awarded the Order of Merit of Germany and is an Ashoka Fellow.

  37. Maria Marc

    Maria Marc
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1876-1955 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    paintertextile designertextile artist
    Biography

    Maria Franck-Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck, was a German artist. She is also known as the wife of the painter Franz Marc.

  38. Agi Jambor

    Agi Jambor
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1909-1997 (aged 88)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1931
    Occupations
    composerclassical pianistmusic educator
    Biography

    Agi Jambor was a Hungarian-born pianist.

  39. Karl Leister

    Karl Leister
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1937-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    university teachermusic educatorclarinetist
    Biography

    Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As a teenager, he was accepted into the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann and Walter Felsenstein as clarinet soloist.

  40. Grete Trakl

    Grete Trakl
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1891-1917 (aged 26)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Grete Trakl was an Austrian pianist and sister of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl.

  41. Arnold Mendelssohn

    Arnold Mendelssohn
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1855-1933 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Studied in 1876-1880
    Occupations
    music educatorcomposer
    Biography

    Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, was a German composer and music teacher.

  42. Gotthard Graubner

    Gotthard Graubner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1930-2013 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    printmakeruniversity teacherpainter
    Biography

    Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.

  43. Carl Joseph Begas

    Carl Joseph Begas
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1794-1854 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Carl Joseph Begas, or Karl Begas, was a German painter who played an important role in the transition from Romanticism to Realism. He was the first in a multi-generational "dynasty" of artists.

  44. Jacques Rossi

    Jacques Rossi
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1909-2004 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Jacques Rossi was a Polish-French writer and polyglot. Rossi was best known for his books on the Gulag.

  45. Farrah El-Dibany

    Farrah El-Dibany
    Born in
    Egypt Flag Egypt
    Years
    1989-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Farrah El-Dibany an Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She is the first Egyptian and African singer to join the Paris Opera Academy in 2016.

  46. Rudolf Belling

    Rudolf Belling
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1886-1972 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    sculptorlithographer
    Biography

    Rudolf Belling was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

  47. Ingo Kühl

    Ingo Kühl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    artistdraftspersonpaintersculptorarchitect
    Biography

    Ingo Kühl is a German painter, sculptor and architect.

  48. Dea Loher

    Dea Loher
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    writerplaywright
    Biography

    Dea Loher is a German playwright and author.

  49. Şeyda Kurt

    Şeyda Kurt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1992-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    curatororatoropinion journalistpodcasterjournalist
    Biography

    Şeyda Kurt is a German journalist and author.

  50. Julius von Bismarck

    Julius von Bismarck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    photographerresearcherperformance artistartistinstallation artist
    Biography

    Julius von Bismarck is a German artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He attended the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hunter College in New York City.

  51. Oliver Mark

    Oliver Mark
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    photographerartist
    Biography

    Oliver Mark is a German photographer, known primarily for his portrait photographs of international celebrities.

  52. Peter Schumann

    Peter Schumann
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1934-.. (age 91)
    Occupations
    sculptordirectorpuppeteerpuppet designerdancer
    Biography

    Peter Schumann is the co-founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually settling in Glover, Vermont, where the company still performs. Schumann's best known work is the Domestic Resurrection Circus, performed annually by the Bread and Puppet Theater until 1998. He was married to theater co-founder Elka Schumann until her death in August 2021.

  53. Marina Chiche

    Marina Chiche
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    Graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    violinistmusic educatorradio personality
    Biography

    Marina Chiche is a French classical violinist.

  54. Mehmet Aksoy

    Mehmet Aksoy
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1939-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. His sculptures often contain sensual figurative elements, but he is strongly rooted in a modernist sensibility with strong conceptual and abstract elements in his work. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material, fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.

  55. Eduard Bendemann

    Eduard Bendemann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1811-1889 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    sculptoruniversity teacherpainter
    Biography

    Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann was a German-Jewish painter.

  56. Karl Ferdinand Sohn

    Karl Ferdinand Sohn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1805-1867 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

  57. Else Berg

    Else Berg
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1877-1942 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    resistance fighterdraftspersonpaintercover artistwatercolorist
    Biography

    Else Berg was a German-born Dutch painter of Jewish descent; associated with the Bergense School. She was married to the Dutch painter, Mommie Schwarz. She and her husband were both murdered in the Holocaust.

  58. Rudolf Wagner-Régeny

    Rudolf Wagner-Régeny
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1903-1969 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    university teachercomposerpianistconductor
    Biography

    Rudolf Wagner-Régeny was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, since 1920 Romania, he became a German citizen in 1930, and then East German after 1945.

  59. Aram Bartholl

    Aram Bartholl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    artistvisual artistinternet artistconceptual artistdesigner
    Biography

    Aram Bartholl is a Berlin-based conceptual artist known for his examination of the relationship between the digital and physical world. His works often deal with anonymity and privacy. Aram Bartholl is currently Professor for art with digital media at HAW Hamburg.

  60. Felicitas Kukuck

    Felicitas Kukuck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1914-2001 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    composerpianistmusic educator
    Biography

    Felicitas Kukuck was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works.

  61. Kostas Giannidis

    Kostas Giannidis
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1903-1984 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    actorsingerfilm score composerconductorcomposer
    Biography

    Ioannis Constantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis (Greek: Κώστας Γιαννίδης; 21 August 1903 – 17 January 1984), was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor.

  62. Marwan Kassab-Bachi

    Marwan Kassab-Bachi
    Born in
    Syria Flag Syria
    Years
    1934-2016 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    graphic artistuniversity teacherpainter
    Biography

    Marwan Kassab-Bachi, commonly known as Marwan, was a Syrian painter. Born in Damascus, he first studied at Damascus University before moving to Berlin, Germany, where he enrolled in the Hochschule der Bildende Künste. He stayed there for most of his life, and was appointed full professor in 1980.

  63. Eduard Franck

    Eduard Franck
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1817-1893 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    composeruniversity teacherpianist
    Biography

    Eduard Franck was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue.

  64. George Georgescu

    George Georgescu
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1887-1964 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    conductor
    Biography

    George Georgescu was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associate of George Enescu, he received honors from the French and communist Romanian governments and lived to make recordings in the stereo era.

  65. Josephine Meckseper

    Josephine Meckseper
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    photographerfilmmakerphotojournalistinstallation artist
    Biography

    Josephine Meckseper is a German-born artist, based in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide.

  66. Julian Charrière

    Julian Charrière
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1987-.. (age 38)
    Occupations
    photographerartist
    Biography

    Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss conceptual artist currently living and working in Berlin. He uses several artistic approaches including photography, performance, sculpture, and video, to address concepts relating to time and human's relationship to the natural world.

  67. Katharina Szelinski-Singer

    Katharina Szelinski-Singer
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1918-2010 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Katharina Szelinski-Singer, born as Katharina Singer was a German sculptor. She lived in Berlin from 1945 until her death.

  68. Helen Hyde

    Helen Hyde
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1868-1919 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    etcherengraverartistprintmaker
    Biography

    Helen Hyde was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.

  69. Robert Hausmann

    Robert Hausmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1852-1909 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    university teachercomposercellistmusic educator
    Biography

    Robert Hausmann was a notable 19th-century German cellist who premiered important works by Johannes Brahms (including the Double Concerto) and Max Bruch (including Kol Nidrei). He was the cellist for the Joachim Quartet and taught at the Berlin Königliche Hochschule für Müsik.

  70. Tossy Spivakovsky

    Tossy Spivakovsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1906-1998 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    concertmastermusic educatorviolinistmusiciansoloist
    Biography

    Nathan "Tossy" Spivakovsky, a Jewish, Russian Empire-born, German-trained violin virtuoso, was considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.

  71. Cesar Klein

    Cesar Klein
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1876-1954 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainterdesignergraphic designerscenographer
    Biography

    César Klein was a German Expressionist painter and designer, probably best known as one of the founders the November Group and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

  72. Avitall Gerstetter

    Avitall Gerstetter
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    hazzan
    Biography

    Avitall Gerstetter is the first female hazzan (cantor) in Jewish Renewal and the first female cantor in Germany.

  73. Milena Glimbovski

    Milena Glimbovski
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1990-.. (age 35)
    Occupations
    businesspersonenvironmentalistauthor
    Biography

    Milena Glimbovski is a Russian–German entrepreneur, author and zero-waste activist. Glimbovski is mostly known for founding of the Berlin-based "Original Unverpackt" zero-waste grocery store.

  74. Louis Tuaillon

    Louis Tuaillon
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1862-1919 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    Louis Tuaillon was a Prussian sculptor. From 1879 to 1881, he attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, then worked in the studio of Reinhold Begas. In Vienna, he spent two years in the studio of Rudolf Weyr. He then spent the years 1885 to 1903 in Rome. From 1906, Tuaillon was once again in Berlin, as Professor in the academy.

  75. Willy Burmester

    Willy Burmester
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1869-1933 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    musiciancomposerconcertmasterviolinist
    Biography

    Carl Adolph Wilhelm “Willy” Burmester was a German violinist.

  76. Hugo Kaun

    Hugo Kaun
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1863-1932 (aged 69)
    Enrolled in the Berlin University of the Arts
    In 1876 studied composed musical work
    Occupations
    university teachercomposerconductormusic educator
    Biography

    Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.

  77. Ignatz Waghalter

    Ignatz Waghalter
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1881-1949 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    composerconductor
    Biography

    Ignatz Waghalter was a Polish-German composer and conductor.

  78. Caroline Fischer

    Caroline Fischer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1984-.. (age 41)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Caroline Fischer is a German pianist. She has performed globally and has received numerous awards and prizes.

  79. Filipa César

    Filipa César
    Born in
    Portugal Flag Portugal
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    sculptorfilm directorvideo artistteacher
    Biography

    Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Berlin, and studied at the Faculty of Arts in Porto and Lisbon (1996–99), the Academy of Arts in Munich (1999–2000) and MA Art in Context, University of Arts, Berlin (2007). Since April 2021 César is professor at Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany.

  80. Hermann Stilke

    Hermann Stilke
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1803-1860 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    history painterpainter
    Biography

    Anton Hermann Stilke was a German painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He is best known for his scenes from the life of Joan of Arc.

  81. Wolf Hilbertz

    Wolf Hilbertz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1938-2007 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    environmentalistuniversity teacherarchitect
    Biography

    Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz was a German-born futurist architect, inventor, and marine scientist. Notable contributions to science include the discovery of artificial mineral accretetion / biorock and its use to create artificial reefs and other structures using electricity to attract materials already found in ocean water.

  82. Suzanne Eisendieck

    Suzanne Eisendieck
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1906-1998 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Suzanne Eisendieck was a German Post-Impressionist painter native of Danzig.

  83. Susanne Alt

    Susanne Alt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1978-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
    Biography

    Susanne Alt is a German jazz saxophone player and composer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  84. Myron Michailidis

    Myron Michailidis
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    music directorpianistconductor
    Biography

    Myron Michailidis is a Greek conductor, since 2019 Artistic Director of the new Cultural and Conference Center of Crete (CCCC), in Heraklion, Greece. He is regarded today as one of the most important Greek conductors.

  85. Theodosia Ntokou

    Theodosia Ntokou
    Born in
    Greece Flag Greece
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    classical pianist
    Biography

    Theodosia Ntokou is a Greek classical pianist.

  86. Shahla Aghapour

    Shahla Aghapour
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    writerpainterpoetsculptor
    Biography

    Shahla Aghapour, also known as Shahla Aghapour–Benakohell is an Iranian visual artist, author and gallery director living in Germany. She works both as a writer and poet, as well as a painter, sculptor, performance artist and director of Galerie-Benakohell.

  87. Sascha Pohflepp

    Sascha Pohflepp
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1978-2019 (aged 41)
    Occupations
    artistopinion journalist
    Biography

    Sascha Pohflepp was a German artist, designer, and writer whose work focused on the role of technology’s influence on the environment, often collaborating with scientists and other artists to explore this theme.

  88. Ruthild Hahne

    Ruthild Hahne
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1910-2001 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    resistance fightersculptor
    Biography

    Ruthild Hahne was a German sculptor. Her most productive phase coincided with the early years of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

  89. August Grahl

    August Grahl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1791-1868 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    portrait painterminiature painter
    Biography

    August Grahl was a German portrait painter and miniaturist.

  90. Johannes Haarklou

    Johannes Haarklou
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1847-1925 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    composerorganistconductormusic criticjournalist
    Biography

    Johannes Haarklou was a Norwegian composer, organist, conductor, and music critic.

  91. Will Aronson

    Will Aronson
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    William Landry Aronson is an American composer and writer for musical theater, whose work includes the scores for Pete the Cat, Mother, Me & the Monsters, and My Scary Girl. He also composed and co-wrote the book for the late 21st-century romance Maybe Happy Ending (2017), The Trouble with Doug, and Bungee Jump, cited by the NY Times in 2013 as Korea’s “most popular original musical,” and winner of Best Score at the Korean Musical Awards. Current projects include Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter and Wind-Up Girl.

  92. Moshe Ziffer

    Moshe Ziffer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1902-1989 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    artistsculptor
    Biography

    Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.

  93. Otto Altenkirch

    Otto Altenkirch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1875-1945 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Otto Altenkirch was a German Impressionist painter and set designer.

  94. Andrea Scrima

    Andrea Scrima
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    artist
    Biography

    Andrea Scrima is an American novelist, essayist, and artist living in Berlin, Germany. An extensive essay on her experiences as an American living more than half her life abroad appeared 3 July 2018 in The Millions. In 2021, these observations were continued in the essay “On the Weaponization of Language in a Traumatized Nation,” published in LitHub.

  95. Winfried Muthesius

    Winfried Muthesius
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Winfried Muthesius is a German painter, photographer and installation artist.

  96. Johanna Keimeyer

    Johanna Keimeyer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1982-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Johanna Keimeyer is a German artist known for her experiential work. She has designed lighting fixtures and experimented with various photography techniques. Her work often integrates technology with art, fashion, and design.

  97. Adolfo Odnoposoff

    Adolfo Odnoposoff
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1917-1992 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    music educatorcellist
    Biography

    Adolfo Odnoposoff was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former USSR. He had performed as principal cellist in the Israel Philharmonic and many of the important orchestras of Latin America. He had soloed with major orchestras under conductors that include Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Juan José Castro, Rafael Kubelik, Victor Tevah, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Carlos Chavez, Paul Kletzki, Luis Ximénez Caballero (es), Willem van Otterloo, Sir John Barbirolli, Eduardo Mata, Antal Doráti, Jorge Sarmientos (es), Erich Kleiber, George Singer (1908–1980), Ricardo del Carmen (1937-2003), Anshel Brusilow, Pau Casals and Enrique Gimeno. He also performed a Khachaturian work under the direction of Khachaturian.

  98. Thomas Eller

    Thomas Eller
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    photographerwritervisual artistexhibition curator
    Biography

    Thomas Eller is a German visual artist and writer. Born and raised in the German district of Franconia he left Nuremberg in 1985 to study fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. After his forced dismission he studied sciences of religion, philosophy and art history at Free University of Berlin. During this time he was also working as a scientific assistant at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB).

  99. Carla Henius

    Carla Henius
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1919-2002 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Carla Henius was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist. She played a decisive role in promoting recent works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono for the stage. She wrote the libretto for an opera by Aribert Reimann.

  100. Per Hüttner

    Per Hüttner
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    photographervisual artist
    Biography

    Per Hüttner is a Swedish visual artist who lives and works in Paris. He is mostly known for his photographic work and for his interactive, changing and travelling exhibition projects. A number of monographs about his practice has been published including Per Hüttner, 2003; I am a Curator, 2004; Repetitive Time 2006, Xiao Yao You2006, Democracy and Desire 2007. The Imminent Interviews 2010 and The Quantum Police 2011.