49 Notable alumni of
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
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The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts is 1320th in the world, 454th in Europe, and 53rd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Otto Dix
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- draftspersonprintmakerlithographersculptoruniversity teacher
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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.
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George Grosz
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- 1909-1911 studied fine art
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- draftspersongraphic artistprintmakeruniversity teacherwriter
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George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.
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Viktor de Kowa
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- writerfilm producerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Viktor de Kowa was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet.
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Ludwig Richter
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- etcherautobiographerdraftspersongraphic artistuniversity teacher
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Adrian Ludwig Richter was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles.
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Karl Otto Götz
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- photographergraphic artistpainterartistuniversity teacher
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Karl Otto Götz, often simply called K.O. Götz, was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and active artists older than 100 years of age and is best remembered for his explosive and complex abstract forms. His powerful, surrealist-inspired works earned him international recognition in exhibitions like documenta II in 1959. Götz never confined himself to one specific style or artistic field. He also explored generated abstract forms through television art. Götz is one of the most important members of the German Art Informel movement. His works and teachings influenced future artists such as Sigmar Polke, Nam June Paik and Gerhard Richter. He lived in Wolfenacker from 1975 until his death.
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Philipp Veit
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- writerpainter
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Philipp Veit was a German Romantic painter and one of the main exponents of the Nazarene movement. It is to Veit that the credit of having been the first to revive the nearly forgotten technique of fresco painting is due.
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Georgios Drossinis
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- writerediting staffpoet
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Georgios Drosinis was a Greek author, poet, scholar and an editor. He is considered to be a co-founder of the New Athenian School (Greek literary Generation of the 1880s).
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Conrad Felixmüller
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- printmakerpainterillustrator
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Conrad Felixmüller was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Born in Dresden as Conrad Felix Müller, he chose Felixmüller as his nom d'artiste.
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Oskar Zwintscher
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1890-1892
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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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Ludwig von Hofmann
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- university teacherpainterdesignergraphic artist
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Ludwig von Hofmann was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Osmar Schindler
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Osmar Schindler was a German painter belonging to the Dresden Academy school of artists. His works were considered a mixture of impressionism and Art Nouveau.
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Gotthard Graubner
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- printmakeruniversity teacherpainter
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Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.
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Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel
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- university teachersculptorvisual artist
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Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel was a German sculptor.
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Carl Timoleon von Neff
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- university teacherpainterland owner
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Carl Timoleon von Neff, also russified from 1844 as Timofey Andreyevich Neff was a Russian Imperial artist of Baltic German descent.
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Lea Grundig
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- graphic artistpoliticianuniversity teacherpainterillustrator
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Lea Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist.
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
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- university teacherportraitistpainterhistory painter
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, born Vogel, was a German painter.
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Hans Grundig
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- graphic artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Hans Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.
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Paul Baum
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- porcelain paintervisual artisttextile artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Paul Baum, was a German painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was the most important representative of Neo-Impressionism in Germany.
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Aleksander Lesser
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- art criticpainterillustrator
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Aleksander Lesser was a Polish painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities. Lesser was Jewish, and became one of the first artists to depict scenes from modern Jewish history in Poland. He specialized in Polish historical and contemporary themes, and he was known and respected in artistic and scholarly circles. He was a member of Kraków's Academy of Learning and co-founder of Warsaw's Zachęta, the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts.
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Paul Ehrenberg
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- violinistpainter
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Paul Ehrenberg was a German violinist and impressionist painter, brother of Carl Ehrenberg and half-brother of Hilde Distel.
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Johannes Schilling
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- university teachersculptorteacher
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Johannes Schilling was a German sculptor.
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Robert Sterl
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- genre paintergraphic artistuniversity teachervisual artistpainter
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Robert Hermann Sterl was a German painter and graphic artist.
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Gotthardt Kuehl
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Gotthardt Kuehl was a German painter and a representative of early German Impressionism. He gained wide international recognition during his lifetime.
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Johann Christian Kammsetzer
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- architectdraftspersoninterior designergraphic artist
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Johann Christian Kammsetzer or Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer was a Dresden-born architect who was active primarily in Poland.
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Willy Jaeckel
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- university teacherpainterlithographergraphic artist
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Willy Gustav Erich Jaeckel was a German Expressionist painter and lithographer.
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Alexander von Sauerweid
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Gottlob Alexander Sauerweid was a Baltic German painter who taught battle painting at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts.
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Harald Metzkes
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1949-1953
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- draftspersongraphic artistphotographerpainterillustrator
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Harald Metzkes is a German painter and graphic artist.
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Ernst Julius Hähnel
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- university teachersculptorteacher
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Ernst Julius Hähnel was a German sculptor and Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
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Hermann Wislicenus
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1844
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- university teacherpainterdesignerhistory painter
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Hermann Wislicenus was a German historical painter. He is chiefly known for his mural paintings in the Imperial Palace of Goslar.
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Werner Stötzer
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1951-1953
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- draftspersongraphic artistuniversity teachersculptoretcher
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Werner Stötzer was a German artist and sculptor. For the last three decades of his life he lived and worked in Altlangsow (administratively part of Seelow) in the marshy Oderbruch region of Brandenburg.
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Theobald von Oer
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- illustratorpainter
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Theobald Reinhold Freiherr von Oer was a German painter, illustrator and etcher. He is notable for his portraits, genre paintings and historic paintings. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Arthur von Ramberg
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Arthur von Ramberg was an Austrian-born painter who worked in Germany.
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Arwed Roßbach
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- architect
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Max Arwed Roßbach was a German historicist architect in the late 19th century.
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Johann Karl Bähr
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- writeruniversity teacherpainter
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Johann Karl Bähr was a German painter and writer.
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Theodor Rocholl
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- writerpainter
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Theodor Rudoff Rocholl was a German military painter and war artist.
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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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Christian Leberecht Vogel
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- art theoristart historiandraftspersongraphic artistuniversity teacher
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Christian Leberecht Vogel was a German painter, draughtsman and writer on art theory. His pupils included Louise Seidler, and he was the father of court painter and art professor Carl Christian Vogel.
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Robert Diez
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- university teachersculptor
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Robert Diez was a German sculptor.
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Carl Johann Lasch
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1838
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- painter
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Carl Johann Lasch was a German artist of historical paintings. He was born in Leipzig. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. One of his teachers was Eduard Bendemann. He later attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. There he studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
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Carl Gottlieb Peschel
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Carl Gottlieb Peschel was a German painter. He was a member of the Nazarene movement.
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Otto Altenkirch
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- painter
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Otto Altenkirch was a German Impressionist painter and set designer.
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Carle Hessay
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- artist
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Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay, was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Canada in 1927, and later studied at art academies in Dresden and Paris. Hessay served as a Canadian soldier in World War II. After the establishment of peace, he moved to British Columbia, eventually settling in the town of Langley, where he took up art again in the 1950s. Some of his early paintings were done in the manner of Romantic realism. The influence of Expressionism soon became significant, with Hessay drawing on both the European and American movements, together with aspects of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven. He painted landscapes throughout his artistic life, as well as cityscapes, the Spanish Civil War, Biblical prophecy, and conceptions of the far future. A sizable fraction of his output consisted of abstract pieces. Over time, Hessay's depictions grew more symbolic, one commentator describing his late work as "brazenly metaphysical and apocalyptic". He often made his own pigments, and his style is distinguished by his use of colour, especially black. In 2014, a group of Canadian writers published poems based on his small abstracts. Hessay was the subject of a 2017 documentary film and art exhibition at the University of Victoria.
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Johann Siegwald Dahl
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- painter
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Johann Siegwald Dahl was a German animal painter.
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Friedrich Boser
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1826-1832
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- artistpaintergenre painter
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Karl Friedrich Adolf Boser was a German artist. He studied in Dresden, Berlin, and Düsseldorf; his paintings, chiefly genre subjects and portraits, were popular. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Robert Leinweber
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- illustratorpainter
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Anton Robert Leinweber was a Bohemian German painter and illustrator; known for his Orientalist and Biblical scenes.
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Edward Mateusz Jan Römer
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- painter
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Edward Mateusz Jan Oktawiusz Römer was a Baltic-German painter who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. His brother was the sculptor and painter, Alfred Izydor Römer and his father was Edward Jan Römer, a noted writer and social activist.
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Peter Alfred Schou
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- painter
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Peter Alfred Schou was a Danish painter.
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Christa Sammler
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- artistsculptor
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Christa Sammler is a German sculptor.
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Hanna Jessen
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1923-1925
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- non-fiction writerlecturersculptor
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Hanna Jessen was a Norwegian sculptor, lecturer and non-fiction author.
