48 Notable alumni of
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
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The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts is 1329th in the world, 462nd in Europe, and 55th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 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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- writerillustratorlithographerphotographerarchitectural draftsperson
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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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- film producerfilm actorstage actorfilm directorpoet
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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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- exlibristgraphic artistuniversity teacherautobiographerpainter
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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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- painterartistuniversity teacherart educatorphotographer
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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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- poetwriterediting staff
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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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- painterillustratorprintmaker
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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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Ludwig von Hofmann
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- designergraphic artistfresco painteruniversity teacherpainter
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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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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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Gotthard Graubner
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- draftspersonprintmakeruniversity teacherenvironmental artistetcher
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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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Lea Grundig
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- politicianuniversity teacherpainterillustratorgraphic artist
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Lea Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist.
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Carl Timoleon von Neff
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- university teacherpainterland owner
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Carl Timoleon von Neff, also known from 1844 as Timofey Andreyevich Neff was a Russian artist of Baltic German descent.
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
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- portraitistpainterhistory painteruniversity teacher
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein was a German painter who specialised in portrait painting.
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Hans Grundig
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- university teacherpaintergraphic artist
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Hans Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.
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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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Paul Baum
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- textile artistuniversity teacherpainterporcelain paintervisual artist
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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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- painterillustratorart critic
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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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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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- graphic artistuniversity teachervisual artistpainterlandscape painter
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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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- interior designergraphic artistarchitectdraftsperson
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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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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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- painterillustratordraftspersongraphic artistphotographer
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Harald Metzkes is a German painter and graphic artist.
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Werner Stötzer
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1951-1953
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- university teachersculptoretcherdraftspersongraphic artist
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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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Hermann Wislicenus
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1844
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- painterdesignerhistory painteruniversity teacher
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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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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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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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- university teacherpainterwriter
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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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Robert Diez
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- university teachersculptor
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Robert Diez was a German sculptor.
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Christian Leberecht Vogel
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- draftspersongraphic artistuniversity teacherpainterhistory painter
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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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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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Johann Siegwald Dahl
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- painter
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Johann Siegwald Dahl was a German animal painter.
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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 Paris and Dresden. 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.
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Friedrich Boser
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1826-1832
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- paintergenre painterartist
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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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Christa Sammler
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- artistsculptor
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Christa Sammler is a German sculptor.
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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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Hanna Jessen
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1923-1925
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- lecturersculptornon-fiction writer
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Hanna Jessen was a Norwegian sculptor, lecturer and non-fiction author.
