40 Notable alumni of
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts is 1407th in the world, 475th in Europe, and 58th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 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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George Grosz
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- 1909-1911 studied fine art
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- photographerarchitectural draftspersonpainterdrawergraphic artist
- Biography
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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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Ludwig Richter
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- university teacherillustratorautobiographergraphic artistetcher
- Biography
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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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Viktor de Kowa
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- film actorstage actorfilm directorpoetsinger
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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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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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- poetwriter
- Biography
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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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- illustratorengravergraphic artistvisual artistpainter
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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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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 teachersculptor
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Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel was a German sculptor.
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Carl Timoleon von Neff
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- land owneruniversity teacherpainter
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Carl Timoleon von Neff, also Timofey Andreyevich Neff was a Russian Imperial artist of Baltic German descent.
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
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- portraitistuniversity teacherpainter
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, born Vogel, was a German painter.
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Oskar Zwintscher
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1890-1892
- Occupations
- visual artistuniversity teacherpainter
- Biography
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Oskar Zwintscher was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.
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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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Lea Grundig
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- illustratorgraphic artistpoliticianuniversity teacherpainter
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Lea Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist.
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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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Paul Baum
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- porcelain painteruniversity teacherpainter
- Biography
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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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- illustratorart criticpainter
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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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Robert Sterl
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- illustratorgraphic artistvisual artistuniversity teacherpainter
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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
- Occupations
- architect
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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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- graphic artistuniversity teacherpainterlithographer
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Willy Gustav Erich Jaeckel was a German Expressionist painter and lithographer.
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Alexander 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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Ernst Julius Hähnel
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- teacheruniversity teachersculptor
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Ernst Julius Hähnel was a German sculptor and Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
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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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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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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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Hermann Wislicenus
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- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- draweruniversity teachersculptor
- Biography
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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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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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- drawerillustratorpainter
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Gustav Jäger was a German painter.
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Robert Diez
- Occupations
- university teachersculptor
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Robert Diez was a German sculptor.
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Christian Leberecht Vogel
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- art historiangraphic artistart theoristuniversity teacherpainter
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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 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
- Biography
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Otto Altenkirch was a German Impressionist painter and set designer.
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Friedrich Boser
- Enrolled in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1826-1832
- Occupations
- 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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Johann Siegwald Dahl
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- painter
- Biography
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Johann Siegwald Dahl was a German animal painter.
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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/Polish painter who spent much of his career in what is now Belarus. 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
- Biography
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Peter Alfred Schou was a Danish painter.
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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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Christa Sammler
- Occupations
- artistsculptor
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerlecturersculptor
- Biography
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Hanna Jessen was a Norwegian sculptor, lecturer and non-fiction author.
