24 Notable alumni of
State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
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The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe is 1859th in the world, 626th in Europe, and 70th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Emil Nolde
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1889-1890
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- photographergraphic artistsculptorpainterdraftsperson
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Emil Nolde was a German-Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals.
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Peter Behrens
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1885-1887
- Occupations
- furniture designerpaintergraphic designerindustrial designeruniversity teacher
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Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
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Max Klinger
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1874-1875
- Occupations
- visual artistvolunteer serving one yearexlibristuniversity teacherwriter
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Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil (Youth Style) the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. He is best known today for his many prints, particularly a series entitled Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove and his monumental sculptural installation in homage to Beethoven at the Vienna Secession in 1902.
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Otto Modersohn
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1888-1890
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.
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Anton von Werner
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- history painterpainter
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Anton Alexander von Werner was a German painter and illustrator, best known for his depictions of the Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany, typical of the Naturalist style. Member of the Akademie der Künste from 1874, Werner was a favourite of all the three German Emperors, William I, Frederick III, and Wilhelm II.
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Paul Renner
- Occupations
- graphic designertypographerprintmakertype designer
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Paul Friedrich August Renner was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most successful and most-used types of the 20th century.
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Karl Hofer
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1897
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- visual artistart educatorgraphic artistbookselleruniversity teacher
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Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
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Eugen Bracht
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1859
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teacher
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Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht was a German landscape painter.
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Heinrich Kley
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- graphic artistengraverpaintercaricaturistillustrator
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Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator, editorial illustrator and painter.
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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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Georg Scholz
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- printmakerpainter
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Georg Scholz was a German painter, member of the New Objectivity movement.
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Ferdinand Keller
- Occupations
- university teacherpainterillustrator
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Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller was a German genre and history painter.
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Christian Wilhelm Allers
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- draftspersonvisual artistpainterillustratorlithographer
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Christian Wilhelm Allers was a German painter and printmaker.
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Alexander Kanoldt
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- politicianprintmakeruniversity teacherpainterlithographer
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Alexander Kanoldt was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.
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Peter Dreher
- Occupations
- university teacherpaintergraphic designergraphic artist
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Peter Dreher was a German artist and academic teacher. He painted series of landscapes, interiors, flowers and skulls, beginning his series Tag um Tag guter Tag in 1974. As a professor of painting, he influenced artists including Anselm Kiefer. His works have been exhibited internationally.
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Rudolf Levy
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- painter
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Rudolf Levy was a German expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry.
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Eduard von Gebhardt
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- artistuniversity teacherpainter
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Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
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Paul Müller-Kaempff
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- painterlithographerdraftsperson
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Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Emil Rudolf Weiss
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- visual artistgraphic designergraphic artisttypographerwriter
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Emil Rudolf Weiß was a German painter, typographer, graphic artist and poet.
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Lothar von Seebach
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- painter
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Baron Lothar von Seebach was an Alsatian painter, designer, watercolorist and engraver.
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Ulrich Hübner
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1892-1895
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Ulrich Hübner was a German painter.
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Karl Hoff
- Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
- Studied in 1855-1858
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherpainter
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Karl Heinrich Hoff was a German genre painter, best known for his 18th century period scenes. He is generally referred to as The Elder, to distinguish him from his son, Karl Heinrich, who was also a painter.
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Max Kohn
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- paintersculptor
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Max Kohn is a Luxembourgish painter and sculptor.
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Emil Dill
- Occupations
- illustratorpainter
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Emil Dill was a Swiss painter, watercolorist and art teacher.
