24 Notable alumni of
State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe

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The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe is 1851st in the world, 616th in Europe, and 68th 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.

  1. Emil Nolde

    Emil Nolde
    Born in
    Denmark Flag Denmark
    Years
    1867-1956 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1889-1890
    Occupations
    architectural draftspersonxylographerlithographerprintmakerdrawer
    Biography

    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.

  2. Peter Behrens

    Peter Behrens
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1868-1940 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1885-1887
    Occupations
    architectillustratorgraphic designertypographeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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 foundation 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.

  3. Max Klinger

    Max Klinger
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1857-1920 (aged 63)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1874-1875
    Occupations
    university teachersculptorprintmakerexlibristwriter
    Biography

    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.

  4. Otto Modersohn

    Otto Modersohn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1865-1943 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1888-1890
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.

  5. Anton von Werner

    Anton von Werner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1843-1915 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Anton Alexander von Werner was a German painter known for his history paintings of notable political and military events in the Kingdom of Prussia. One of the most famous painters of his time, he is regarded a main protagonist of the Wilhelmine period.

  6. Paul Renner

    Paul Renner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1878-1956 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    typographergraphic designertype designerprintmaker
    Biography

    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.

  7. Karl Hofer

    Karl Hofer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1878-1955 (aged 77)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1897
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherbooksellergraphic artistart educator
    Biography

    Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.

  8. Eugen Bracht

    Eugen Bracht
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1842-1921 (aged 79)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1859
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht was a German landscape painter.

  9. Heinrich Kley

    Heinrich Kley
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1863-1945 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    caricaturistpainterengravergraphic artistillustrator
    Biography

    Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator, editorial illustrator and painter.

  10. Ludwig von Hofmann

    Ludwig von Hofmann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1861-1945 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    graphic artistdesignerpainteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  11. Georg Scholz

    Georg Scholz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1890-1945 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    painterprintmaker
    Biography

    Georg Scholz was a German painter, member of the New Objectivity movement.

  12. Christian Wilhelm Allers

    Christian Wilhelm Allers
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1857-1915 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    paintervisual artistdrawerlithographerillustrator
    Biography

    Christian Wilhelm Allers was a German painter and printmaker.

  13. Ferdinand Keller

    Ferdinand Keller
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1842-1922 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

    Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller was a German genre and history painter.

  14. Alexander Kanoldt

    Alexander Kanoldt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1881-1939 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherprintmakerpoliticianlithographer
    Biography

    Alexander Kanoldt was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.

  15. Peter Dreher

    Peter Dreher
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1932-2020 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    graphic artistgraphic designerpainteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  16. Rudolf Levy

    Rudolf Levy
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1875-1944 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Rudolf Levy was a German expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry.

  17. Eduard von Gebhardt

    Eduard von Gebhardt
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1838-1925 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherartist
    Biography

    Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

  18. Paul Müller-Kaempff

    Paul Müller-Kaempff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1861-1941 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    lithographerpainter
    Biography

    Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

  19. Emil Rudolf Weiss

    Emil Rudolf Weiss
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1875-1942 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artistwritergraphic designerillustrator
    Biography

    Emil Rudolf Weiß was a German painter, typographer, graphic artist and poet.

  20. Lothar von Seebach

    Lothar von Seebach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1853-1930 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Baron Lothar von Seebach was an Alsatian painter, designer, watercolorist and engraver.

  21. Ulrich Hübner

    Ulrich Hübner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1872-1932 (aged 60)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1892-1895
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Ulrich Hübner was a German painter.

  22. Karl Hoff

    Karl Hoff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1838-1890 (aged 52)
    Enrolled in the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
    Studied in 1855-1858
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherwriter
    Biography

    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.

  23. Max Kohn

    Max Kohn
    Born in
    Luxembourg Flag Luxembourg
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainter
    Biography

    Max Kohn is a Luxembourgian painter and sculptor.

  24. Emil Dill

    Emil Dill
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1861-1938 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    painterillustrator
    Biography

    Emil Dill was a Swiss painter, watercolorist and art teacher.