56 Notable alumni of
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
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The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design is 1097th in the world, 389th in Europe, and 45th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Eric Carle
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- writerchildren's writerillustrator
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Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
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Johannes Itten
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- photographergraphic artistpainterarchitectdraftsperson
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Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.
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Oskar Schlemmer
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- paintercostume designeruniversity teachergraphic artistsculptor
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Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.
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Paul Maar
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- photographerscreenwriterwritertranslatorchildren's writer
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Paul Maar is a German novelist, playwright, translator, and illustrator notable for his contributions to children's literature.
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Robert Gernhardt
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- film directorwriterillustratorfilm screenwriterfilm actor
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Robert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
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Christoph Niemann
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- visual artistartistanimatorwriterblogger
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Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, graphic designer, and children's book author.
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Aiga Rasch
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- photographergraphic designerillustrator
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Aiga Rasch was a German illustrator, graphic artist and painter.
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Frans Krajcberg
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- visual artistphotographerscreenwriterpaintersculptor
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Frans Krajcberg was a Polish-born Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. Known for his environmental activism, Krajcberg denounced the destruction of the Brazilian forests, using materials such as burnt wood from illegal forest fires in his artworks.
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Joseph Anton Koch
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- graphic artistpainterillustrator
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Joseph Anton Koch was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
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Grete Stern
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- photographerpainterdesignerartist
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Grete Stern was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935.
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Willi Baumeister
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- photographerdraftspersongraphic designergraphic artisttypographer
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Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Karl Hofer
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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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F. W. Bernstein
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- poetphotographeruniversity teacherwritercaricaturist
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F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
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Michel Majerus
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- artistsculptorpainter
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Michel Majerus was a Luxembourgish artist who combined painting with digital media in his work. He lived and worked in Berlin until his untimely death in a plane crash in November 2002.
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HAP Grieshaber
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- graphic artistpainterdraftspersonillustratorprintmaker
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Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.
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Heinrich Füger
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- painterminiaturist
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Heinrich Friedrich Füger was a German classicist portrait and historical painter.
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
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- artistuniversity teachersculptor
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker was a German sculptor and director of an art school.
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Rolf Nesch
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- paintersculptorgraphic artistprintmaker
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Rolf Nesch (January 7, 1893 – October 27, 1975) was a German-born Norwegian expressionist artist, especially noted for his printmaking.
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Heinrich von Zügel
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- university teacherpainterteacheranimal painter
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Heinrich Johann von Zügel was a German painter who specialized in pictures of farm and domestic animals, often posed with a human in a dramatic or humorous situation.
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Hermann Stenner
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designer
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Hermann Stenner was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist.
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Gebhard Fugel
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- painter
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Gebhard Fugel was a German painter specializing in Christian themes. He is best known for his work as the leading artist of the Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting.
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Ferdinand Max Bredt
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- painter
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Ferdinand Max Bredt was a German Orientalist painter, noted for his studies of female figures.
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Gottlieb Schick
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- painter
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Christian Gottlieb Schick was a German Neoclassical painter. His history paintings, portraits, and landscapes are characterized by romantic tendencies. Of these, he is best known for his portraits.
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Stefan Diez
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- designer
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Stefan Diez is a German industrial designer whose Munich-based studio, DIEZ OFFICE, develops furniture, accessories, and exhibition designs.
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Karin Sander
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- painterdraftspersonartistsculptorvisual artist
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Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.
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Heinrich Nauen
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- printmakeruniversity teacherpainter
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Heinrich Nauen was a German Expressionist artist. He created oils, watercolors, and prints; as well as murals and mosaics. A large part of his output consists of landscapes and floral still-lifes.
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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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Carl Offterdinger
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- illustratorpainter
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Carl Offterdinger was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator.
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Maria Caspar-Filser
- Enrolled in the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
- Studied in 1896-1901
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Maria Caspar-Filser was a German painter. She lived and worked mainly in Munich.
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Anton Braith
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Anton Braith was a German landscape and animal painter. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
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Carl Eytel
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- illustratorpainter
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Carl Eytel was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with the author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert, and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as an ascetic and would die in poverty. Eytel's most important work, Desert Near Palm Springs, hangs in the History Room of the California State Library.
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Christian Landenberger
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Christian Adam Landenberger was a German Impressionist painter and a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He is especially known for his landscapes.
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Karl Etzel
- Enrolled in the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
- Studied in 1831-1835
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- architectrailway engineerengineercivil engineer
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Karl von Etzel was a German railway engineer and architect. He created many famous railway lines, bridges and viaducts, including the Bietigheim Enz Valley Viaduct.
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Ludwig Wilding
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- photographerpaintervisual poetuniversity teachersculptor
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Ludwig Wilding was a German visual artist, whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art. Wilding lived in Düsseldorf, and Westheim, Germany.
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Käthe Loewenthal
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- visual artistpainter
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Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry. She was murdered in the Shoah. The Painter Susanne Ritscher was her sister.
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Hermann Pleuer
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- painter
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Hermann Pleuer was a German Impressionist and landscape artist who is best known for his paintings of the Royal Württemberg State Railways.
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Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret
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- painterarchitect
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Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret was a German architect and designer.
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Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
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- painter
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Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes.
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Philipp Bauknecht
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- painter
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Philipp Bauknecht was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. Most of his works are landscapes and still-lifes.
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Willy Wiedmann
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- art dealerpainterpoetcomposerwriter
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Wilhelm Richard Heinrich "Willy" Wiedmann was a German painter, muralist, sculptor, musician, composer, writer, author, publisher, and art dealer.
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Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter
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- history painterpainter
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Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter was a German painter. Wächter died in Stuttgart.
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Käte Schaller-Härlin
- Enrolled in the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
- Studied in 1909-1909
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- painter
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Käte Schaller-Härlin was a German painter.
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Otto Reiniger
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- painter
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Otto Reiniger was a German landscape painter in the Impressionistic style. Most of his works feature the area immediately surrounding Stuttgart, and he was particularly praised for his depictions of flowing water.
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Alf Bayrle
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- painter
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Alf Bayrle, also known as Alf Singer-Bayrle, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.
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Luisa Richter
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- painter
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Luisa Richter born Louise Kaelble, was a Venezuelan-based graphic artist and professor originally from Germany. She was born in Besigheim, Germany and died in Caracas, Venezuela. Her art was heavily influenced by post-war movements and Bauhaus. She later moved to Venezuela in 1955 where she spent the rest of her life, won many awards International awards, became a professor at the Neumann Institute in Caracas, and founded Prodiseño, one of the biggest graphic design schools in Venezuela.
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Bernhard Buttersack
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- painter
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Bernhard Buttersack was a German landscape painter of the Munich School.
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Hermann Baisch
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- etcheruniversity teacherpainter
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Hermann Baisch was a German painter and illustrator who specialized in landscapes and animals. He was one of the first artists in Germany to work in the French influenced "paysage intime" style.
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Jakob Gauermann
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- copper engraverpainterdraftsperson
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Jakob Gauermann was a German landscape and genre painter and engraver born in Oeffingen, near Stuttgart.
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Johann Gotthard von Müller
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- copper engraverlithographer
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Johann Gotthard von Müller was a German line engraver.
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Byung Chul Kim
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- painterartist
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Byung Chul Kim is a South Korean artist based in Germany since 2004. He works in performance, drawing, painting and video.
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Ferdinand Hartmann
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Christian Ferdinand Hartmann was a German portrait and Classical history painter.
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Peter Gamper
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- university teacherathletics competitorsprinter
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Peter Gamper is a retired German sprinter. He won a European title in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1962 European Athletics Championships, together with Manfred Germar, Hans-Joachim Bender and Klaus Ulonska. Individually, he finished third in the 100 m, behind Claude Piquemal and Jocelyn Delecour.
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Friedrich von Keller
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- painter
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Friedrich von Keller was a German genre painter.
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Gustav Halmhuber
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- university teacherarchitect
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Gustav Halmhuber was a German architect and university teacher. His style reflected the flamboyance and brittle optimism of the early twentieth century. Perhaps his best known surviving work – also one of his earliest commissions – is the WaterTower (1886–1889) in Mannheim.
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Adolf Schill
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- university teacherarchitectillustrator
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Adolf Schill, often also Adolph Schill, was a German architect, interior designer, artisan, illustrator and painter of the historism. As a university lecturer he worked at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1880 and 1911, thus helping to shape the later phase of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Students of sculpture also studied with him.
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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
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- photographerpainteruniversity teacherprintmaker
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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was a German-born Australian artist.
