55 Notable alumni of
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
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The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design is 1122nd in the world, 399th in Europe, and 45th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 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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- writergraphic designerchildren'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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- painterarchitectdraftspersonwriterphotographer
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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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- costume designeruniversity teachergraphic artistsculptorpuppeteer
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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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- screenwriterwritertranslatorchildren's writerillustrator
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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 directorillustratortelevision writerfilm screenwritertelevision 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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- artistanimatorwriterbloggerpostage stamp designer
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Christoph Niemann is a German-American illustrator, graphic designer, and children's book author.
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Frans Krajcberg
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- screenwriterpaintersculptorvisual artistphotographer
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Frans Krajcberg was a Polish-born Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. Krajcberg found peace after World War II through nature, and after moving to São Paulo in 1948 his connection with the natural world drove him to use mixed-medium art for environmental activism from the 1960s onward. 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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Grete Stern
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- painterdesignerartistphotographer
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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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Joseph Anton Koch
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- painterillustratorgraphic artist
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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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Willi Baumeister
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- muralistwatercoloristuniversity teachercollagistgraphic artist
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Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. In the early part of his career he developed a style of abstract painting that emphasized geometry, flat planes, and hard edges. The pictorial language of his later work is characterized by organic forms and symbols influenced by his appreciation of prehistoric art.
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Karl Hofer
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- graphic artistvisual artistpainterillustratorbookseller
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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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- university teacherwritercaricaturistpoetphotographer
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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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HAP Grieshaber
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- illustratorprintmakeruniversity teacherdesignerxylographer
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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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- university teachersculptorartist
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker was a German sculptor and director of an art school.
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Aiga Rasch
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- graphic designerillustratorphotographer
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Aiga Rasch was a German illustrator, graphic artist, and painter.
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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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- painterteacheranimal painteruniversity teacher
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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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- paintergraphic designergraphic artist
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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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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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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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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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- university teacherpainterprintmaker
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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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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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Emil Rudolf Weiss
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- illustratorgraphic artistetcherexlibristtypographer
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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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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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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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Karl Etzel
- Enrolled in the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
- Studied in 1831-1835
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- engineercivil engineerarchitectrailway 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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- paintervisual poetuniversity teachersculptorvisual artist
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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 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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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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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
- Occupations
- painter
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Käte Schaller-Härlin, née Härlin (born 19 October 1877 in Mangalore; died 9 May 1973 in Stuttgart-Rotenberg), was a German painter known for portraits, still lifes, and monumental church paintings.
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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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Willy Wiedmann
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- painterpoetcomposerwritersculptor
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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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Luisa Richter
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- painter
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Luisa Richter, born Louise Kaelble, was a German-born Venezuelan painter, printmaker, collage artist, and educator based in Caracas. Trained in Stuttgart under Willi Baumeister (1949–1955), she relocated to Caracas in 1955 and developed an abstract practice that included informalist painting, geometric "planar spaces", and an extensive body of collage work. She participated in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 1966 exhibition The Emergent Decade: Latin American Painters and Painting in the 1960's and represented Venezuela at the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978, where she exhibited twelve oil paintings and thirty collages. In Venezuela, she received the National Prize of Drawing and Engraving (1967) and the National Prize of Plastic Arts (1981). In 2002 she received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 2008 her hometown of Besigheim established the Luisa Richter Prize for visual arts.
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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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- university teacherpainteretcher
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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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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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Jakob Gauermann
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- painterdraftspersoncopper engraver
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Jakob Gauermann was a German landscape and genre painter and engraver born in Oeffingen, near Stuttgart.
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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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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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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
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- painteruniversity teacherprintmakerphotographer
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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was a German-born Australian artist.
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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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- painterexlibristuniversity 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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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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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.
