22 Notable alumni of
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg
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The University of Fine Arts of Hamburg is 1587th in the world, 540th in Europe, and 62nd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Otto Waalkes
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- screenwriterdub actoractorcomediancabaret performer
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Otto Gerhard Waalkes, also known as simply Otto, is a German comedian, actor, musician, writer and comic book artist. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and films. His best known trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.
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Loriot
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- caricaturistactordirectortelevision presentertelevision actor
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Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow, known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot ( German: [loˈʁi̯oː] ), was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. As an artist, he was almost exclusively known under his pen name Loriot, which is the french term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of the Bülow family.
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Fatih Akin
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Fatih Akin is a Turkish-German film director, screenwriter and producer. His films have won numerous awards and accolades, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film Head-On (2004), Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival for his film The Edge of Heaven (2007), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his film In the Fade (2017).
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Oliver Hirschbiegel
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- film directordirectorscreenwriter
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Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar-nominated Downfall.
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Martin Kippenberger
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- photographerchoreographerinstallation artistsculptorillustrator
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Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
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Jonathan Meese
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- performance artistsculptorchoreographerdrawerartist
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Jonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist, and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater. He is mainly concerned with personalities of world history, primordial myths and heroes. Jonathan Meese lives and works in Ahrensburg and Berlin.
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Isa Genzken
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- installation artistcollagistdrawerpaintervideo artist
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Isa Genzken is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photography, video, film and collage.
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Horst Janssen
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- lithographergraphic artistdrawerphotographergraphic designer
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Horst Janssen was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings.
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Astrid Proll
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- photographerjournalist
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Astrid Huberta Isolde Marie Luise Hildegard Proll was an early member of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang). She is a photo editor and published a book.
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Hanne Darboven
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- composerdrawerpainterphotographerconceptual artist
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Hanne Darboven was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.
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Yüksel Yavuz
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Yüksel Yavuz is a Kurdish film director from Turkey.
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Ute Meta Bauer
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- curatoruniversity teacher
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Ute Meta Bauer. She is an international curator, professor of contemporary art and the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore.
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Wiebke Siem
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- sculptorfashion designerartistprofessor
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Wiebke Siem is a German mixed media artist of German and Polish heritage, winner of the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring in 2014 as "one of the most innovative and original artists who has never compromised in their art and whose sculptures have a tremendous aura and presence because they mix the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known and the unknown".
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Wolfgang Lauenstein
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- film director
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Wolfgang Lauenstein is a German film director, writer and animator.
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Cornelia Sollfrank
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- artistcomputer artist
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Cornelia Sollfrank is a German digital artist, she was an early pioneer of Net Art and Cyberfeminism in the 1990s.
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Hans Breder
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- video artistpainter
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Hans Dieter Breder was a German-American interdisciplinary artist. He lived and worked in Iowa.
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Alfonso Hüppi
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- university teacherdesignersculptorpaintergraphic artist
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Alfonso Hüppi is a Swiss painter.
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Nicolaus Schmidt
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- painterhistorianphotographer
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Nicolaus Schmidt is a German artist, photographer and historian. He studied at the Hamburg Art Academy (HfBK) in the 1970s. In 1975, he founded ROSA, one of Germany’s first gay magazines. During the 1980s, he was a volunteer with the German branch of the children’s rights organization Terre des Hommes, serving for a time as its chairman. Since 1991, he has been living and making art in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg.
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Angelika Platen
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- photographer
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Angelika Platen is a German photographer known internationally for her portraits of artists.
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Bernhard Cella
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- artistcuratorexhibition curator
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Bernhard Cella is an Austrian artist and curator.
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Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi
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- university teacherwriterdrawer
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Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi is a South Korean graphic artist, author and university teacher living in Germany, with a focus on drawing. From 2015 to 2019 she was a professor for drawing at the University of the Arts Bremen and has been a professor for drawing at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin since 2019. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin.
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Nana Rosenørn Holland Bastrup
- Enrolled in the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg
- Studied in 2010-2015
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- painter
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Nana Rosenørn Holland Bastrup is a Danish artist. She lives and works in Copenhagen. She is a member of the artist duo Enfants Terribles and founder of Popdada
