24 Notable alumni of
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg
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The University of Fine Arts of Hamburg is 1599th in the world, 554th in Europe, and 62nd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 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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- screenwriterfilm directorsingerdub actorcaricaturist
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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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- draftspersonscreenwriterfilm directorcabaret performerwriter
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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 produceractorfilm actorscreenwriterfilm director
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Fatih Akin is a 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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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
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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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- paintervisual artistillustratoruniversity teacherinstallation artist
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Martin Kippenberger was a German painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist, and photographer. He became 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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Rebecca Horn
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- visual artistfilm directorscreenwritersculptorartist
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Rebecca Horn was a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing and body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. While living in Paris and Berlin, she worked in film, sculpture and performance, directing the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990).
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Jonathan Meese
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- new media artistartistdraftspersonchoreographersculptor
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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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- photographerfilmmakervideo artistpainterdraftsperson
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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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Daniel Richter
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- artistdraftspersonarchitectural draftspersonteacheruniversity teacher
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Daniel Richter is a German artist. He is based in Berlin, and was previously active in Hamburg. He is known for large-scale oil paintings.
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Astrid Proll
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- journalistphotographer
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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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Horst Janssen
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- graphic designerphotographerdraftspersongraphic artistlithographer
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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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Hanne Darboven
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- artistconceptual artistphotographerdraftspersoncomposer
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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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- film directorscreenwriter
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Yüksel Yavuz is a Kurdish film director from Turkey.
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Ute Meta Bauer
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- editorcuratorlecturerartistuniversity 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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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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Wiebke Siem
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- fashion designersculptorprofessorartist
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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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Cornelia Sollfrank
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- computer artistartist
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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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- paintervideo artist
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Hans Dieter Breder was a German-American interdisciplinary artist. He lived and worked in Iowa.
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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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Alfonso Hüppi
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- graphic artistpaintersculptordesigneruniversity teacher
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Alfonso Hüppi is a Swiss painter.
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Nicolaus Schmidt
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- photographerhistorianpainter
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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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Bernhard Cella
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- artistexhibition curatorcurator
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Bernhard Cella is an Austrian artist and curator.
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Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi
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- writeruniversity teacherdraftsperson
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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.
