Award
August Macke Prize
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q880775 · wikidata
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Gotthard Graubner
1930-06-13 – 2013-05-24
Life & Legacy
Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.
Graubner studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in Germany, before becoming a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg in 1969 and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1976. His work Black Skin (Schwarze Haut), was selected to be featured in one of the 100 Great Paintings programmes by the BBC in 1980. For the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in Düsseldorf and on the Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss, where he died shortly before his 83rd birthday.
Occupation & Career
university teacher, painter, printmaker, photographer, teacher, etcher, draftsperson, graphic artist, environmental artist, artist
Education
Berlin University of the Arts; Dresden Academy of Fine Arts; Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications
August Macke Prize; Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Legacy Highlights
Honors & Awards
August Macke Prize · Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Employer
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Organizations & Memberships
Sächsische Akademie der Künste
Education & Institutions
Berlin University of the Arts · Dresden Academy of Fine Arts · Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Verified Legacy Record
Award
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q880775 · wikidata
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q880775 — wikidata View source
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