Gotthard Graubner

Gotthard Graubner
Born13 June 1930
Erlbach, Germany
Died24 May 2013(2013-05-24) (aged 82)
Neuss, Germany
Known forPainter

Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3][4]

  1. ^ Karich, Swantje (15 May 2013). "Gotthard Graubner ist tot: Der Farbmagier – Kunst". Faz.net. FAZ. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  2. ^ Gisela Hossmann, "Gotthard Graubner (geb. 1930), Schwarze Haut (1969)", in Wibke von Bonin, ed., 100 Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt, Volume 4 (Cologne: vgs verlagsgesellschaft, 1988), pp. 162–68.
  3. ^ Helga Meister, Der Maler Gotthard Graubner ist tot, Westdeutsche Zeitung, 24 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Maler Gotthard Graubner gestorben", Zeit Online, 25 May 2013.