Gotthard Graubner - Artist Info

About Gotthard Graubner

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    Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in 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 Museumsinsel Hombroich, Neuss, where he died shortly before his 83rd birthday.

    Graubner was born in 1930 in Erlbach (Saxony, Germany). From 1947 to 1948 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts...

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