Josef Pieper - Artist Info

About Josef Pieper

  • Biography from Mehlis

    Landscape, portrait and figure painter and lithographer, Josef Bochum, 1907-1977, Dusseldorf, Germany, studied at the Folkwang School in Essen, the Dusseldorf Academy at Julius Paul Junghanns, and studied in Holland, Italy and South of France.

    He has received various honors such as 1935 Dürer prize, and 1936 the Grand National prize for painters and sculptors.

    In 1937-38 , he exhibited at the German Academy in Rome, the painting Villa Massimo, and in 1939-1944 at the Great German Art exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich.
  • Biography from Auctionata

    Josef Pieper was born 1907 in Bochum, Germany. He studied from 1922 to 1924 at the Folkwang School in Essen and further from 1924 to 1929 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Julius Paul Junghanns.

    Study trips took him to the South of France, Italy and Holland. For his work, mainly figures and landscapes, Pieper received, among others, the Dürer Price in 1935, the great State Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1936, as well as a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1938.

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