Kurt Kranz - Artist Info

About Kurt Kranz

  • Biography

    When it came to art, Kurt Kranz thought in series, form groups and variants. Whether in paintings, photographs, graphic designs or experimental films – he was interested in the endless game of change, the processes of transformation. The experimental education at the Bauhaus lastingly influenced his development.

    Kurt Kranz was born in 1910 in Emmerich am Rhein. From 1925 to 1930, he completed a lithographer apprenticeship in Bielefeld. At the same time, Kranz took evening courses at the local applied arts school. He came to the Bauhaus Dessau in 1930 and studied with teachers such as Josef Albers, Joost Schmidt, Walter Peterhans, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

    In 1933, Kurt Kranz received the Bauhaus diploma. He worked...

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