16 Notable alumni of Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

Updated: June 08, 2026 EliteDegrees

Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig is 5445st in the world, 1st in North America, and 178st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 16 notable alumni from Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Sixtus Armin Thon

1. Sixtus Armin Thon

1817-1901 (aged 84)
painter lithographer genre painter photographer
Sixtus Armin Thon was a German painter, etcher and lithographer. There is widespread disagreement over whether his name was Sixtus or Sixt, even though his gravestone says "Sixtus".
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Arno Rink

2. Arno Rink

1940-2017 (aged 77)
painter university teacher
Arno Rink was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with the second generation of the Leipzig School, which paints in a German figurative tradition.
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Günter Rössler

3. Günter Rössler

1926-2012 (aged 86)
fashion photographer photographer photojournalist
Günter Rössler was a German photographer who made a name for himself especially in the field of nude art photography. A pioneer of nude photography in East Germany and notable fashion photographer, Rössler was often referred to by the media as the Helmut Newton of East Germany, stylized since Playboy published in 1984 a photo-gallery titled: Mädchen der DDR (Girls...
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Carl Werner

4. Carl Werner

1808-1894 (aged 86)
university teacher landscape painter painter watercolorist architectural painter
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner was a German watercolor painter.
Anna Haifisch

5. Anna Haifisch

1986-. (aged 40)
comics artist illustrator graphic artist
Anna Haifisch is a German cartoonist and illustrator who has been working for German and international media. She is best known for her cartoons titled The Artist, first published by Vice magazine, her 2018 doodle for Google and her contribution to the series Drawn to MoMA of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Her work has received several awards...
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Fritz Quant

6. Fritz Quant

1888-1933 (aged 45)
painter lithographer etcher illustrator
Franz Xaver Friedrich Quant, known as Fritz was a German painter, graphic artist and designer.
Renate Rössing

7. Renate Rössing

1929-2005 (aged 76)
photographer
Renate Rössing was a German photographer. Her career continued beyond the changes of 1989/90. Prior to that, as an East German citizen, she enjoyed privileges which enabled her to travel abroad. She is nevertheless best known for pictures taken in and around her home cities of Leipzig and Dresden during the 1950s and 1960s. Her work embraced photojournalism, portraiture and...
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Doris Ziegler

8. Doris Ziegler

1949-. (aged 77)
painter
Doris Ziegler is a German painter whose work responded to and engaged with the Wende and the peaceful revolution in the GDR during the late 1980s.
Neo Rauch

9. Neo Rauch

1960-. (aged 66)
painter photojournalist university teacher draftsperson
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and...
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Jan Tschichold

10. Jan Tschichold

1902-1974 (aged 72)
designer type designer lecturer graphic artist typographer
Jan Tschichold ( German pronunciation: [jan ˈtʃɪçɔlt]; born Johannes Tzschichhold; (2 April 1902 – 11 August 1974), also known as Iwan Tschichold or Ivan Tschichold, was a German calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He played a significant role in the development of graphic design in the 20th century – first, by developing and promoting principles of typographic modernism, and subsequently...
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Lucia Moholy

11. Lucia Moholy

1894-1989 (aged 95)
photographer editing staff teacher opinion journalist information professional
Lucia Moholy was a photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience. However, Moholy was seldom credited for her work, which was often attributed to her husband László Moholy-Nagy or to Walter Gropius.
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Wolfgang Mattheuer

12. Wolfgang Mattheuer

1927-2004 (aged 77)
graphic designer university teacher sculptor photographer graphic artist
Wolfgang Mattheuer was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Together with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig he was a leading representative of the Leipzig School, a figurative art current in East Germany. He came to prominence with allegorical, pessimistic and sometimes heroic paintings which were accused of expressing political dissidence. He was later an open critic of both socialism...
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Katarzyna Kozyra

13. Katarzyna Kozyra

1963-. (aged 63)
sculptor performance artist artist video artist performing artist
Katarzyna Kozyra is a Polish video artist. She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988). In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Kozryra received a Paszport Polityki award in 1997 as the most promising artist in Poland. She has exhibited...
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Gustav Jäger

14. Gustav Jäger

1808-1871 (aged 63)
painter draftsperson illustrator
Gustav Jäger was a German painter.
Oskar Zwintscher

15. Oskar Zwintscher

1870-1916 (aged 46)
university teacher painter visual artist
Oskar Zwintscher was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.
Hannes Hegen

16. Hannes Hegen

1925-2014 (aged 89)
graphic designer comics artist caricaturist illustrator author
Hannes Hegen was a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.
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