55 Notable alumni of Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design
Updated: May 30, 2026 EliteDegrees
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design is ranked #3,878 in the world and #150 in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Adolf Schill
1848-1911 (aged 63)
university teacher
architect
illustrator
Adolf Schill, often also Adolph Schill, was a German architect, interior designer, artisan, illustrator and painter of the historism. As a university lecturer he worked at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1880 and 1911, thus helping to shape the later phase of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Students of sculpture also studied with him.
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2. Byung Chul Kim
1974-. (aged 52)
painter
artist
Byung Chul Kim is a South Korean artist based in Germany since 2004. He works in performance, drawing, painting and video.
3. Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
1893-1965 (aged 72)
painter
university teacher
printmaker
photographer
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was a German-born Australian artist.
4. Friedrich von Keller
1840-1914 (aged 74)
painter
Friedrich von Keller was a German genre painter.
5. Gustav Halmhuber
1862-1936 (aged 74)
painter
exlibrist
university teacher
architect
Gustav Halmhuber was a German architect and university teacher. His style reflected the flamboyance and brittle optimism of the early twentieth century. Perhaps his best known surviving work – also one of his earliest commissions – is the WaterTower (1886–1889) in Mannheim.
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6. Peter Gamper
1940-. (aged 86)
university teacher
athletics competitor
sprinter
Peter Gamper is a retired German sprinter. He won a European title in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1962 European Athletics Championships, together with Manfred Germar, Hans-Joachim Bender and Klaus Ulonska. Individually, he finished third in the 100 m, behind Claude Piquemal and Jocelyn Delecour.
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7. Johann Gotthard von Müller
1747-1830 (aged 83)
copper engraver
lithographer
Johann Gotthard von Müller was a German line engraver.
8. Jakob Gauermann
1773-1843 (aged 70)
painter
draftsperson
copper engraver
Jakob Gauermann was a German landscape and genre painter and engraver born in Oeffingen, near Stuttgart.
9. Ferdinand Hartmann
1774-1842 (aged 68)
painter
university teacher
Christian Ferdinand Hartmann was a German portrait and Classical history painter.
10. Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter
1762-1852 (aged 90)
history painter
painter
Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter was a German painter. Wächter died in Stuttgart.
11. Käte Schaller-Härlin
1877-1973 (aged 96)
painter
Käte Schaller-Härlin, née Härlin (born 19 October 1877 in Mangalore; died 9 May 1973 in Stuttgart-Rotenberg), was a German painter known for portraits, still lifes, and monumental church paintings.
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12. Otto Reiniger
1863-1909 (aged 46)
painter
Otto Reiniger was a German landscape painter in the Impressionistic style. Most of his works feature the area immediately surrounding Stuttgart, and he was particularly praised for his depictions of flowing water.
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13. Alf Bayrle
1900-1982 (aged 82)
painter
Alf Bayrle, also known as Alf Singer-Bayrle, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.
14. Willy Wiedmann
1929-2013 (aged 84)
painter
poet
composer
writer
sculptor
Wilhelm Richard Heinrich "Willy" Wiedmann was a German painter, muralist, sculptor, musician, composer, writer, author, publisher, and art dealer.
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15. Luisa Richter
1928-2015 (aged 87)
painter
Luisa Richter, born Louise Kaelble, was a German-born Venezuelan painter, printmaker, collage artist, and educator based in Caracas. Trained in Stuttgart under Willi Baumeister (1949–1955), she relocated to Caracas in 1955 and developed an abstract practice that included informalist painting, geometric "planar spaces", and an extensive body of collage work. She participated in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 1966 exhibition...
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16. Bernhard Buttersack
1858-1925 (aged 67)
painter
Bernhard Buttersack was a German landscape painter of the Munich School.
17. Hermann Baisch
1846-1894 (aged 48)
university teacher
painter
etcher
Hermann Baisch was a German painter and illustrator who specialized in landscapes and animals. He was one of the first artists in Germany to work in the French influenced "paysage intime" style.
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18. Käthe Loewenthal
1877-1942 (aged 65)
visual artist
painter
Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry. She was murdered in the Shoah. The Painter Susanne Ritscher was her sister.
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19. Hermann Pleuer
1863-1911 (aged 48)
painter
Hermann Pleuer was a German Impressionist and landscape artist who is best known for his paintings of the Royal Württemberg State Railways.
20. Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret
1767-1845 (aged 78)
painter
architect
Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret was a German architect and designer.
21. Philipp Bauknecht
1884-1933 (aged 49)
painter
Philipp Bauknecht was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. Most of his works are landscapes and still-lifes.
22. Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch
1758-1838 (aged 80)
painter
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes.
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23. Christian Landenberger
1862-1927 (aged 65)
painter
university teacher
Christian Adam Landenberger was a German Impressionist painter and a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He is especially known for his landscapes.
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24. Carl Eytel
1862-1925 (aged 63)
illustrator
painter
Carl Eytel was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with the author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of...
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25. Karl Etzel
1812-1865 (aged 53)
engineer
civil engineer
architect
railway engineer
Karl von Etzel was a German railway engineer and architect. He created many famous railway lines, bridges and viaducts, including the Bietigheim Enz Valley Viaduct.
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26. Ludwig Wilding
1927-2010 (aged 83)
painter
visual poet
university teacher
sculptor
visual artist
Ludwig Wilding was a German visual artist, whose work is associated with Op art and Kinetic art. Wilding lived in Düsseldorf, and Westheim, Germany.
27. Gebhard Fugel
1863-1939 (aged 76)
painter
Gebhard Fugel was a German painter specializing in Christian themes. He is best known for his work as the leading artist of the Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting.
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28. Stefan Diez
1971-. (aged 55)
designer
Stefan Diez is a German industrial designer whose Munich-based studio, DIEZ OFFICE, develops furniture, accessories, and exhibition designs.
29. Ferdinand Max Bredt
1860-1921 (aged 61)
painter
Ferdinand Max Bredt was a German Orientalist painter, noted for his studies of female figures.
30. Karin Sander
1957-. (aged 69)
painter
draftsperson
artist
sculptor
visual artist
Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.
31. Heinrich Nauen
1880-1940 (aged 60)
university teacher
painter
printmaker
Heinrich Nauen was a German Expressionist artist. He created oils, watercolors, and prints; as well as murals and mosaics. A large part of his output consists of landscapes and floral still-lifes.
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32. Gottlieb Schick
1776-1812 (aged 36)
painter
Christian Gottlieb Schick was a German Neoclassical painter. His history paintings, portraits, and landscapes are characterized by romantic tendencies. Of these, he is best known for his portraits.
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33. Carl Offterdinger
1829-1889 (aged 60)
illustrator
painter
Carl Offterdinger was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator.
34. Maria Caspar-Filser
1878-1968 (aged 90)
painter
university teacher
Maria Caspar-Filser was a German painter. She lived and worked mainly in Munich.
35. Anton Braith
1836-1905 (aged 69)
painter
university teacher
Anton Braith was a German landscape and animal painter. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
36. Rolf Nesch
1893-1975 (aged 82)
painter
sculptor
graphic artist
printmaker
Rolf Nesch (January 7, 1893 – October 27, 1975) was a German-born Norwegian expressionist artist, especially noted for his printmaking.
37. Heinrich von Zügel
1850-1941 (aged 91)
painter
teacher
animal painter
university teacher
Heinrich Johann von Zügel was a German painter who specialized in pictures of farm and domestic animals, often posed with a human in a dramatic or humorous situation.
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38. Hermann Stenner
1891-1914 (aged 23)
painter
graphic designer
graphic artist
Hermann Stenner was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist.
39. Willi Baumeister
1889-1955 (aged 66)
muralist
watercolorist
university teacher
collagist
graphic artist
Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. In the early part of his career he developed a style of abstract painting that emphasized geometry, flat planes, and hard edges. The pictorial language of his later work is characterized by organic forms and symbols influenced by his appreciation of prehistoric art.
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40. F. W. Bernstein
1938-2018 (aged 80)
university teacher
writer
caricaturist
poet
photographer
F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
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41. HAP Grieshaber
1909-1981 (aged 72)
illustrator
printmaker
university teacher
designer
xylographer
Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.
42. Heinrich Füger
1751-1818 (aged 67)
painter
miniaturist
Heinrich Friedrich Füger was a German classicist portrait and historical painter.
43. Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
1758-1841 (aged 83)
university teacher
sculptor
artist
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker was a German sculptor and director of an art school.
44. Aiga Rasch
1941-2009 (aged 68)
graphic designer
illustrator
photographer
Aiga Rasch was a German illustrator, graphic artist, and painter.
45. Johannes Itten
1888-1967 (aged 79)
painter
architect
draftsperson
writer
photographer
Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.
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46. Oskar Schlemmer
1888-1943 (aged 55)
costume designer
university teacher
graphic artist
sculptor
puppeteer
Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school.
47. Paul Maar
1937-. (aged 89)
screenwriter
writer
translator
children's writer
illustrator
Paul Maar is a German novelist, playwright, translator, and illustrator notable for his contributions to children's literature.
48. Robert Gernhardt
1937-2006 (aged 69)
film director
illustrator
television writer
film screenwriter
television actor
Robert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
49. Christoph Niemann
1970-. (aged 56)
artist
animator
writer
blogger
postage stamp designer
Christoph Niemann is a German-American illustrator, graphic designer, and children's book author.
50. Frans Krajcberg
1921-2017 (aged 96)
screenwriter
painter
sculptor
visual artist
photographer
Frans Krajcberg was a Polish-born Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. Krajcberg found peace after World War II through nature, and after moving to São Paulo in 1948 his connection with the natural world drove him to use mixed-medium art for environmental activism from the 1960s onward. Known for his environmental activism, Krajcberg denounced the destruction of the Brazilian forests,...
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51. Grete Stern
1904-1999 (aged 95)
painter
designer
artist
photographer
Grete Stern was a German-Argentine photographer. Between April 1930 and March 1933, she studied at the Bauhaus. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935.
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52. Joseph Anton Koch
1768-1839 (aged 71)
painter
illustrator
graphic artist
Joseph Anton Koch was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
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53. Emil Rudolf Weiss
1875-1942 (aged 67)
illustrator
graphic artist
etcher
exlibrist
typographer
Emil Rudolf Weiß was a German painter, typographer, graphic artist and poet.
54. Karl Hofer
1878-1955 (aged 77)
graphic artist
visual artist
painter
illustrator
bookseller
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
55. Eric Carle
1929-2021 (aged 92)
writer
graphic designer
children's writer
illustrator
Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?....
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