Klaus Fußmann (born March 24, 1938), is a contemporary German painter.Diese Bilder sind ein Lob der Vergänglichkeit
/ref> Fußmann was born in Velbert, Germany. He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the

Folkwang University of the Arts The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...

in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universit ...

. From 1974 to 2005, he was a

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at the Berlin University of the Arts. Fußmann now divides his time living and working between Berlin and

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on the

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. His work has won several awards, such as the

Villa Romana prize The Villa Romana Prize, german: Villa-Romana-Preis, italic=no, is an art prize awarded by the Deutscher Künstlerbund. It was established in 1905 and is the oldest German art award. The prize consists of a one-year artistic residence in the ...

in 1972 and the Art Award of Darmstadt in 1979. Major presentations of his work include exhibitions at the

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in Berlin, 1972; the

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in Darmstadt, 1982; the Kunsthalle Emden, 1988; the

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, 1992; and the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, 2003. For his seventieth birthday in 2008 comprehensive exhibitions were held at

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, in the Free Academy of Arts in

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, and at the

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Arts League. In 2005 Fußmann completed a monumental ceiling painting in the Mirror Hall of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

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A selection of Fußmann's paintings and works on paper (German).
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