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Grosse
Große or Grosse is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aristid von Grosse (1905–1985), German nuclear chemist *Ben Grosse, American record producer and mixer * Carl Grosse (1768–1847), German author, translator, philosopher, and mineralogist * Catrin G. Grosse (born 1964), German painter, graphic designer and sculptor * Charles le Grosse (c. 1596–1650), English politician * Christina Große (born 1970), German actress *Demetrius Grosse (born 1981), American actor and producer * Doris Große (born 1884), German artists' model for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner * Fritz Große (1904–1957), German politician and diplomat *George R. Grosse (1930–2016), American politician *Hans-Werner Grosse (1922–2021), German bomber pilot *Heinz-Josef Große (1947–1982), East German construction worker *Johannes Große (born 1997), German field hockey player *Julius Grosse (1828–1902), German poet *Katharina Grosse (born 1961), German visual artist *Maurice Grosse (1919� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Grosse
Katharina Grosse (born 2 October 1961) is a German visual artist. She is known for her large-scale, site-related installations to create immersive visual experiences. Grosse's work employs a use of architecture, sculpture and painting. She has been using an industrial paint-sprayer to apply prismatic swaths of color to a variety of surfaces since the late 1990s, and often uses bright, unmixed sprayed-on acrylic paints to create both large-scale sculptural elements and smaller wall works. Early life and education Grosse was born in 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Grosse studied at the from 1982 to 1986, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1986 to 1990. In subsequent years, she completed artist-in-residence programs at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy (1992); Chinati Foundation in Marfa, USA (1999); Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand (2001); and Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA (2002). Work Grosse maintains studios in Berlin's Moabit d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetrius Grosse
Demetrius Grosse (born February 26, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Rock in the film ''Straight Outta Compton'', Emmett Yawners in the Cinemax television series ''Banshee,'' Errol in the FX television series '' Justified'', and Baron Samedi in NBC's ''Heroes''. He is currently set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Eric Williams / Grim Reaper in the Disney+ series ''Wonder Man''. Early life Born in Washington, D.C., Grosse began performing in stage productions as a child at the Summer Musical Theater Workshop, developing a repertoire as an actor, singer, and dancer. Early in his career, Grosse cut hair at Legends, a well-known Los Angeles barber shop. After graduating from Washington's Gonzaga College High School, Grosse attended the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, where he received the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Undergraduate Grant for artistic merit. In 2002, Grosse completed a visiting student program in which he completed tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Grosse
Carl Friedrich August Grosse (5 June 1768 – 15 March 1847) also known as Edouard Romeo Vargas-Bedemar was a German author, translator, aesthetic philosopher, and mineralogist. He is best known for his gothic novel ''Der Genius'', which was translated into English by Peter Will as '' Horrid Mysteries,'' subtitled "A Story From the German Of The Marquis Of Grosse" and subsequently referenced by Jane Austen as one of the seven 'horrid novels' in ''Northanger Abbey''. His philosophy focused on the aesthetics of sublimity, following the work of Friedrich Schiller, and provided one of the first philosophical treatments of imagination. Biography Grosse was born in Magdeburg, Germany on 5 June 1768, the son of Erenst Grosse, a successful doctor, and Dorothea Elizabeth Amalia Schröder. In 1786, he enrolled at the University of Göttingen to study medicine, and began his literary career there with essays on the sublime and transmigration of the soul, as well as engaging in translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Grosse
Maurice Grosse (6 March 1919 – 14 October 2006) was a British paranormal investigator. Famous for his involvement in the Enfield Poltergeist case from 1977 to 1979, he has been portrayed in several films and television series, including '' The Enfield Haunting'' (2015) by Timothy Spall and '' The Conjuring 2'' (2016) by Simon McBurney. Early life Grosse was educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. After serving an apprenticeship in commercial art and design, he served in the Second World War with the Royal Artillery and was among those evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940. Commissioned in 1941, he became responsible for the guarding and welfare of Italian prisoners of war for the remainder of the war. He married his wife Betty Yasny in 1944 and they had two daughters and a son. After the war he became an inventor, and he filed the first of his many mechanical patents in 1945. His most successful invention was the rotating advertising billboard. In 1961 Grosse fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Werner Grosse
Hans-Werner Grosse (28 November 1922 – 18 February 2021) was a German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and glider pilot who established 50 world records approved by FAI Gliding Commission. Early life Grosse was born in Swinemünde, now Świnoujście in Poland, in 1922. In 1936 he learned to fly on a Hitler Youth school glider. He crashed once during his training and was seriously injured. At the age of 21 he became a power pilot and flew Junkers Ju 88 bombers in the Mediterranean theatre. He was shot down in a Ju 88 torpedo-bomber over the Mediterranean on 6 June 1944. He ditched at night with a burning engine 35 km south of Toulon. After some time in hospital in Paris, he was sent to Norway to fly Ju 88s against the Arctic Convoys. After the war he settled in Lübeck. From 1950 he set up a regional specialist shop for jeans, other trousers and outerwear at Königstrasse 85, which he named ''Manchester Große'' after the fabric used for corduroy trousers. Gliding career Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Grosse
Ben Grosse is an American record producer and mixer. Grosse has mixed and produce albums for numerous music industry acts, primary in the heavy metal and hard rock genres. His credits include Dream Theater, Marilyn Manson, Sevendust, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Filter, Fuel, Depeche Mode, Richard Barone, Alter Bridge, Red, Vertical Horizon, Love and Death, Starset, Hollywood Undead, Ben Folds, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Underoath, and Vattica, among others. He has produced the songs " Higher Ground" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, " Ready to Go" by Republica, " Graduate" (from the '' Can't Hardly Wait'' soundtrack) by Third Eye Blind, and "She Don't Use Jelly" by the Flaming Lips. He also co-produced the ''Billboard '' number-one song " Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon. He owns the North Hollywood North Hollywood is a neighborhood and district in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District, El Portal Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twila Grosse
Twila Rose Grosse (born 1961 or 1962) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2023 Preston provincial by-election. She is the first Black Canadian member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia caucus. Early life and education Grosse grew up in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia and graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University in 1983.Governance Committee Board Nominations Report United Way Halifax Career Grosse worked at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport for 36 years until her retirement in 2020, having worke ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristid Von Grosse
Aristid von Grosse (January 1905 – July 21, 1985) was a Germans, German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium(V) oxide and was later able to produce metallic protactinium by decomposition of protactinium(V) iodide. From 1948 to 1969, he was president of the Research Institute of Temple University and was later affiliated with the laboratories of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement in 1979. In 1971, he received a United States Atomic Energy Commission award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear energy." Aristid was born in Riga in January 1905 and moved to the United States in 1930. He retired in 1979 and died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985. References 1905 births 1985 deaths Scientists from Riga 20th-century American chemists People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Le Grosse
Sir Charles Le Grosse (1596 – 1650) of Crostwight Hall near North Walsham in Norfolk, England, was a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1653. Origins Le Grosse was the son of Sir Thomas Le Grosse / Le Gros (died 1613) of Crostwight and of Sloley, both in Norfolk, by his wife Elizabeth Cornwallis, a daughter of Sir Charles Cornwallis, of Brome, Suffolk, MP.History of Parliament The Le Grosse family probably descended from William Gross of Norfolk, a land-holder mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The chest tomb of Oliver le Gros (died 1435) survives in St Bartholomew's Church, Sloley, displaying the arms of Le Gross: ''Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets or'', which also survive on the "Crostwight Flagon", a silver wine flagon made in 1585 by Peterson of Norwich, presented to Crostwight Church probably by Thomas Le Gross, now in Norwich Castle Museum. Career He was knighted on 6 December 1616 and served as She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Grosse
Julius Waldemar Grosse (25 April 1828 – 9 May 1902), Germany, German poet, the son of a military chaplain, was born at Erfurt. Biography He received his early education at the gymnasium in Magdeburg, and on leaving school and showing disinclination for the Christian ministry, ministry, entered an architect's office. But his mind was bent upon literature, and in 1849 he entered the university of Halle, where, although inscribed as a student of law, he devoted himself almost exclusively to letters. His first poetical essay was with the tragedy ''Cola di Rienzi'' (1851), followed in the same year by a comedy, ''Eine Nachtpartie Shakespeares'', which was at once produced on the stage. The success of these first two pieces encouraged him to follow literature as a profession, and proceeding in 1852 to Munich, he joined the circle of young poets of whom Paul Heyse and Hermann Lingg (1820–1905) were the chief. For six years (1855–1861) he was dramatic critic of the Neue München ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Grosse
Ulrich Grosse (born 27 March 1953, in Nagold in the district of Calw) is a German public transport consultant. He was in 1983 one of the first specialists who advised counties in terms of public passenger transport. Numerous transport concepts and the reactivation of a number of railroad tracks are based on his work. Life and career Ulrich Grosse grew up in Nagold and studied mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen. From 1972 to 1982 he represented the city of Nagold in committee meetings of the Regional Association of the Northern Black Forest and the Chamber of Commerce of that region. He was involved in the improvement of transport service on the Nagold Valley Railway. From 1972 he worked with a citizens' initiative to reactivate the Ammertalbahn. In 1978 he became a teacher. In 1984 he succeeded in implementing a new station south of Balingen after decades of closure of stations. This was the first time that a new train stop outside of metropolitan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Grosse
Nina Grosse (born 11 August 1958) is a German film director and screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television .... She has directed 14 films since 1983. Her 2004 film '' Olga's Summer'' was entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The Glass Sky'' (1987) * ''Tote leben nicht allein'' (1990, TV film) * ''Kinder der Nacht'' (1995, TV film) * '' Rider of the Flames'' (1998) * '' Olga's Summer'' (2004) * ' (2009, TV film) * '' The Weekend'' (2012) * ' (2014) References External links * 1958 births Living people Mass media people from Munich {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
