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Heinz Eberhard Strüning
Heinz Eberhard Strüning (2 May 1896 – 11 March 1986) was a German painter, graphic artist and pastel painter. Life Born in Aplerbeck, Strüning studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1922 to 1924 and at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1925 to 1926. From 1927, he was a resident of Leipzig and from 1937 until his death he lived in Machern (Saxony). From 1947 to 1951 he taught as a lecturer at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and since then he worked as a freelance artist in Machern. Among others, he was a teacher of Gerhard Eichhorn Gerhard Eichhorn (3 May 1927 – 15 December 2015) was a German graphic artist, painter and draughtsman. Life Born in Judenbach, Eichhorn attended the in Sonneberg in 1942/43 and from 1945 to 1947, graduating as a ceramic modeller. From 1950 .... Strüning was a member of the . An increasing eye complaint led to blindness in 1984. Strüning once said about himself: ''"I create from the full, because I am filled to ...
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Graphic Artist
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published media, published, print media, printed, or electronic media, such as brochures and advertising. They are also sometimes responsible for typesetting, illustration, user interfaces. A core responsibility of the designer's job is to present information in a way that is both accessible and memorable. Qualifications Designers should be able to solve visual communication problems or challenges. In doing so, the designer must identify the communications issue, gather and analyze information related to the issue, and generate potential approaches aimed at solving the problem. Iterative Prototype, prototyping and user testing can be used to determine the success or failure of a visual solution. Approaches to a communications problem are developed ...
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Pastel
A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those used to produce some other colored visual arts media, such as oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation. The color effect of pastels is closer to the natural dry pigments than that of any other process. Pastels have been used by artists since the Renaissance, and gained considerable popularity in the 18th century, when a number of notable artists made pastel their primary medium. An artwork made using pastels is called a pastel (or a pastel drawing or pastel painting). ''Pastel'' used as a verb means to produce an artwork with pastels; as an adjective it means pale in color. Pastel media Pastel sticks or crayons consist of powdered pigment combined with a binder. The exact composition and characteristics of an individ ...
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Aplerbeck
Aplerbeck is a borough (''Stadtbezirk'') of the city of Dortmund in the Ruhr district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since 1929, it has been a suburb of Dortmund, located in the city's south-east. The river Emscher, a tributary of the Ruhr, crosses Aplerbeck. Aplerbeck was first documented as a village in 899. The place is associated with the death of two martyrs both named Ewald in the 7th century, according to the Golden Legend. Aplerbeck was the location of mining and heavy industry as part of the Ruhr from the 19th century to 1926, resulting in a larger population and the building of a representative town hall and a larger church. A psychiatric hospital of regional importance, founded in 1890, is still in operation, now as . History The first document mentioning Aplerbeck, then ''Afaldrabechi'', is a founding document (''Stiftungsurkunde'') of 899, a term containing "apple" and "creek". According to the Golden Legend, two missionaries, the Two Ewalds, were killed ne ...
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Dresden Academy Of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product of a merger between the famous Dresden Art Academy, founded in 1764, the workplace and training ground of a number of influential European artists, and another well-established local art school, Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, after World War II. History Buildings One of three buildings of today’s Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built in 1894, is located at a prominent position in town on Brühl's Terrace just next to the Frauenkirche. Since 1991, the building built by Constantin Lipsius on Brühl's Terrace between 1887 and 1894 – the glass dome of which is also known as Lemon Squeezer due to its form – has been heavily renovated and the parts that were destroyed during World War II were recon ...
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Kunsthochschule Kassel
Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel . Notable people * Daniel Stieglitz * Peter Angermann * Sinan Akkuş * Bernhard, Count of Bylandt * Julius Bien (1826-1909) * August Bromeis * Paul Ehrhardt (1888-1981), student 1929-1931 * Bernd Friedmann * Horst Gläsker * Ludwig Emil Grimm * Dörte Helm (1898-1941), student 1915-1918 * Siglinde Kallnbach, attended 1976 - 1983 * Harry Kramer * Eduard Niczky * Bjørn Melhus * Eva Moll * Amalie Tischbein * Halsey Rodman * Hans Sautter (1877–1961), became professor in 1919, director from 1931 to 1933 * Wilhelm Schmidthild Wilhelm Schmidthild (January 30, 1876 in Hildesheim, Germany as Wilhelm Schmidt – January 30, 1951 in Peine, Germany) was a German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and art professor. He chose as his field detailed documentation as an il ... * Curt Witte (18 ...
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Machern
Machern () is a municipality in the Leipzig district in Saxony, Germany. It is in the vicinity of the city of Leipzig. Geography Machern lies 20 km east of Leipzig, about 10 km west of Wurzen over the river Mulde. The Leipzig-Riesa-Dresden railway line runs through the town, as does the B 6. Machern is approximately 12 km south of Eilenburg, which can be reached with the B 107. The divisions of the municipality are Machern, Gerichshain with Posthausen, and Püchau with Dögnitz (first historic mention 1313Festkomitee in Dögnitz, Ortschronist Klaus Ungewiß (Püchau): ''Festschrift 700 Jahre Dögnitz – anlässlich der 700-Jahr-Feier von Dögnitz am 27.+28. September 2013.'' Dögnitz 2013, .), Lübschütz und Plagwitz. Culture There is a museum located in the Lübschützer Teiche Stasi Bunker about 3 km north of Machern. The bunker was designed as a refuge for Stasi employees from Leipzig in the event of nuclear war or similar catastrophe. Ma ...
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Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of the communist East ...
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Hochschule Für Grafik Und Buchkunst Leipzig
The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ..., photography and new media art.HGB Leipzigarticle on the school's history/ref> It is the home of two notable modern art movements, the so-called Leipzig School and New Leipzig School. References Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig {{Germany-university-stub ...
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Gerhard Eichhorn
Gerhard Eichhorn (3 May 1927 – 15 December 2015) was a German graphic artist, painter and draughtsman. Life Born in Judenbach, Eichhorn attended the in Sonneberg in 1942/43 and from 1945 to 1947, graduating as a ceramic modeller. From 1950 to 1955, he studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Elisabeth Voigt, Heinz Eberhard Strüning and Heinz Wagner. He completed an Aspirantur with from 1955 to 1958, at the same time leading the evening class in nude drawing. From 1959 to 1964, he was a teacher at the Leipzig College of Applied Arts, and from 1966 to 1992, he was a lecturer at the Leipzig College of Graphic Arts and Book Art, as well as head of the workshop for etchings and copperplate engraving. From 1968, he was also head of the painting and graphic arts department. From 1976, he was vice-rector and from 1978, associate professor of this teaching institution. From 1964 to 1970, he was chairman of the Bezirk Leipzig of the and a m ...
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Edition Leipzig
Edition Leipzig was a publisher in the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR), which, for the most part, placed books on Western markets as an export publisher. This was intended to serve representative purposes as well as to procure foreign currency. Today, the publishing house is part of the Seemann Henschel publishing group, which was taken over by in October 2017 with a program on regional and cultural history. From 1960 to 1984 more than book titles were published, of which more than 500 were published in foreign languages and about 60 even in multilingual versions. In the first phase, which lasted up to 1965, the publication of scientific and technical books predominated. Later, cultural and art historical as well as popular scientific works were added to a greater extent. The Edition Leipzig became known for high-quality facsimiles and historical reprints. Fictional titles were rare, and marketing for this genre was discontinued as it was seen as not being profitable ...
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