Florian Süssmayr (born 1963 in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

) is a German painter from Munich. In the 1980th Süssmayr was involved in the

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and member of a punk band. In the 1990th he was working as a

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and

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. In doing so he was involved in the production of the movies

Am I Beautiful? ''Am I Beautiful?'' () is a 1998 German comedy film directed by Doris Dörrie. Premise People in German having trouble with love and identity. Cast * Marie Zielcke as Angelina * Carla Weindler as Carla * Julian Messner as Philip * Suzanne ...

and

Deathmaker ''Deathmaker'' () is a 1995 German film directed by Romuald Karmakar and starring Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch and Pierre Franckh. The film is based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer Fritz Haarmann. The film ...

amongst others.www.filmportal.de/ Overview
/ref> Since 1997 he devoted himself to the art of

oil painting Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...

. His works can be found in galleries in Munich, Tokyo and New York. For the motion picture

A Year Ago in Winter ''A Year Ago in Winter'' () is a 2008 German drama film directed by Caroline Link. It is based on the novel ''Aftermath'' by American author Scott Campbell, telling the story of a "complicated family situation" after the unexpected and unexplained ...

he provided the portray of

Karoline Herfurth Herfurth at Bayerischer Filmpreis 2012 Karoline Herfurth (; born 22 May 1984) is a German actress. Life and career Herfurth was born in East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of a psychologist mother and a geriatric nurse practitioner father. ...

which is central for the plot.

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1963 births Living people Painters from Munich 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub