Gerhard Gleich (born 23 October 1941 in

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) is an artist and professor ''

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'' of the

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. He grew up as Gerhard Feest and later adopted the name of his second wife, the

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-Austrian painter

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. A student of

Albert Paris Gütersloh Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; 5 February 1887 – 16 May 1973) was an Austrian painter and writer. Gütersloh worked as actor, director, and stage designer before he focused on painting in 1921. As a teacher of Ar ...

, he was from 1972 to 1997 an assistant of the Viennese painter and art professor

Wolfgang Hollegha Wolfgang Hollegha (4 March 1929 – 2 December 2023) was an Austrian painter of the post-war generation. His œuvre and artistic approach is related to Abstract expressionism, American Abstract Expressionism and this essential quality is character ...

. Today he works in the academy's Institute for Conceptual Art with Professor

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. He is the brother of

Christian Feest Christian Feest (born July 20, 1945) is an Austrian ethnologist and ethnohistorian. Biography Feest was born on July 20, 1945, in Broumov. He specializes in the Native Americans of eastern North America and the Northeastern United States and t ...

and

Johannes Feest Johannes Feest (born 21 November 1939 in Berlin) is a German penologist and sociologist of law. He studied law in Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany) and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 ...

Literature

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, ''Über

Paul Rotterdam Paul Rotterdam (born 12 February 1939) is an Austrian-born American painter. Biography Werner Paul Zwietnig-Rotterdam was born and grew up in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, (heavily bombed during World War II). He moved with his parents to Leoben ...

und Gerhard Feest'', in: Forum (Vienna) Nr. 160, pp. 365 seq.

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