Artist

Gotthard Graubner

Portrait of Gotthard Graubner
Portrait of Gotthard Graubner

German, 1930–2013

Gotthard Graubner was a German Contemporary Abstract artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Gotthard Graubner was born in Erlbach.

Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany. Graubner studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in Germany, before becoming a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg in 1969 and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1976. His work Black Skin (Schwarze Haut), was selected to be featured in one of the 100 Great Paintings programmes by the BBC in 1980.

For the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in Düsseldorf and on the Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss, where he died shortly before his 83rd birthday.

Works by Gotthard Graubner

Collections represented

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