Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne, and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 653,253.
Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world.
Düsseldorf Airport is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day.
Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa (JDU) is a Polish public university in Czestochowa, established in 1971 as the Higher Teacher Education School in Czestochowa. Since 2004, it has been named after Jan Dlugosz.
Beatriz Feitler was a Brazilian designer and art director best known for her work in Harper's Bazaar, Ms., Rolling Stone and the premiere issue of the modern Vanity Fair.
Ralf Brueck is a German artist.
Düsseldorf-Bilk station is a through station in the district of Bilk in the city of Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platforms and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.
Yury Kharchenko is a Russian German artist. He lives and works in Berlin.
The imai Foundation was founded in 2006 as imai - inter media art institute. It is an institution dedicated to the preservation, research and distribution of video art and media art and associated activities. The foundation organizes workshops, conferences, screenings, exhibitions, research projects and case studies concerning the current questions of conservation and restoration of media art. It aims to develop further the possibilities of (digital) preservation, presentation and distribution of media art.
Elias Wessel is a visual artist living and working in New York and Germany.
Cornelia Denz is a German Professor of Physics at the University of Münster. She works in nonlinear optics and nanophotonics, and is a Fellow of The Optical Society and The European Optical Society. Denz is the current president of the PTB and of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Detmar Jobst Wilhelm Westhoff is a German art historian and curator. He is very committed to artistic projects that build a bridge between Asia and Europe, to young experimental artists, local cultural policy and monument protection.
Beate West-Leuer is a German professor, psychotherapist, consultant and coach.
Gabriele Henkel, was a German art collector, art patron, author and artist. She was married to Konrad Henkel, the long-standing head of the Henkel Group.
Juergen Staack is a German minimalist and conceptual artist based in Düsseldorf.
Laurenz Berges is a German photographer. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as Master Student under Bernd Becher in 1996. Berges' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Jörg Sasse is a German photographer. His work uses found images that are scanned, pixelated and manipulated.
Willi Hoselmann was a German sculptor.
Ursula G. T. Müller is a German feminist, sociologist and former Secrerary of State of Schleswig-Holstein. From the late 1970s, she has played an important part in developing interest in women's studies, from 1976 at the Technical University of Dortmund, then at the University of Bielefeld where from 1989 until her retirement in 2012 she was Professor of Women's Studies. In parallel, she became the first director of the university's Interdisciplinary Centre for Women's Studies. She has published widely on the subject of gender studies.
