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Lutz Mommartz (born 6 March 1934 in Erkelenz) is a German film director (collaborator, director, script, camera, editing, music, producer, production management, recording management).
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Lutz Mommartz (born 6 March 1934 in Erkelenz) is a German film director (collaborator, director, script, camera, editing, music, producer, production management, recording management).
Lutz Mommartz moved with his parents to Düsseldorf in 1937. From 1952 to 1975 he worked at local government administration of Düsseldorf as an inspector. Since 1967, when he gave up painting, Lutz Mommartz began shooting 16mm films. [1] In the same year, he won a world-famous filmpreis with his film "Selbstschüsse" at the international experimental film festival in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. On 1 October 1975 he founded a film class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Department of Kunsterzieher Münster. In 1977, he received the Federal Film Prize in silver for Beckett and 1978 the same for The Garden of Eden. In 1978 he received the professorship for film at the Künstakademie Münster. He is currently working on securing and distributing his archive.
Lutz Mommartz lives and works today in Düsseldorf, from 2001 to 2011 also in Berlin.
Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wolf Vostell was married to the Spanish writer Mercedes Vostell and has two sons, David Vostell and Rafael Vostell.
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser, were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the Düsseldorf School of Photography, they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
Emil Schult is a German painter, poet and audio-visual artist.
Christoph Meckel was a German author and graphic artist. He received awards for his works which connect illustrations with the written text, sometimes texts by others.
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Günther Uecker is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.
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Max von der Grün was a German novelist.
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Peter Janssens was a German musician and composer who wrote and performed incidental music for several theatres, and songs and musicals of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, a pioneer of Sacropop. He worked at a German theatre in Buenos Aires, set several works by Ernesto Cardenal to music and composed in 1992 a passion music, in memory of 500 years after the European invasion in Latin America.
Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek, was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin's Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera Katharina Blum based on Heinrich Böll's novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards.
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The Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf was opened on 3 April 1883 and closed at the end of the school year 1918. In 1919, its architectur training was transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
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