260 - Werner Knaupp, “Head”, mixed media, 1974, framed

Werner Knaupp, “Head”, mixed media, 1974, framed Werner Knaupp, *born 1936 in Nuremberg, painter and sculptor, “Head”, face with closed eyes, mixed media/drawing, 30 x 40 cm, inscribed on the reverse “Head 13/74”, signed, dated (19)74, in the stretcher About the artist: Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1957 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1964, inter alia under Fritz Griebel. In 1970 and 1971, he was a visiting lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In 1977, he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel. From 1986 to 2001, Werner Knaupp taught as a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Works by the artist can be found in the collections of, inter alia, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Federal Collection in Bonn, the Dresden State Art Collections, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the State Art Collections and the Neue Galerie in Kassel, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, the Bavarian State Painting Collections - Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.