Gotthard Graubner

Who was Gotthard Graubner?

Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.

Graubner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in 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, 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 Museumsinsel Hombroich, Neuss, where he died shortly before his 83rd birthday.