Klaus Fußmann

Klaus Fußmann ( born March 24, 1938 in Velbert ) is a contemporary German painter and printmaker.

He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.

His work has won several awards, so in 1972 with the price of the Villa Romana Florence and the Art Prize of Böttcherstrasse in Bremen. In 1979 he was awarded the art prize of the city of Darmstadt. Significant presentations of his work found among others in 1972 in the New National Gallery in Berlin in 1982 on the Mathildenhoehe in Darmstadt, 1988 at the Kunsthalle in Emden, held in 1992 at the Kunsthalle Bremen, 2003 at the Museum on East Wall in Dortmund. On the occasion of his 70th birthday were on display in 2008 in Schleswig Holstein comprehensive exhibitions State Museum, in the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and in the Mannheimer Kunstverein.

From 1974 to 2005 Klaus Fußmann held a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

In 2005 he painted a monumental ceiling fresco in the Hall of Mirrors of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg. Klaus Fußmann lives and works in Gelting on the Baltic Sea and in Berlin.