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Michael Croissant (Landau in der Pfalz 1928 - München 2002) - Sell & Buy

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Croissant counts among the most outstanding representatives of German sculpture in the second half of the 20th century. After an apprenticeship as a stonemason and attending a private art school, he studied at the Munich Art Academy under Toni Stadler, and from 1966 to 1988 he held a professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. C. left behind a very extensive oeuvre of over 1500 works. The central theme of his art was the figure, his style is characterised by radical simplification of form and abstraction. Mus.: Städel-Museum, Frankfurt a.M.; Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen und Lenbachhaus, Munich; Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg; Museum Ludwig, Cologne etc.

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