Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler

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Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler (* 1956 ) is a German artist ( painter , draftsman ).

Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler began studying at the Leipzig University of Graphic Art and Book Art in 1980, which he dropped out in the same year. In 1981 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists and has been working as a freelancer ever since. 1983 to 1986 he lived and worked in Berlin and Leipzig .

Scheffler is seen as a loner, as an "extraterritorial" with a tendency to anarchic, refusing to conform. In the early eighties, his artistic work and attitude had a great influence both on himself and on a younger generation of artists in the GDR, which he left in 1986. He moved to West Berlin . From then on, Paris , Amsterdam and Biel were stops. He lives and works in Berlin and Dresden .

In 2007 he received the Hans Theo Richter Prize from the Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden .

In 2009/2010 he took part in the exhibition "Art and Cold War, German Positions 1945 to 1989" organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the other stations of which are the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

Since 2012 Scheffler professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden .

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  1. ↑ Prof. Wolfram A. Scheffler website of the HfBK Dresden. Retrieved April 23, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Wolfram Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1956