Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar

Saar College of Fine Arts

Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar
Other name	University of Art and Design Saarbrücken
Type	Public university
Established	1989; 36 years ago (1989)[1]
President	Gabriele Langendorf[2]
Administrative staff	50 (full professors/teacher for special tasks)
Students	500
Location	Saarbrücken , Germany 49°13′57″N 6°59′6″E
Campus	Urban
Website	www.hbksaar.de/startseite

HBKsaar campus

The Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar or HBKsaar, (English: Saar College of Fine Arts) is an art and design university in the German State of Saarland.

The degree course offers a choice of different topics: Fine arts, communication design, media art & design and product design.[3] There are also various master study programmes[4] and teacher training programmes in art education.[5]

Noted alumni

See also: Category:Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar alumni

• Arvid Boecker (born 1964), color field painter
• Wolfgang Kermer (born 1935), art historian and former rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, studied in 1956/57 with Peter Raacke, Oskar Holweck and Otto Steinert
• Ingrid Mwangi (born 1975) also known as "Mwangi Hutter", multidisciplinary artist, known for performance art[6]
• Andrea Neumann (1969–2020) painter[7]
• Bahzad Sulaiman (born 1991) Kurdish performance maker and visual artist
• Thomas Wagner (born 1977) VR and video game designer, entrepreneur

Noted faculty

See also: Category:Academic staff of the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar

• Bodo Baumgarten, painter[7]
• Andreas Brandolini [de], architect and designer[8]
• Jo Enzweiler [de], painter[7][9]
• Christina Kubisch, composer, sound artist, performance artist[10]
• Frans Masereel, Flemish painter and graphic artist, taught at HBK from 1949 to 1949.
• Cho Sung-hyung, film maker
• Georg Winter, visual artist[11]
• Tamás Waliczky, multidisciplinary media artist, computer animator, cartoonist, illustrator.[12]
• Barbara Yelin (born 1977), cartoonist

References

1. HBK Saar in Saarbrücken.de
2. Langendorf wird Sprecherin der Rektoren-Konferenz in Saarbrücker Zeitung
3. HBK Saar in studieren.de
4. "Master study programmes". hbksaar.de.
5. "Teacher training in art education". hbksaar.de.
6. Mwangi, Ingrid. "Artist Profiles: Ingrid Mwangi". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
7. Gündüz, Bülent (2020-08-21). "Ein Nachruf auf Andrea Neumann: Malerei der Offenheit und Andeutung. Die Künstlerin Andrea Neumann ist im Alter von nur 51 Jahren gestorben. Ein Nachruf – und ein Blick auf ihre einzigartige Arbeit" [An obituary for Andrea Neumann: Painting of openness and suggestion. The artist Andrea Neumann died at the age of only 51. An obituary - and a look at their unique work.]. Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-09.
8. Andreas Brandolini in hbksaar.de
9. Engel, Andreas (2021-03-10). "Jo Enzweiler: Kreissegmente auf dem Weg ins Arbeitsamt". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-09.
10. Christina Kubisch in hbksaar.de
11. Personen in hbksaar.de
12. Tamás Waliczky in hbksaar.de

External links

• Official website