Kurt Kranz (1910 - 1997)

Kurt Kranz

Kurt Kranz was a German artist of the Bauhaus school, graphic artist and university professor.

Kranz studied as a lithographer, then at the Bauhaus Dessau, taking courses with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1950 he accepted a position at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and remained there until 1972. He visited America and Japan as a guest lecturer, including Harvard University in Cambridge, USA.

Kurt Kranz remained faithful to the ideas of the Bauhaus throughout his life, was able to experiment freely and boldly with photography and photomontage, used a variety of photographic techniques and created some of the most striking series of abstract images to emerge from the Bauhaus.