Luise Kimme (1939 - 2013)

Luise Kimme

Luise Kimme was a German artist, primarily a sculptor. She was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1976 to 2002. She lectured at Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1968 to 1972, while also creating large fibreglass sculptures at a studio in London, including an 8 metres long untitled work exhibited outside the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972. She taught at Rhode Island School of Design in 1973 to 1975, and then as a visiting professor at Stanislaus State College (now California State University, Stanislaus) at Turlock, California in 1975-76. She was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1976 to 2002.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:	4 march 1939, Bremen, Germany
Date and place of death:	19 april 2013, Trinidad and Tobago
Nationality:	United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Trinidad and Tobago
Period of activity:	XX, XXI century
Specialization:	Artist, Painter, Portraitist, Sculptor
Genre:	Portrait
Art style:	Contemporary art
Technique:	Mixed media
Medium:	Fiberglass, Wood