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Kurt Kranz

1930–1933 Bauhaus student

Portrait of Kurt Kranz, Photo: Siegfried Kühl, around 1994.
Portrait of Kurt Kranz, Photo: Siegfried Kühl, around 1994. © Nachlass Siegfried Kühl.
  • Born on 3.5.1910 in Emmerich on the Rhine, Rhineland Province (German Reich) | today Germany
  • Died on 22.8.1997 in Wedel, Deutschland
  • Birth Name Kurt Peter Wilhelm Kranz
  • Married to Ingrid Kranz

Kurt Kranz was born in 1910 in Emmerich am Rhein. From 1925 to 1930, he completed a lithographer apprenticeship in Bielefeld. At the same time, Kranz took evening courses at the local applied arts school. He came to the Bauhaus Dessau in 1930 and studied with teachers such as Josef Albers, Joost Schmidt, Walter Peterhans, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In 1933, Kurt Kranz received the Bauhaus diploma. He worked in the following years until 1938 as a graphic artist at the Studio Dorland with Herbert Bayer. In 1940, he was conscripted for military service in Norway and Finland. Starting in 1950, Kranz was the director for the foundation course at the State Art School of Hamburg and was appointed as a professor at the Hamburg’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1955. His activities as a guest lecturer took him to the USA, Canada and Japan. Following his retirement as a professor in 1968, he lived and worked in Suzette/France and Wedel near Hamburg. Kurt Kranz died in 1997.

  1. Literature:
  2. · Petra Kipphoff (1990): Das unendliche Bild, in: Die Zeit. Nr. 32, 3. September.
    · Renate Kübler-Reiser (1981): Kurt Kranz, Hamburg.
    · Philipp Oswalt et al. (2011): Kurt Kranz. Die Programmierung des Schönen, Berlin.

Kurt Kranz

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (I 36368) / (Kranz, Kurt) Kranz, Ingrid.
Group of four, black and white, Author: Kurt Kranz, 1968.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (I 36361) / (Kranz, Kurt) Kranz, Ingrid.
Kurt Kranz, 'Button eye' (Knopfauge), 1970.

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