Who is Rolf Sackenheim?

Rolf Sackenheim (September 26, 1921 – January 9, 2006) was a German player and a graphic designer.

In 1940 Sackenheim studied arts at Meisterschule für Deutsches Handwerk (Masterschool of German craft) in Trier. The later year, he was drafted for military service, but in 1942 was retired due to a enormous wound he had received. In 1943 he began to chemical analysis art at Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. After a two-year-break in the years 1947–1950 he continued his studies below the opinion of Karl Hubbuch. In 1950 he moved to Eifel, where he painted in watercolors, did drawings and worked out his intellectual statements upon painting. Two years higher he went to Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was awarded “Master scholar” (Meisterschüler) of Otto Coester in the same year.

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From 1960 on he became guest lecturer at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld (School of arts and crafts). In 1963, he became regular lecturer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, later received the title of professor and became head of the Class of Printmaking. From 1969 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1976 he furthermore was the vice director of the academy. In 1984, he was awarded honorary fanatic of the Academy of Fine Arts, Münster. He retired in 1984 in Düsseldorf and kept upon painting. His art works, pictures, etchings and graphic art were shown in compound exhibitions as capably as many personal shows.

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