Dieter Gantz

Dieter Gantz (1932 -2018) was a German painter, graphic artist, and professor.

Gantz studied painting until 1957 at the Berlin University of Fine and Applied Arts, where his teachers included Kurt Robbel, Bert Heller, Arno Mohr and Toni Mau. This was followed by studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Rudolf Bednarczik until 1961.

After a freelance phase, he was appointed as a university professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1980. In 1988 he was appointed professor, and from 1991 he held a full professorship at this art college.