Michael Croissant

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Michael Croissant

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Birthplace: Landau, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Death: September 21, 2002 (74)
München, München, Oberbayern, Bavaria, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Hermann Adolf Croissant and Ursula Flora Hildegard Croissant
Husband of Christa Croissant
Brother of Private and Doris Croissant

Occupation: Künstler und Bildhauer
Managed by: Dan Bodenheimer (Cousin Detective)
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About Michael Croissant

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Croissant

Croissant spent his early childhood in Berlin . From 1934 to 1938 he lived in Vienna , then again in Landau, where he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason in 1942. He then attended the School of German Crafts in Kaiserslautern from 1943 to 1946. From 1946 to 1948 he took lessons at a private art school in Munich and studied from 1948 to 1953 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Toni Stadler .

In 1953 he married the artist Christa von Schnitzler . 1953 to 1966 he lived and worked freelance in Munich. From 1966 to 1988 (22 years) he was a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Since 1991 he lived and worked in Haar-Gronsdorf near Munich [1] . Croissant died on September 21, 2002 .

He was a member of the Palatinate Artists Working Group , the Palatinate Secession , the Darmstadt Secession , the New Munich Group and, from 1972, a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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Michael Croissant's Timeline

1928
May 7, 1928
Landau, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
2002
September 21, 2002
Age 74
München, München, Oberbayern, Bavaria, Germany