Gregor Schneider
The artist Gregor Schneider, born in Rheydt in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Kunstakademie Münster and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
He taught as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and since 2016 he has headed the sculpture class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
In 2001, Schneider received the "Golden Lion" for his impressive contribution to the Biennale di Venezia: He reconstructed and interlocked the interiors of his childhood home in the German Pavilion with the so-called "Dead House u r".
