Christa Croissant

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Christa von Schnitzler, born in Cologne in 1922, lived alternately in France, Germany and England between 1928 and 1939, and then in Frankfurt am Main from 1941 to 1947. She was accepted into Toni Stadler's sculpture class at the Städelschule and followed Stadler to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1947 , where she completed her studies in sculpture in 1952. Von Schnitzler had her first solo exhibition in 1958 at the Kunstverein Cologne. In 1965 she received the Burda Prize, became a member of the German Association of Artists [2] and the New Group in Munich . The following year she returned along with her husband, the sculptor Michael Croissant, back to Frankfurt am Main. (Croissant had accepted a professorship at the Städelschule .) In 1984, von Schnitzler met the artist Gisela Nietmann, with whom she then worked in a joint studio in Frankfurt am Main.