Education
Karl Caspar studied at the Art Academy in Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Karl Caspar studied at the Art Academy in Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
In 1919 he became the chairman of the association. A high point of Caspar"s work was the Passion Altar of 1916/1917, housed in the crypt of the Frauenkirche. From 1922 to 1937 Caspar was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
That same year (some sources say the year was 1944, after his Munich house was destroyed in a bombing raid), due to Nazi hostility, he settled with his family in Brannenburg, where he is buried.
As early as 1946, Caspar was reappointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. That same year, he participated in the Venice Biennale.
In 1950 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of. His students include Joseph Loher and Gretel Loher-Schmeck, who belong to the Lost Generation, and Richard Stumm and Peter Paul Etz.
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In 1904 Caspar became a member of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund (Stuttgart Artists" Association), and in 1906 he joined the Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Artists" Association). In 1913, he was a founding member of the artists" association Münchener Neue Secession, to which painters like Alexej von Jawlensky, Adolf Erbslöh, Wladimir von Bechtejeff, Paul Klee, and Alexander Kanoldt also belonged. In 1948 he was one of the founding members of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1955, a year before his death, he became a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.