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Fassbender, Joseph
(b Cologne, 14 April 1903; d 1974). German painter. He studied from 1926 to 1928 at the Werkschule in Cologne with the German painter Richard Seewald (b 1889). As early as 1929 he received the Villa-Romana prize from the Deutschen Künstlerbundes, which gave him a grant to study for a year in Florence. At this stage in his career, while working as a typographer, he concentrated on portraits, figurative compositions, landscapes and still-lifes; most of his early work is lost. During World War II he served as a cartographer in the Wehrmacht, and in 1946 he established his studio in Bornheim, near Bonn, where he was one of the founders of the so-called Alfterer Donnerstagsgesellschaft, an association of artists and intellectuals who wanted to create a new cultural identity following the Nazi era. He was a lecturer at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg (1953–4) and at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld (1955–8), and from 1958 to 1968 he was professor of painting at the Künstakademie in Düsseldorf. He was a member of the Neuen Rheinischen Sezession, the Zen 49 group, the Deutschen Künstlerbundes and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
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