Franz Hitzler – born 1946 in Thalmassing near Regensburg | lives and works in Munich; 1962-64 Augsburg School of Art under Heinz Butz | 1967-72 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Franz Nagel | 1981 State Sponsorship Award for Visual Arts | since 1997 full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts | solo exhibitions at, among others, the Lenbachhaus and the Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst Munich, the Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, the Visual Art Museum New York