BIOGRAPHY

   1942         Born in Poznan

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   1964-69  Studies at the Düsseldorf University of Fine Arts

 

   1969         Master student of Gerhard Hoehme 

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   1969-70  Scholarship of the British Council for Advanced Studies at Hornsey College London

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   1976         Villa Romana Prize, Florence

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   1978         Cité International des Arts Scholarship, Paris

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   1980        Lower Saxony Artist Scholarship 

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   1982         Villa Massimo Prize, Rome

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   1983         Professor at the International John Cabott College, Rome

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   1992-2011  Professor for Artistic Principles at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences

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   2001/02    Visiting Professorship in Singapore

 

 

   Michael Bette lived and worked in Berlin until he died in 2022