Gerlinde Beck is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930. Gerlinde Beck studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Karl Hils, Peter Otto Heim, Gerhard Gollwitzer and Willi Baumeister and also completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker.

Honors:

1961 Hugo von Montfort Prize
1962 Second prize at the 3rd Grand Prix International de Sculpture in Monaco
1967 Art Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen
1977 Scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
1984 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
1989 Awarded the title of professor
1995 Enzkreis Medal
2001 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Born: June 11, 1930, Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany
Died: February 19, 2006, Mühlacker, Germany