Gunter Demnig

He is best known for his Stolperstein ("stumbling block") memorials to the victims of Nazi persecution, including Jews, homosexuals, Romani and the disabled.

The project places engraved brass stones in front of a former residence for a Holocaust victim who was deported and murdered by Nazi Germany.

[1][2] Gunter Demnig grew up in Nauen and Berlin and completed high school acquiring his abitur in 1967.

Later that year, he began studying creative education at Berlin University of the Arts with Professor Herbert Kaufmann.

In 1971, he transferred to the Kunsthochschule Kassel, resuming his study of creative education and passed the first state examination in 1974.