List of German artists
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- Tomma AbtsTomma AbtsTomma Abts is a German-born abstract painter who won the Turner Prize in 2006.-Early life:Abts was born in Kiel in Germany and currently lives and works in London, England.-Work:...
- Heinrich AldegreverHeinrich AldegreverHeinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Dürer.-Biography:...
- Albrecht AltdorferAlbrecht AltdorferAlbrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era.-Biography:Altdorfer was born in Regensburg or Altdorf around 1480....
- Kai AlthoffKai Althoff- Life and work :Kai Althoff was born in Cologne, Germany. He is a multimedia artist and a painter.He has shown work in exhibitions including the 2004 Venice Biennale, Drawing Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Chère Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear Painter at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and A...
- Markus AmmMarkus AmmMarkus Amm is an artist based in London.He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Finding Neverland at Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Alles in einer Nacht at Tanya Bonakdar in New York, The Addiction at Gagosian Gallery in Berlin and New Party at The Breeder Projects in Athens...
- Gerd AretzGerd AretzGerd Aretz was a German artist. Since 1960 until his death he designed postage stamp for the Deutsche Bundespost including the Women in German history series portraits....
- Jean ArpJean ArpJean Arp / Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper....
- Artists AnonymousArtists AnonymousArtists Anonymous are an art group based in Berlin and London. They founded 2001 during their studies at University of Arts, Berlin atthe classes of Georg Baselitz and Stan Douglas.They finished studying 2006, when Douglas was forced to leave the UdK....
- Asam brothersAsam brothersThe Asam Brothers were sculptors, workers in stucco, painters, and architects, who worked mostly together and in southern Germany...
- Cosmas Damian AsamCosmas Damian AsamCosmas Damian Asam was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta. There, he could see the fresco Ascensione di Cristo by Melozzo da Forlì in Santi Apostoli Church...
- Egid Quirin AsamEgid Quirin AsamEgid Quirin Asam was a German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque....
- Isidor AscheimIsidor AscheimIsidor Ascheim was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker-Biography:Ascheim was born in Posen , Prussia in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and served during World War I...
- Jim AvignonJim AvignonJim Avignon is a contemporary German pop artist and representatives of the art modeste, designer and musician. A respected cult figure in the art and Techno subculture in Berlin, he currently lives and works both in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and in Berlin.Jim Avignon was born Christian Reisz...
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- Johannes BaaderJohannes BaaderJohannes Baader , originally trained as an architect, was a writer and artist associated with Dada in Berlin....
- Michael BauerMichael Bauer (artist)Michael Bauer is an artist based in Cologne.Bauer has shown his paintings in many group exhibitions including “Das Kabinet” at Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens , Cologne, “Superschloss” at Stadtische Galerie , Wolfsburg and “Brotherslasher” . He represented by Marc Foxx in Los Angeles and Hotel in...
- Barthel BehamBarthel BehamBarthel Beham was a German engraver, miniaturist and painter.The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham, he was born into a family of artists in Nuremberg...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
engraverEngravingEngraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
, miniaturist and painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(1502–1540) - Wilfried BehreWilfried Behre-Life:Work in several goldsmith workshops, student of the Japanese stone sculptor Makoto Fujiwara at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover where he was examined as “Master student” in 1992. Internationally active with sculptures in Germany, India, Malaysia and Vietnam. In 1994...
- Hans BellmerHans BellmerHans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.-Biography:...
- Ella Bergmann-MichelElla Bergmann-MichelElla Bergmann-Michel was a German abstract artist. An early student of constructivist art in Germany, her contributions to modern abstract art are often forgotten in American art culture. Bergmann-Michel’s style was very specialized and unique, especially considering the restrictive time in...
- Joseph BeuysJoseph BeuysJoseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
- Bärbel BohleyBärbel BohleyBärbel Bohley was an East German opposition figure and artist. In 1983 she was expelled from the GDR artists federation and was banned from travelling abroad or exhibiting her work in East Germany. She was accused of having contacts to the West German Green Party.In 1985 she was one of the...
- Eberhard BossletEberhard BossletEberhard Bosslet is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979...
- Philip BußmannPhilip BußmannPhilip Bussmann is a German video artist working for international dance and theater productions since 1995.-Life and work:...
- Hans BurgkmairHans BurgkmairHans Burgkmair the elder was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut.Burgkmair was born in Augsburg, the son of painter Thomas Burgkmair and his son, Hans the Younger, became one too. From 1488 he was a pupil of Martin Schongauer in Colmar, who died during his two years there, before Burgkmair...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and printmaker in woodcutWoodcutWoodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...
(1473–1531) - Michael ButheMichael ButheMichael Buthe was a German artist. From 1964 to 1967 he studied art at the Werkkunstschule Kassel. Thereafter he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as master student of Joseph Beuys. From 1985 to his death 1994 he worked as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf...
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- Ludwig FahrenkrogLudwig FahrenkrogLudwig Fahrenkrog was a German writer, playwright and artist. He was born in Rendsburg, Prussia, in 1867. He started his career as an artist in his youth, and attended the Berlin Royal Art Academy before being appointed a professor in 1913. He taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bremen from...
- Lyonel FeiningerLyonel FeiningerLyonel Charles Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist.-Life and work:...
- FeuchtmayerFeuchtmayerThe Feuchtmayers were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School....
- Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the ElderJohann Michael Feuchtmayer the ElderJohann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German painter and copper engraver.He was born in Wessobrunn, into the famous Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....
- Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the YoungerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer the YoungerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....
- Franz Joseph FeuchtmayerFranz Joseph FeuchtmayerFranz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey...
- Franz Xaver FeuchtmayerFranz Xaver FeuchtmayerFranz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School.A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698, Wessobrunn, Bavaria – 1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the...
- Johann Michael FeuchtmayerJohann Michael FeuchtmayerJohann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German Baroque stucco sculptor and plasterer of the Wessobrunner School, who worked alongside Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler to create some of the most famous churches along the Upper...
- Joseph Anton FeuchtmayerJoseph Anton FeuchtmayerJoseph Anton Feuchtmayer was an important Rococo stuccoist and sculptor, active in southern Germany and Switzerland....
- Michael FeuchtmayerMichael FeuchtmayerMichael Feuchtmayer was a member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the German Wessobrunner School.He was the brother of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the...
- Karl von FischerKarl von FischerKarl [Carl] von Fischer was a German architect. His drafts had enormous influence on the architecture of classicism in South Germany....
- Ferdinand Wolfgang FlacheneckerFerdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker-Biography:Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker was born in Southern Germany in 1792. He worked as a painter and lithographer. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Later he settled in Munich....
- Elsa von Freytag-LoringhovenElsa von Freytag-LoringhovenBaroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.-Early life:Freytag-Loringhoven was born Elsa Hildegard Plötz in Swinemünde , German Empire,...
- Johnny FriedlaenderJohnny FriedlaenderJohnny Friedlaender was a leading 20th century artist, whose works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery...
- Caspar David FriedrichCaspar David FriedrichCaspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...
- David FülekiDavid FülekiDavid Füleki is a German comic artist. His comics were and are published by the publishing houses Carlsen Verlag, Tokyopop, New Ground Publishings, Delfinium Prints, the manga anthology Shounen Go! Go! and many others. Besides his occupation as a comic author Füleki studies media communication at...
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- Sigfried GiedionSigfried GiedionSigfried Giedion was a Bohemia-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture....
- Mathias GoeritzMathias GoeritzMathias Goeritz - August 4, 1990 in Mexico City) was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin...
- Henry GowaHenry GowaHenry Gowa was a German painter and stage designer.-Life:Gowa was born Hermann Gowa in Hamburg. After studying in Munich he established himself as a stage designer, and was active in Munich, Leipzig and Frankfurt...
- Carl GrossbergCarl GrossbergCarl Grossberg was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement.Grossberg was born in Elberfeld and studied architecture in Aachen and Darmstadt prior to his military service in World War I. He later studied at the Weimar Academy of Art and at the Bauhaus...
- Dieter GrossmannDieter GrossmannDieter Großmann, born 1926 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, studied art at the Academy of Arts, Berlin/Germany at Professor Tank and Professor Speidel from 1948 - 1952...
- Matthias GrünewaldMatthias GrünewaldMatthias Grünewald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was a German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.Only ten paintings—several consisting...
- Ignaz GüntherIgnaz GüntherIgnaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian rococo tradition.He was born in Altmannstein, Germany, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich under the court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750 and during his...
- Matthäus GüntherMatthäus GüntherMatthäus Günther was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era....
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- Hans HaackeHans HaackeHans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...
- Karl HagedornKarl HagedornKarl Hagedorn was a German American painter, who worked on lithographs and etchings. He is not to be confused with another artist of the same name, who was born in Berlin in 1869; settled in Manchester, England in 1905; and died in 1969....
- Hanns ScharffHanns ScharffHanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff was a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War. He has been called the "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe and possibly all of Nazi Germany; he has also been praised for his contribution in shaping U.S. interrogation techniques after the war...
- Alfred HarthAlfred HarthAlfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...
- Kati HeckKati HeckKati Heck is an artist based in Antwerp.Heck has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including Art Brussels at Galerie Annie Gentils, Bonds of Love at John Connelly Presents in New York and 59 STE Badischer Kunstpreis at Museum Baden...
- Wilhelm HeineWilhelm HeinePeter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, better known as Wilhelm Heine was a German-American artist, world traveller and writer.-Early life:...
- Amalia von HelvigAmalia von HelvigAnna Amalia von Helvig was a German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, socialite, Salonist and culture personality. She is known as an inspiration for many artists. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.- Biography :She was born to Baron Carl Christoph von Imhoff and Luise...
(1776–1831) - Augustin HirschvogelAugustin HirschvogelAugustin Hirschvogel was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings. His thirty-five small landscape etchings, made between 1545 and 1549, assured him a place in the Danube School, a circle of artists in sixteenth-century Bavaria and Austria.- Life :He began...
- Hannah HöchHannah HöchHannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.-Biography:...
- Heinrich HoerleHeinrich HoerleHeinrich Hoerle was a German constructivist artist of the New Objectivity movement.Hoerle was born in Cologne. He studied at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts but was mostly self-taught as an artist. After military service in World War I he met Franz Wilhelm Seiwert in 1919 and worked with him...
- Hans Holbein the ElderHans Holbein the ElderHans Holbein was a German painter.He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(1460–1524) - Carsten HöllerCarsten HöllerCarsten Höller is a German artist. He lives and works in Farsta, Stockholm, in Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.-Early life and education:...
- Herbert HolzingHerbert HolzingHerbert Holzing was an artist and book illustrator.Herbert Holzing has illustrated over 85 books and 120 bookcovers in his career. He especially gained fame because of his coverillustrations for Krabat by Otfried Preußler and Die Glocke vom grünen Erz. His work gained wide appreciation in the...
- Ottmar HörlOttmar HörlOttmar Hörl is a notable German artist, art professor and writer.From 1975 to 1978, he studied at the "Städelschule" in Frankfurt and from 1978 to 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf...
- Rebecca HornRebecca HornRebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...
- Karl HubbuchKarl HubbuchKarl Hubbuch was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman associated with the New Objectivity.Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe. From 1908 to 1912, he studied art at the Karlsruhe Academy, where he formed friendships with fellow students Georg Scholz and Rudolf Schlichter...
- JoKarl HuberJoKarl HuberJoseph Karl Huber, stagename JoKarl Huber was a German artist.Born in 1902 in the Wuerttembergian village of Laudenbach Joseph Karl Huber, stagename JoKarl Huber (* 13 February 1902, † 1996) was a German artist.Born in 1902 in the Wuerttembergian village of Laudenbach Joseph Karl Huber, stagename...
- Maria Innocentia HummelMaria Innocentia HummelSister Maria Innocentia Hummel, O.S.F., was a famous German Franciscan Sister and artist . She is noted for the artwork which became the very popular Hummel figurines.-Early life:...
- Otto HuppOtto HuppOtto Hupp was a German graphical artist. His main working area was heraldry, yet he also worked as a typeface designer, creating commercial symbols and metal works....
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- Johann Joachim KaendlerJohann Joachim KaendlerJohann Joachim Kändler was the most important modelleur of the Meissen porcelain manufacture.Kändler was born in Fischbach near Dresden, Germany. After apprenticing at the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, he became assistant of Johann Jakob Kirchner at Meissen porcelain, and succeeded him as...
- Wolf KahlenWolf KahlenWolf Kahlen is a German video artist who has been exhibiting since the 1960s. Since 1982 he has been a professor of intermedia art at the Technical University in Berlin.-External links:*...
- Leo KahnLeo KahnLeo Kahn was a German-Israeli painter,-Biography:Kahn was born in 1894 in Bruchsal, Germany. He served in the German army in 1914, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe between 1919-1920 under the tutelage of Albert Hueinsen. Kahn travelled to Berlin , Holland, and France in search...
- Johannes Kahrs (artist)Johannes Kahrs (artist)Johannes Kahrs is an artist based in Berlin.He completed his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1994....
- Hanns-Christian KaiserHanns-Christian Kaiser- Early life :Born in Karlsruhe he was the son of a galarist. In his youth he painted with artists such as Herbert Zangs and Professor Walter Becker in Karlsruhe and in Ammersee.-Career:...
- Georg Friedrich KerstingGeorg Friedrich KerstingGeorg Friedrich Kersting was a German painter, best known for his Biedermeier-style interior paintings and his association with fellow artist Caspar David Friedrich.- Biography :...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
of BiedermeierBiedermeierIn Central Europe, the Biedermeier era refers to the middle-class sensibilities of the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions...
-style interior paintings (1785–1847) - Ludwig KieningerLudwig KieningerLudwig Kieninger is a sculptor in wood and stone, specializing in woodcarving. He served as an apprentice for 9 years in Germany and earned the title of "Master Sculptor" in 1948....
- Martin KippenbergerMartin KippenbergerMartin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona....
- Paul KleePaul KleePaul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism...
- Leo von KlenzeLeo von KlenzeLeo von Klenze was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer...
- Erich KlossowskiErich KlossowskiErich Klossowski or Kłossowski was a German and Polish-French art historian and a painter, now primarily known as the father of the writer-philosopher- painter and actor Pierre Klossowski and the artist Balthus...
- August KlotzAugust KlotzAugust Klotz was a German schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill....
- Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
- Gerhard von KügelgenGerhard von KügelgenFranz Gerhard von Kügelgen was a German painter, noted for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Academies of Arts. His twin brother, Karl von Kügelgen, was also a painter of note.Gerhard von Kügelgen...
- GermanGermansThe Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
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s and history paintingHistory paintingHistory painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...
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- Heinrich LeutemannHeinrich LeutemannGottlob Heinrich Leutemann was a German artist and book illustrator. He was born in Leipzig and studied there.He produced lithographs for instructional posters....
- Lore LorentzLore LorentzLore Lorentz was a German cabaret artist/standup comedian.She was born in Mährisch-Ostrau in Austria-Hungary , as Lore Schirner. She studied history, German literature and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna...
- Rainer Maria LatzkeRainer Maria LatzkeRainer Maria Latzke is a German artist working in the field of trompe l'oeil and mural painting. He teaches at the Utah State University and is Founder of the Institute of Frescography in Logan, Utah. He also is Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art of Fudan University and...
- Elfriede Lohse-WächtlerElfriede Lohse-WächtlerElfriede Lohse Wächtler was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was killed in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany...
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- August MackeAugust MackeAugust Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter . He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which...
- Alfred MahlauAlfred MahlauAlfred Mahlau German painter, illustrator and teacher, born in Berlin and died in Hamburg. He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass window, Dance of Death, in the Lübeck Marienkirche Alfred Mahlau (January 21, 1894 – January 22, 1967) German...
- Eduard MagnusEduard MagnusEduard Magnus was a German painter.Magnus was born in Berlin, and studied simultaneously at the Berlin Academy of Art, Bauakademie, and University of Berlin. He later traveled to Paris and Italy, returning to Germany in 1829. He went to Italy again in 1831, and traveled through Paris and England...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(1799–1872) - Franz MarcFranz MarcFranz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement...
- Master of the HousebookMaster of the HousebookMaster of the Housebook and Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet are two names used for an engraver and painter working in South Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century. He is apparently the first artist to use drypoint, a form of engraving, for all of his prints...
- Christoph MeckelChristoph MeckelChristoph Meckel is a German author and graphic artist.- Life :Christoph Meckel spent his youth in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München.Since 1956 he has...
- Johann Peter MelchiorJohann Peter MelchiorJohann Peter Melchior was a German porcelain modeller.Melchior was born in Lintorf. He was interested in art from an early age and was apprenticed to a sculptor in Düsseldorf. He made a name for him self in the porcelain trade and was named Modellmeister at the acclaimed Höchst porcelain factory...
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- Dietmar MoewsDietmar MoewsDietmar Moews is a German artist, best known as a painter of the German Pop Art and Postmodern movements. He is also a scholar, philosopher, government-approved master harbour builder and harbour engineer, sociologist, musician, and publisher.- Early years :Moews was born in Lauenau, Lower...
- Manfred MohrManfred MohrManfred Mohr is a digital art pioneer. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981.-Life & career:...
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- Georg MühlbergGeorg MühlbergGeorg Mühlberg was a German Painter....
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- Neo RauchNeo RauchNeo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...
- Sandra RauchSandra RauchSandra Rauch is a German artist.Sandra Rauch began to study communication design in 1991 in and she changed in 1995 to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts to study painting and graphic techniques. From 1993 to 1998, she travelled to Italy and France. In 1998, she became a master-class pupil with...
- Alfred RethelAlfred RethelAlfred Rethel was a German history painter.-Early life and education:Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816. He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf...
- Gerhard RichterGerhard RichterGerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
- Hans Richter (artist)Hans Richter (artist)Hans Richter was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.-Germany:...
- Tilman RiemenschneiderTilman RiemenschneiderTilman Riemenschneider was a German sculptor and woodcarver active in Würzburg from 1483. He was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of the transition period between late Gothic and Renaissance, a master in stone and limewood.- Biography :Tilman Riemenschneider was born between 1459...
- Dieter RothDieter RothDieter Roth was an Icelandic artist of Swiss German origin best known for his artist's books and for his sculptures and pictures made with rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot....
- Christoph RuckhaberleChristoph RuckhäberleChristoph Ruckhäberle is an artist based in Leipzig. Ruckhäberle studied at the California Institute of the Arts from 1991-1992, and received his BFA in painting – in 1995 – and his MFA – in 2002 - from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.His work has been shown in many exhibitions...
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- August SanderAugust SanderAugust Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929...
- portraitist photographer - Silke SchatzSilke SchatzSilke Schatz is an artist based in Cologne.Schatz attended Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 1987–95....
- Adolf SchreyerAdolf SchreyerAdolf Schreyer was a German painter.-Biography:He studied art first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(1828–1899) - Thomas SchütteThomas SchütteThomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Work:In the early 1980s Schütte began a series of small sculptural works...
- Kurt SchwittersKurt SchwittersKurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
- Franz Wilhelm SeiwertFranz Wilhelm SeiwertFranz Wilhelm Seiwert Franz Wilhelm Seiwert Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (March 9, 1894 – July 3, 1933 was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style.right|thumb|Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait) by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, 1928, oil on canvas, 79 x 50 cm, Von der Heydt-Museum, [[Wuppertal]]...
- Gert SellheimGert SellheimGert Sellheim was a German-Australian artist. He won the Sulman Prize for his work in 1939.Sellheim was born in Estonia to German parents and studied architecture at universities in Germany before migrating to Western Australia in 1926. He established an architecture and design practice in...
- Florian SlotawaFlorian SlotawaFlorian Slotawa is a German conceptual artist. Rather than creating new objects from scratch, Florian Slotawa rearranges and recontextualizes what already exists.-Solo exhibitions :* * 2008 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf...
- Conrad von SoestConrad von SoestConrad von Soest, also Konrad in modern texts, or in Middle High German Conrad van Sost or "von Soyst", Conrad von Soest, also Konrad in modern texts, or in Middle High German Conrad van Sost or "von Soyst", Conrad von Soest, also Konrad in modern texts, or in Middle High German Conrad van Sost...
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
GothicGothic artGothic art was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(1370–1422) - Karin Ulrike SoikaKarin Ulrike SoikaKarin Ulrike Soika is a German artist.Soika studied Art at the Art Students League of New York. Her focus lies on Informal Abstract Expressionism, her body of work consists of paintings, drawings and texts on art theory. Numerous exhibitions worldwide...
- Virgil SolisVirgil SolisVirgil Solis or Virgilius Solis , a member of a prolific family of artists, was a German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut who worked in Nuremberg. His prints were sold separately or formed the illustrations of books; many prints signed by him are probably by assistants...
- Michael SowaMichael SowaMichael Sowa is a German artist known mainly for his paintings, which are variously whimsical, surreal, or stunning. His paintings often feature animals and are titled in English and German...
- Franz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph Spiegler was a German Baroque painter. He is best known for his frescoes, which decorate many of the churches and monasteries along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The frescoes in the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered his masterpiece.Spiegler was born the Free Imperial City of Wangen...
- Bodo SperlingBodo SperlingBodo Sperling is a German artist, painter and inventor.-Life:Bodo Sperling grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Berlin....
- Birgit StauchBirgit StauchBirgit Stauch is a contemporary German sculptor who works in bronzes, sculptures, sketches and portraits.-Life:...
- Veit StossVeit StossVeit Stoss was a leading Bavarian sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery; it has been called "late Gothic Baroque"...
- Johann Baptist StraubJohann Baptist StraubJohann Baptist Straub was a German Rococo sculptor.-Biography:Straub was born in Wiesensteig, into a family of sculptors. His father Johann George Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob, Joseph, and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. J. B...
- Gunta StölzlGunta StölzlGunta Stölzl was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop. As the Bauhaus’s only female master she created enormous change within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial...
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- Carl Wagner (painter)Carl Wagner (painter)Carl Wagner was a German painter and representatives of the Romantic landscape painting.- Life and work :...
- Horst WalterHorst WalterHorst Walter is a contemporary German artist.- Life :Born in Berlin during the Nazi regime, he grew up in the western part of the divided Berlin. He produces drawings and modern sculptures. In divided Berlin he potested against the Berlin Wall...
GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, Berlin WallBerlin WallThe Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
was his main theme - Karl Josef WeinmairKarl Josef WeinmairKarl Josef Weinmair , also known as Karl Weinmair, was an early twentieth century German artist. His lithographs during the period of the Weimar Republic expresses the resignation and despair of the poverty and unemployment of the time. Later cartoon style pen and ink work drawn secretly during...
- Victor WeiszVictor WeiszVictor Weisz was a German-British political cartoonist, drawing under the name of Vicky.- Biography :...
- Ralf WinklerRalf WinklerRalf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.He was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and...
- Adolf WisselAdolf WisselAdolf Wissel was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism.Wissel, who was born in Velber, was a painter in the genre of Nazi Folk Art, the idea being that these paintings should show the simple, natural life of a farming family. The phrase 'union with the soil' best...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, official artist of NazismNazismNazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
(1894–1973) - Herma Auguste WittstockHerma Auguste WittstockHerma Auguste Wittstock is a performance artist. She lives in Berlin.- Vita :Herma Auguste Wittstock studied Fine Arts at Braunschweig University of Art from 1999 bis 2004 with professors Mara Mattuschka, performance artist Marina Abramović and film maker Birgit Hein...
- Henry Otto WixHenry Otto WixHenry Otto Wix , also known as Otto Wix, was a German-born landscape and portrait painter who emigrated to the United States in the late 1890s. He studied in New York, but visited Hawaii in 1907 and 1908-9. About 1910, he moved to San Francisco, but visited Hawaii again in 1912. He also made...
(1866–1922), painter - Gert Heinrich WollheimGert Heinrich WollheimGert Heinrich Wollheim was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity, and later an expressionist who worked in America after 1947.-Life and work:...