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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615) * Aatifi (born 1965) * Karl Abt (1899–1985) *

Tomma Abts Tomma Abts (born 26 December 1967) is a German-born visual artist known for her abstract oil paintings. Abts won the Turner Prize in 2006.

(born 1967) *

Andreas Achenbach Andreas Achenbach (29 September 1815, Kassel – 1 April 1910, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School. His brother, Oswald, was also a ...

(1815–1910) *

Oswald Achenbach Oswald Achenbach (; 2 February 18271 February 1905) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Thr ...

(1827–1905) *

Herbert Achternbusch Herbert Achternbusch ( Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel ''Die Alexanderschlacht'', before turning to low-budget films. He h ...

(1938–2022) *

Franz Ackermann Franz Ackermann (born 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction. Life He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich from 1984 to 1988 and the Ho ...

(born 1963) *

Johann Adam Ackermann Johann Adam Ackermann (November 3, 1780 – March 27, 1853) was a German landscape painter of the early 19th century. He was born in Mainz and moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1804. His best-known works are his winter landscapes and watercolou ...

(1780–1853) * Max Ackermann (1887–1975) * Otto Ackermann (1872–1953) *

Albrecht Adam Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a Bavarian painter, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1812 Russian campaign. He was attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's Grande Armée. Thr ...

(1786–1862) * Benno Adam (1812–1892) *

Emil Adam Emil Franz Adam (20 May 1843, in Munich – 19 January 1924, in Munich) was a German equestrian painter. Life Adam was the son of animal painter Benno Adam. He initially intended to devote himself to science, but, carried away by the example ...

(1843–1924) *

Eugen Adam Eugen Adam (22 January 1817, in Munich – 6 June 1880) was a German painter. He specialised on animal, genre, landscape and battle paintings. He had his atelier in Munich, and lived in Milan during the years 1849–1858. In 1859 he became war r ...

(1817–1880) *

Franz Adam Franz Adam (May 4, 1815 – September 30, 1886) was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy. Life Adam was born in Milan, Italy, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior ...

(1815–1886) *

Heinrich Adam Heinrich Adam (1787 – 15 February 1862) was a German painter. Life Heinrich Adam, a brother of Albrecht Adam, was born in Nördlingen in 1787. He studied painting in Augsburg and Munich, and distinguished himself as a painter of landscapes ...

(1787–1862) * Luitpold Adam (1888–1950) *

Jankel Adler Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler; 26 July 1895 – 25 April 1949) was a Polish Jewish painter and printmaker. Biography Jankiel Jakub Adler was born as the seventh of ten children in Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź. In 1912 he began training ...

(1895–1949) *

Salomon Adler Salomon Adler (before 3 March 1630 – 1709 in Milan) was a German painter of the Baroque period, active in Milan and Bergamo as a portrait painter. He was the mentor of Fra' Galgario. Born in Danzig ( Gdańsk), died in Milan. Biograph ...

(1630–1709) *

Christoph Ludwig Agricola Christoph Ludwig Agricola (5 November 1665 – 8 August 1724) was a German landscape painter and etcher. He was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). Life and career Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born on 5 November 1665 at Regensburg in Germ ...

(1667–1719) *

Karl Agricola Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola (18 October 1779 – 15 May 1852) was a German artist, noted for his portrait miniatures. Life and works Agricola was born at Bad Säckingen, Margraviate of Baden, in 1779. After a preliminary course of instruction i ...

(1779–1852) *

August Ahlborn August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (October 11, 1796 – August 24, 1857) was a German landscape painter. Life Ahlborn was born in Hanover, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke. He entered th ...

(1796–1857) *

Erwin Aichele Erwin Aichele (5 May 1887 – 29 June 1974) was a German painter and animal artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany. His life and work was the subject of a 1988 monograph, ''Der Tiermaler Erwin Aichele'' by Hans Schöner. Early ye ...

(1887–1974) *

Wolfram Aichele Wolfram Aïchele (29 April 1924 – 9 June 2016) was an artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany. His work has been exhibited in America, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. His paintings have been ...

(1924–2016) *

Max Ainmiller Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller (14 February 1807 – 9 December 1870) was a German artist and glass painter. Under the tutorage of Friedrich von Gärtner, director of the royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Ainmiller studied glass painting ...

(1807–1870) *

Josef Albers Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...

(1888–1976) *

Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer. Life Aldenrath was a pupil of Johann Jakob Tischbein and of Friedrich Carl Gröger, with whom he develo ...

(1775–1844) * William Alexander (1915–1997) *

Christian Wilhelm Allers Christian Wilhelm Allers (6 August 1857 – 19 October 1915) was a German painter and printmaker. Biography Allers, the son of a merchant, was born in Hamburg. He first worked as a lithographer, and in 1877 he moved to Karlsruhe where he ...

(1857–1915) * Jakob Alt (1789–1872) * Theodor Alt (1846–1937) *

Albrecht Altdorfer Albrecht Altdorfer (12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube S ...

(c 1480–1538) *

Kai Althoff Kai Althoff (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German visual artist and musician. Life and work Kai Althoff was born in Cologne, Germany, in February 1966. He is a multimedia artist and a painter. Borrowing from moments of history, religious iconogra ...

(born 1966) * Karl Altmann (1802–1861) *

Hans am Ende Hans am Ende (31 December 1864, Trier – 9 July 1918, Stettin) was a German Impressionism, Impressionist painter. In 1889 he co-founded the artists' colony in Worpswede with Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn, and Heinrich Vogeler. In 1895 this g ...

(1864–1918) *

Christoph Amberger Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562) was a painter of Augsburg in the 16th century, a disciple of Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures. Life His father was a stonemason and his grandfather a wood ...

(1505–1562) * Heinrich Amersdorffer (1905–1986) *

Tobias Andreae Tobias Andreae, who was born at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1823, studied under J. Becker, and then went to Munich, where he made the acquaintance of Carl Rahl and Bonaventura Genelli. In 1853 he visited Italy, and painted landscapes, into which he o ...

(1823–1873) *

Peter Angermann Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the ...

(born 1945) *

Hermann Anschütz Hermann Anschütz (12 October 1802 – 30 August 1880) was a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Anschütz was born in Koblenz. His father J ...

(1802–1880) *

Horst Antes Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor. After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (today known as the Sta ...

(born 1936) *

Karl von Appen Karl von Appen (12 May 1900, Düsseldorf - 22 August 1981, Berlin) was a German stage designer and member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists. Theatre * 1954: ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' by Bertolt Brecht; directed by Brecht at ...

(1900–1981) *

Joseph Ignaz Appiani Joseph Ignaz Appiani (October 16, 1706 – August 19, 1785) was a South Germany, South-German Painting, painter of late the Baroque. He was the son of the plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio and Maria Sophia from Fürstenfeldbruc ...

(1706–1785) *

Clara Arnheim Clara Arnheim (24 April 1865 – 28 August 1942) was a German painter of Jewish ancestry; best known for her depictions of life among the fishermen on the Baltic coast. Her younger brother, Fritz Arnheim, was a noted historian. Biography She ...

(1865–1942) * Johann Samuel Arnhold (1766–1828) *

Ferdinand von Arnim Heinrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam. Life Arnim was born in Trep ...

(1814–1866) * Heinrich Gotthold Arnold (1785–1854) *

Ulrike Arnold Ulrike Arnold (born 1950 in Düsseldorf) is a German artist. Biography Ulrike Arnold studied music and art between 1968 and 1971, afterwards she worked as a teacher. From 1979 until 1986 she studied fine arts at the Düsseldorf academy in Pr ...

(born 1950) *

Carl Arp Carl Arp (3 January 1867 – 6 January 1913) was a German landscape painter. He is best known as a founding member of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Kunstgenossenschaft and representative of the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (Grossherzogl ...

(1867–1913) * Hans Arp (1886–1966) * Otto Arpke (1886–1943) *

Isidor Ascheim Isidor Ascheim ( he, איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker. Biography Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and served dur ...

(1891–1968) * Hans Aschenborn (1888–1931) *

Fritz Ascher Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential q ...

(1893–1970) *

Louis Asher Louis Asher, originally Julius Ludwig Asher, (1804–1878) was a German artist. Life Asher was born at Hamburg on 26 June 1804. He studied there under Gerdt Hardorf and Leo Lehmann, and in 1821 went for further instruction to Dresden, and fr ...

(1804–1878) *

Frank Auerbach Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon ...

(born 1931)

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* Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927) *

Elvira Bach Elvira Bach (born 22 June 1951) is a postmodernist German painter known for her colourful images of women.Hahn, Werner (23 September 2011)"Gegenwarts-Kunst belanglos - NIEDERGANG/Misere: Werke von ELVIRA BACH (postmoderne „Junge Wilde“) im Ob ...

(born 1951) *

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

(1748–1778) *

Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach (Potsdam May, 1756 - Breslau 8 April 1829 (according to some sources in 1826)) was a German painter. Biography As his father was a merchant and an elder (''Landesältester'') of the Brandenburg Jewry (de), Bach was e ...

(1756–1829) *

Carola Baer-von Mathes Carola Baer-von Mathes (1857–1940) was a German landscape painter. Biography Baer-von Mathes was born on 26 September 1857 in Ried im Innkreis, Austrian Empire. She was married to fellow painter . She exhibited her work at the Woman's Buildin ...

(1857–1940) * Emanuel Bachrach-Barée (1863–1943) * Johann Daniel Bager (1734–1815) *

Johann Karl Bähr Johann Karl Bähr (1801–1869) was a German painter and writer. Life Bähr was born in Riga on 18 August 1801. He studied under Matthaei in Dresden and completed his art education with a visit to Italy in 1827–29. He married in Dresden, then ...

(1801–1869) *

Theodor Baierl Theodor Baierl (8 November 1881, Munich – 1932, Munich) was a German painter and fresco artist. Life and work He came from a humble background, but was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied with Martin von Feuerst ...

(1881–1932) *

Hans Baldung Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered th ...

(c. 1484–1545) *

Jan Balet Jan Balet (20 July 1913 in Bremen – 31 January 2009 in Estavayer le Lac, Switzerland), was a German/US-American painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Affected by the style naive art he worked particularly as a graphic artist and a ...

(1913–2009) *

Karl Ballenberger Karl Ballenberger (1801–1860) was a 19th-century German painter who worked in an archaic, medievalising style. Life Ballenberger was born at Ansbach on 24 July 1801, the son of a carpenter. He attended a drawing school and worked as decorator ...

(1801–1860) *

Hans Baluschek Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid fra ...

(1870–1935) * Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873) *

Ernst von Bandel Joseph Ernst von Bandel (17 May 1800, Ansbach – 25 September 1876, Neudegg, near Donauwörth) was a German architect, sculptor and painter. He is best known for his 38 years of work on the monumental ''Hermannsdenkmal'' near Detmold, honoring A ...

(1800–1876) * Caroline Bardua (1781–1864) *

Eduard Bargheer Eduard Bargheer (25 December 1901 – 1 July 1979) was a German painter and printmaker. His early oeuvre had a close affinity to Expressionism. Life and work Eduard Bargheer was born in Finkenwerder, Hamburg as son of Karl Bargheer, a prim ...

(1901–1979) *

Hans von Bartels Hans von Bartels (25 December 1856 – 5 October 1913) was a German painter. Life He was born in Hamburg, the son of Dr N. F. F. von Bartels, a Russian government official. He studied first under the marine painter R. Hardorff in Hamburg, then ...

(1856–1913) *

Emil Bartoschek Emil Bartoschek (30 July 1899 in Czuchow, Silesia – 26 February 1969 in Waldbrunn, Hesse, Germany) was a German painter and Bauhaus-artist. Life Bartoschek was born in Czuchow, which became part of Poland in 1922. He began to learn and wor ...

(1899–1969) * Georg Baselitz (born 1938) *

Emil Bauch Emil Bauch (1823 in Hamburg, Germany – after 1874 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a German painter, lithographer and teacher who came to reside in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He painted panoramic city scenes and portraits, as well as some view ...

(1823–c. 1874) *

Jeanna Bauck Jeanna Bauck (19 August 1840 – 27 May 1926) was a Swedish-German painter known for her landscape and portrait paintings, and her career as an educator, as well as her friendships with Bertha Wegmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Early life Jea ...

(1840–1926) * Michael Bauer (born 1973) * Rudolf Bauer (1889–1953) * Gustav Bauernfeind (1848–1904) * Paul Baum (1859–1932) *

Willi Baumeister Willi Baumeister (22 January 1889 – 31 August 1955) was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Born in ...

(1889–1955) *

Karin Baumeister-Rehm Karin Baumeister-Rehm (born 1971 in Bavaria, West Germany) is a German born artist. Her career spans many years, starting as an abstract painter, and developing into a major creative force. Today she is well known for painted flowers and panel c ...

(born 1971) * Tilo Baumgartel (born 1972) *

Armin Baumgarten Armin Baumgarten (born 25 September 1967 in Wolfsburg) is a German painter and sculptor. Life Armin Baumgarten spent his childhood in Lower Saxony and dealt early with drawing and painting, supported by his art teacher Wilfried Wöhler also wit ...

(born 1967) *

Bodo Baumgarten Bodo Baumgarten (born 25 November 1940) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and educator. He is a former professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBK) in Saarland. Biography Bodo Baumgarten was born on 25 November 1940 in ...

(born 1940) *

Johann Wilhelm Baur Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer ( Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Biography Accordi ...

(1607–1640) *

August von Bayer August von Bayer (1803-1875) was a German painter of architectural subjects Life Bayer was born in May 1803 into a patrician Catholic family in Rorschach. He studied architecture under Weinbrenner, at Karlsruhe. In the mid-1820s he went to Mun ...

(1803–1875) *

Thommie Bayer Thommie Bayer (Thomas Bayer-Heer, born 22 April 1953) is a German writer, musician and painter. Bayer was born in Esslingen am Neckar, near Stuttgart (where he attended school). From 1972 to 1978, he studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Ar ...

(born 1953) *

Alf Bayrle Alf Bayrle (15 December 1900 – 11 September 1982), also known as Alf Singer-Bayrle, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor. Life Bayrle was born in Biberach an der Riss. After his military service and participation in the First Worl ...

(1900–1982) * Fritz Beblo (1872–1947) * August Becker (1821–1887) *

Ferdinand Becker Joseph Ferdinand Becker (1846–1877) was a German painter. Life He was born at Gonsenheim on 2 July 1846, the son of an innkeeper. Becker's father was initially opposed to him following an artistic career, but was eventually persuaded otherwi ...

(1846–1877) * Hermann Heinrich Becker (1817–1885) *

Jakob Becker Jakob Becker (15 March 1810 – 22 December 1872) was a German artist noted mainly for his genre paintings of peasants. Biography He was born in Dittelsheim at Worms, and began his studies with Franz Nikolaus Jung in Worms. When he was 17 yea ...

(1810–1872) * Ludwig Hugo Becker (1834–1868) *

Philipp Jakob Becker Philipp Jakob Becker (born 1763) was a German painter born at Pforzheim. At seventeen years of age he went to Rome, where he studied and formed his style under Anton Raphael Mengs, Raphael Mengs and Anton von Maron, Maron. In 1785 he returned to ...

(1763–1829) *

Max Beckmann Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s ...

(1884–1950) * Karl Becker (1820–1900) * Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) *

René Beeh René Beeh (, January 1886 − 23 January 1922) was a German draughtsman and painter from Alsace. He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries and called "the coming genius" (''das kommende Genie'') by art historian Wilhelm Hausenstein, but ...

(1886−1922) *

Josef Konstantin Beer Josef Konstantin Beer (11 March 1862 – 27 February 1933) was a German Bohemian painter, restorer and art collector. Biography Beer was born on 11 March 1862 in Most, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He left his home city in 1879 and went to Vienna ...

(1862–1933) *

Adalbert Begas Adalbert Franz Eugen Begas (8 March 1836, Berlin – 21 January 1888, Nervi) was a German painter. Life He was the third son of painter Carl Joseph Begas. Because of his drawing skills, his father encouraged him to become an engraver and sent hi ...

(1836–1888) * Carl Joseph Begas (1794–1854) *

Luise Begas-Parmentier Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920) was an Austrian-German landscape and architecture painter and Salonière. Life and work Begas-Parmentier née Parmentier was born on 15 April 1843 in Vienna, Austria. Following the example of her siste ...

(1843–1920) *

Oskar Begas Oskar Begas (31 July 1828 in Berlin – 10 November 1883 in Berlin) was a German portrait and history painter. Life and career He took his first lessons from his father, the well-known painter Carl Joseph Begas, and began by doing portra ...

(1828–1883) *

Akbar Behkalam Akbar Behkalam ( fa, اکبر بهکلام, born 16 September 1944) is an Iranian-born German painter and sculptor. Biography Akbar Behkalam was born in Tabriz, Iran on 16 September 1944, the capital of the Iranian province East Azerbaijan. F ...

(born 1944) * Franz Joachim Beich (1666–1748) * Johannes Beilharz (born 1956) *

Gisela Beker Gisela Beker (born 9 October 1932 in Free City of Danzig) was an artist and painter. She had three sons; Erol, Brian, and Gary and a granddaughter, Molly. Queen Fabiola of Belgium promoted the first Visual International Art Exhibition of 122 art ...

(born 1932) *

Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) 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 B ...

(1920–1975) *

Eduard Bendemann Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann (3 December 1811, Berlin – 27 December 1889, Düsseldorf) was a German-Jewish painter. Biography Bendemann was born in Berlin. His father, Anton Heinrich Bendemann, was a Jewish banker. His mother, Fanny El ...

(1811–1889) *

Amalie Bensinger Amalie Bensinger (28 March 1809 – 16 November 1889) was a German painter associated with the Nazarene movement. Biography She was born in Bruchsal to an old merchant family from Mannheim that was originally Jewish and had been converted. Her ...

(1809–1889) *

William Berczy William von Moll Berczy (December 10, 1744 – February 5, 1813) was a German-born Upper Canada pioneer and painter. He is considered one of the co-founders of the Town of York, Upper Canada, now Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Biography Berczy was ...

(1744–1813) *

Charlotte Berend-Corinth Charlotte Berend-Corinth (25 May 1880 – 10 January 1967) was a female Germany, German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession. She was married to German painter Lovis Corinth. Life Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Royal School of ...

(1880–1967) * Josefa Berens-Totenohl (1891–1969) *

Rudolf Bergander Rudolf Bergander (22 May 1909, Meißen — 10 April 1970, Dresden) was a German painter and principal of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1952 to 1958 and 1964–65. He was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists. Life B ...

(1909–1970) * Claus Bergen (1885–1964) * Georg Bergmann (1821–1870) *

Johann Martin Bernatz Johann Martin Bernatz (22 March 1802 – 19 December 1878), was a German landscape artist. Born in Speyer and trained in Vienna, Austria, he spent much of his life in Munich. He accompanied an expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1836, and a ...

(1802–1878) *

Meister Bertram Master Bertram (c.1345–c.1415), also known as Meister Bertram and Master of Minden, was a German International Gothic painter primarily of religious art. Life Bertram was born in Minden. He is first recorded in Hamburg in 1367, and li ...

(c. 1345–c. 1415) *

Johann Wilhelm Beyer Johann Wilhelm Beyer (27 December 1725 in Gotha, † 23 March 1796 in Hietzing), a German sculptor, porcelain artist, painter and garden designer. Beyer has the largest share in the design of the gardens and statues of Schönbrunn Palace, which is ...

(1725–1796) * Robert Beyschlag (1838-1903) *

Hanna Bieber-Böhm Hanna Bieber-Böhm (6 February 1851 – 15 April 1910) was a German feminist and pioneer of social work. She established an organization to assist young women seeking work in Berlin and help protect them from becoming prostitutes, and founded a rec ...

(1851–1910) *

Adolf Bierbrauer Adolf Bierbrauer (26 July 1915 – 2 September 2012) was a German conceptual artist, painter and sculptor. He is known for his "hypnosis paintings" and " somnambulistic paintings" as well as for his sculptures. Life Adolf Bierbrauer grew u ...

(1915–2012) * Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–1892) *

Peter Binoit Peter Binoit (''c․''1590 – ⁠14 May 1632) was a German still life painter active during the early Baroque era at the beginning of the 17th century, who worked in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , ...

(c. 1590–1632) *

Norbert Bisky Norbert Bisky (born 1970) is a German artist based in Berlin. He is one of the most important representatives of a new figurative painting in the 21st century. Life Norbert Bisky was born in Leipzig and grew up in the former German Democrati ...

(born 1970) *

Carl Blechen Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798, Cottbus – 23 July 1840, Berlin) was a German (his mother was a Sorb) landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideal ...

(1798–1840) *

Georg Bleibtreu Georg Bleibtreu (27 March 1828 – 16 October 1892) was a German painter of military and historical scenes. Biography Born in Xanten on 27 March 1828, Bleibtreu was a painter, lithographer, designer and 'graveur sur bois'. He was a member of th ...

(1828–1892) *

Fritz Bleyl Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics for ...

(1880–1966) * Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) *

Benjamin von Block Benjamin Block or Blok (1631–1690) was a seventeenth-century German- Hungarian Baroque painter who married the flower painter Anna Katharina Block. He is known for his portrait paintings. Biography Block was born into an artistic family i ...

(1631–1690) *

Josef Block Josef Block (27 November 1863 – 20 December 1943) was a German painter. Life and career Block was born in Bernstadt an der Weide (Bierutów) in Prussian Silesia. He was a scholar of the Breslau (Wrocław) Art Academy, where his lifelong fri ...

(1863–1943) * Hugo von Blomberg (1820–1871) *

Oscar Bluemner Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter. Early life Bluemner was born as Friedrich Julius Oskar B ...

(1867–1938) *

Gregor von Bochmann Gregor von Bochmann (1 June 1850, Nehatu, Kreis Wiek, Governorate of Estonia – 12 February 1930, Hösel, near Düsseldorf) was a Baltic-German landscape and genre painter. Biography His father was a forest warden for the Governorate of ...

(1850–1930) *

Arnold Bode Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator. Arnold was born in Kassel, Germany. From 1928 to 1933, he worked as a painter and university lecturer in Berlin. However, when the Nazis ca ...

(1900–1977) *

Leopold Bode Christian Leopold Bode (born 11 March 1831 in Offenbach am Main, died 26 July 1906 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German historical painter and graphic artist. Life Bode was the eldest of the landscape painter Georg Wilhelm Bode (1801–1881 ...

(1831–1906) * Gottlieb Bodmer (1804–1837) *

Arvid Boecker Arvid Boecker (born 1964) in Wuppertal) is a German painter and curator. He is a representative of concrete art and focuses on color field painting. Biography Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the University of Trier Art history, co ...

(born 1964) * Pedro Boese (born 1972) *

Corbinian Böhm Corbinian Böhm (born Munich, 7 August 1966) is a German people, German Painting, painter, installation artist and Sculpture, sculptor. Biography Böhm has grown up with five siblings in Harlaching, a borough of Munich. One of his brothers is th ...

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Hans Bohrdt Hans Bohrdt (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945) was a German artist. He was a Autodidacticism, self-taught painter who would later go on to give private lessons to Kaiser Wilhelm II. German Kaiser Wilhelm II took a liking to Bohrdt and would ...

(1857–1945) * Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844–1894) *

Hanns Bolz Hanns Bolz (22 January 1885, in Aachen – 4 July 1918, in Munich) was a German painter, illustrator and sculptor. He worked in the Expressionist and Cubo-Futurist styles. Biography After studying in Aachen and Cologne, he attended the Kunsta ...

(1885–1918) *

Friedrich von Bömches Friedrich Ritter Bömches von Boor (27 December 1916 – 2 May 2010)
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(1916–2010) * Paula Bonte (1840–1902) * Hinrik Bornemann (c. 1450–1499) *

Friedrich Boser Karl Friedrich Adolf Boser (1811, at Iłowa, Halbau in Silesia Province, Prussian Silesia – 1881 at Düsseldorf), was a German artist. He studied in Dresden, Berlin, and Düsseldorf; his paintings, chiefly Genre works, genre subjects and portr ...

(1811–1881) * Harald Julius von Bosse (1812–1894) * Otto Richard Bossert (1874–1919) *

Eberhard Bosslet Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation, light art and painting, all indoors and outdoors, since 1979. Biography ...

(born 1953) *

Friedrich August Bouterwek Friedrich August Bouterwek (or Buterweck) was a German artist, who spent much of his life in Paris. Life Bouterwek was born at Tarnowskie Góry, Tarnowitz, in Silesia, in 1806. He was trained in the school of Karl Kolbe, Kolbe at Berlin, and ...

(1806–1867) *

Anton Braith Anton Braith (2 September 1836 – 3 January 1905) was a German landscape and animal painter. He was also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich Life Braith was born in Biberach an der Riß. His father was a day-laborer who later beca ...

(1836–1905) * August von Brandis (1859–1947) *

Martin Brandenburg Martin Brandenburg (8 May 1870 in Poznań, Posen – 19 February 1919 in Stuttgart) was a German Impressionist painter, draftsman and graphic artist, best known for his landscapes filled with fantastical figures. Life From 1889 to 1892, he st ...

(1870–1919) *

Heinrich Brandes Georg Heinrich Brandes () was a German painter. Life Brandes was born at Bortfeld, near Brunswick, on 23 May 1803, and learned the rudiments of painting under the guidance of F. Barthels at Brunswick. From 1823 to 1825 he attended the Acad ...

(1803–1868) *

Marianne Brandt Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus ''Metall-Werkstatt'' (Metal Workshop ...

(1893–1983) *

Louis Braun Louis Braun (23 September 1836 – 18 February 1916) was a German painter, mostly of battle scenes. Biography He was born at Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg, and was educated in Munich and in Paris. He followed as an illustrator the Austrian ...

(1836–1916) * VG Braun-Dusemond (1919–1998) *

Rudolf Bredow Rudolf Bredow (born 2 November 1909 in Berlin, died 17 November 1973 in Bremen), German Post-expressionism, post-expressionist painter, Drafter, draughtsman and art teacher. Bredow's lifework became famous only after his death. It comprises ca. ...

(1909–1973) *

Ferdinand Max Bredt Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860–1921) was a German Orientalist painter, noted for his studies of female figures. Background Also known as F. M. Bredt because of that signature on his work,Christies Auction House website, http://www.christies.com ...

(1860–1921) *

K.P. Brehmer Klaus Peter Brehmer (12 September 1938 in Berlin, Germany – 16 December 1997 in Hamburg, Germany), was a German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. ...

(1938–1997) *

Carl Breitbach Carl Breitbach (1833–1904) was a German painter. Biography He was born in Berlin, and was a pupil of the Prussian Academy of Arts in that city, and of Thomas Couture in Paris. He settled in Berlin, where he devoted himself to landscape, ge ...

(1833–1904) *

Heinrich Breling Heinrich Christoph Gottlieb Breling (14 October 1849, Burgdorf - 6 September 1914, Fischerhude, near Ottersberg) was a German painter of historical and genre scenes. He was the first artist in what would later become known as the "Artists' Colo ...

(1849–1914) *

Albert Heinrich Brendel Albert Heinrich Brendel, who was born in Berlin in 1827, studied in the Prussian Academy of Arts under Wilhelm Krause. In 1851 he went to Paris, and studied under Couture and Palizzi; thence to Italy, and home to Berlin in 1853, completing hi ...

(1827–1895) *

Louise Catherine Breslau Louise Catherine Breslau (6 December 1856 – 12 May 1927) was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of ...

(1856–1927) *

Johann Michael Bretschneider Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729) was a German painter. Life Bretschneider was born at Ústí nad Labem, Aussig, in Bohemia. His parents were Wentzel and Ludmilla Bretschneider. His teacher is not assuredly known, but it is believed t ...

(1680–1729) * Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (1709–1760) * Gottfried Brockmann (1903–1983) *

Heinrich Brocksieper Heinrich Brocksieper (15 April 1898 – 24 April 1968) was a Germans, German photographer, experimental filmmaker and painter who was educated at the Bauhaus design school. Life and work Heinrich Bocksieper was born on 15 April 1898 in Hage ...

(1898–1968) *

Christian Brod Christian Brod (1917 in Oranienburg – 2012 in Berlin) was a German painter whose work was discovered by his cousin Otto Brod in 2012. In Christian Brod's Berlin apartment a number of documents were found which stated that the artist was associat ...

(1917–2012) * August Bromeis (1813–1881) * Franz Bronstert (1895–1967) * Wilhelm Brücke (1800–1874) *

Alexander Bruckmann Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852) was a German historical and portrait painter. Life Bruckmann was born at Reutlingen in 1806. From 1826 he studied painting under Georg Friedrich Eberhard at Stuttgart, and in 1827–29 he studied at Munich ...

(1806–1852) * Ferdinand Brütt (1849–1936) *

Christoph Brüx Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor, painter, composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger and music producer. He composed for artists such as No Angels, Matthias Reim, The Underdog Project ( ''Summer Jam''), Brooklyn Bounc ...

(born 1965) *

Lothar-Günther Buchheim Lothar-Günther Buchheim () (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for ...

(1918–2007) * Carl Buchheister (1890–1964) *

Erich Buchholz Erich Buchholz (1891–1972) was a German artist in painting and printmaking. He was a central figure in the development of non-objective or concrete art in Berlin between 1918 and 1924. He interrupted his artistic activity in 1925, first becaus ...

(1891–1972) * Ludwig Buchhorn (1770–1856) *

Elisabeth Büchsel Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957) was a German painter known for her Impressionist portraits and landscapes. Biography Büchsel was born on 29 January 1867 in Stralsund, Germany. She studied in Berlin, Paris, and Munich. Her teachers included Luci ...

(1867–1957) * Heinz Budweg (born 1940) *

Karl Albert Buehr Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chic ...

(1866–1952) *

Franz Bunke Franz Wilhelm Johann Bunke (3 December 1857, Schwaan - 6 July 1939, Weimar) was a German landscape painter. Life He was the son of a mill builder. In 1871, he began drawing lessons with Paul Tischbein in Rostock and attended a trade school a ...

(1857–1939) * Anton Burger (1824–1905) *

Ludwig Burger Ludwig Burger (19 September 1825 – 22 October 1884) was a German historical painter, illustrator and medalist. Biography Burger was born on 19 September 1825 in Kraków. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy, at the same time working at bo ...

(1825–1884) *

Jonas Burgert Jonas Burgert (; born 1969, West Berlin) is an artist based in Berlin. He has shown work in many exhibitions including ''Rohkunstbau'' at Stipendiaten in Berlin, ''Geschichtenerzähler'' at Hamburg Kunsthallebr>and ''Dis-Positiv'' at Staats ...

(born 1969) *

Heinrich Bürkel Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) was a German genre and landscape painter Life Bürkel was born in 1802 at Pirmasens, in Rhenish Bavaria. He was designed for trade, but devoted every spare minute to drawing. His father's house, being an inn, prese ...

(1802–1869) * Peter Burnitz (1824–1886) *

Friedrich Bury Friedrich (Fritz) Bury (12 March 1763 – 18 May 1823) was a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a goldsmith and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and then with Johann Heinrich Wi ...

(1763–1823) *

Wilhelm Busch Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day. Busch drew on the tropes of f ...

(1832–1908) * Georg Heinrich Busse (1810–1868) *

Michael Buthe Michael Buthe (1 August 1944 – 15 November 1994) was a German artist who lived and worked between Germany and Morocco. He exhibited widely throughout Europe during his life and is known for his eclectic and prolific oeuvre which encompasses pa ...

(1944–1994) * Bernhard Buttersack (1858–1925) * Erich Büttner (1889–1936) * André Butzer (born 1973)

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* Daniel Caffé (1750–1815) *

Heinrich Campendonk Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (3 November 1889 – 9 May 1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen. Life Campendonk was born in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was the ...

(1889–1957) *

Wilhelm Camphausen Wilhelm Camphausen (8 February 1818, Düsseldorf16 June 1885, Düsseldorf), was a German Painting, painter who specialized in historical and battle scenes. Biography He studied under Alfred Rethel and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. As an historical ...

(1818–1885) *

Peter Candid Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido and in Bavaria as Peter Candid (c. 1548 – 1628) was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria.Johann Hermann Carmiencke Johann Hermann Carmiencke or John Hermann Carmiencke (born at Hamburg in 1810; died at Brooklyn, New York on 15 June 1867) was a Landscape art, landscape painter and engraving, etcher. Biography He went to Dresden in 1831 as a journeyman painter ...

(1810–1867) *

Carl Gustav Carus Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, ...

(1789–1869) * Peter Caulitz (c.1650–1719) * Ludwig Choris (1795–1828) * Philipp Christfeld (1796/97–1874) *

Kiddy Citny Kiddy Citny is a German artist and musician, born in Stuttgart in 1957. He was raised in Bremen and later moved to West Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Zurich, Bern, Los Angeles, Munich, and Berlin. Citny is a member of the band Sprung Aus Den Wol ...

(born 1957) *

Lorenz Clasen Lorenz Clasen (14 December 1812, Düsseldorf - 31 May 1899, Leipzig) was a German history painter and author; best known for his frequently reproduced painting, "Germania auf der Wacht am Rhein" (Germania at Watch on the Rhein), in the town hal ...

(1812–1899) *

Gustav Adolf Closs Gustav Adolf Carl Closs also as Closs, A., Closs, A.G., Closz (or Closz), Adolf Gustav (6 May 1864, Stuttgart – 3 September 1938, Berlin) was a German painter, illustrator and heraldist and an entomologist. Biography His father was the woo ...

(1864–1938) * Ferdinand Collmann (1762–1837) * Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) *

Edward Theodore Compton Edward Theodore Compton, usually referred to as E. T. Compton, (29 July 1849 – 22 March 1921) was an English-born, German artist, illustrator and mountaineering, mountain climber. He is well known for his paintings and drawings of alpine ...

(1849–1921) * Carl Conjola (1773–1831) *

Carl Emanuel Conrad Carl Emanuel Conrad (20 March 1810 - 12 July 1873), was an architectural painter. He instructed first in Berlin and afterwards at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which he attended from 1835 till 1839. Both in this institution and at the Realsc ...

(1810–1873) *

Johann Wilhelm Cordes Johann Wilhelm Cordes (14 March 1824, Lübeck - 16 August 1869, Lübeck) was a German landscape painter. Biography He came from a family of merchants and had his primary education at the Katharineum. Originally, he was apprenticed to a commerci ...

(1824–1869) *

Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Sec ...

(1858–1925) *

Peter von Cornelius Peter von Cornelius (23 September 1783, Düsseldorf – 6 March 1867, Berlin) was a German painter; one of the main representatives of the Nazarene movement. Life Early years Cornelius was born in Düsseldorf. From the age of twelve he attend ...

(1784–1867) * Erich Correns (1821–1877) *

Helene Cramer Helene Cramer (13 December 1844 – 14 April 1916) was a German flower, landscape and portrait painter. Life Cramer came from a wealthy merchant family in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Like her sister, the painter Molly Cramer, she also began her trai ...

(1844–1916) *

Molly Cramer Molly Cramer (25 June 1852 – 18 January 1936) was a German flower, landscape and portrait painter. Trained in the old Dutch School (painting), Dutch tradition, she turned to Impressionism in her later years. Life Cramer came from a wealt ...

(1852–1936) *

Augustin Cranach Augustin Cranach (1554 — 26 July 1595) was a German painter. He was born and died in Wittenberg, and was the son of Lucas Cranach the Younger and Magdalena Schurff. He was the father of Lucas Cranach III. See also * List of German painters ...

(1554–1595) *

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is know ...

(c. 1472–1553) *

Lucas Cranach the Younger Lucas Cranach the Younger (german: Lucas Cranach der Jüngere ; October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach. Life and career Lucas Cranach ...

(1515–1586) *

Georg Heinrich Crola Georg Heinrich Crola (6 June 1804, Dresden - 6 May 1879, Ilsenburg am Harz) was a German landscape painter in the mid-19th century. He specialized in the representation of the German forest. Life Georg Heinrich Crola was born in Dresden in 1804, ...

(1804–1879)

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* Eduard Daege (1805–1883) *

Heinrich Anton Dähling Heinrich Anton Dähling (19 January 1773 – 10 September 1850) was a historical and genre painter born in Hanover. In 1794 he went to Berlin, where he was engaged in Portrait miniature, miniature painting and as a teacher of drawing. In 1802 he ...

(1773–1850) * Maximilian Dasio (1865–1954) *

Gabriela Dauerer Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958 in Nuremberg, West Germany) is a Contemporary art, contemporary German Painting, painter. She is representative of a kind of minimalism, minimalistic painting. Life From 1979 to 1986, Dauerer studied painting and g ...

(born 1958) *

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (21 October 1894 – 13 December 1970) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity. Davringhausen was born in Aachen. Mostly self-taught as a painter, he began as a sculptor, studying briefly a ...

(1894–1970) * John Decker (1895–1947) *

Wilm Dedeke Wilm Dedeke ( – 1528) was a late gothic painter from Northern Germany. He was born in Lübeck. Dedeke completed the Altar of St. Luke (Lukas-Altar) at the Hamburg Mariendom in 1499 for the Hamburg Guild of Saint Luke. It had been left unfi ...

(c. 1460–c. 1528) * Ernst Deger (1809–1885) *

Balthasar Denner Balthasar Denner (15 November 1685 – 14 April 1749) was a German painter, highly regarded as a portraitist. He painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors. Usually Denner con ...

(1685–1749) * Adolf Des Coudres (1862–1924) *

Ludwig Des Coudres Ludwig des Coudres (10 May 1820, Kassel - 23 December 1878, Karlsruhe) was a German history and portrait painter. He also served as a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. His son, Adolf Des Coudres, was a well-known landscape pa ...

(1820–1878) *

Ludwig Dettmann Ludwig Julius Christian Dettmann (25 July 1865 – 19 November 1944) was a German Impressionism, Impressionist painter. Shortly before his death, he was added to the ''Gottbegnadeten list, Gottbegnadeten'' list, a roster of artists considered cruc ...

(1865–1944) *

Christa Dichgans Christa Dichgans (1940-2018) was a German painter, associated with the Pop Art movement. Biography Dichgans was born in Berlin, Germany in 1940 and studied painting at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and the German National Academic Founda ...

(1940–2018) *

Christophe Didillon Christophe Didillon (born 1971 in Aurich, Germany) is an artist (acrylic paintings, collages, photos). He had also become a member of PARADOX artist group and OMMA. Accomplishments He participated at the opening of "The Free Will – 20 Ye ...

(born 1971) *

Karl Diebitsch Karl Diebitsch (3 January 1899 – 6 August 1985) was an artist and the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) officer responsible for designing much of the SS regalia during the Nazi era, including the chained SS officer's dagger scabbard. Diebitsch worked with ...

(1899–1985) *

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

(1851–1913) * Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885) * Albert Christoph Dies (1755–1822) * Anton Dietrich (1833–1904) *

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (30 October 1712 – 23 April 1774) was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own. Biography He was born at ...

(1712–1774) *

Wendel Dietterlin Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), sometimes Wendel Dietterlin the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, was a German mannerist painter, printmaker and architectural theoretician. Most of his paintings are now lost, and he is best known fo ...

(c. 1550–1599) *

Feodor Dietz Feodor Dietz (29 May 1813 – 18 November 1870) was a German historical and battle painter. Biography He was born in Neunstetten, Baden. He studied in Karlsruhe under Karl and Rudolf Kuntz, and while there was greatly influenced by Feodor Iv ...

(1813–1870) *

Wilhelm von Diez Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez (17 January 1839, Bayreuth – 25 February 1907, Munich) was a German painter and illustrator of the Munich School. Life He attended a trade school in Munich, followed by the Polytechnic School (precursor of ...

(1839–1907) * Ludwig Dill (1848–1940) *

Johann Georg von Dillis Johann Georg von Dillis (26 December 1759 – 28 September 1841) was a German painter. Biography He was born in Gmain near Dorfen. Son of a gamekeeper and forester, he was educated in Munich with support from the prince-elector of Bavaria. Init ...

(1759–1841) * Georg Friedrich Dinglinger (1666–1720) *

Otto Dix Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George ...

(1891–1969) *

Carl Emil Doepler Carl Emil Doepler (1824–1905) was a German painter, illustrator and costume designer.Simek (2007:62). He created the costumes for Richard Wagner's opera ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1876. These costumes included ...

(1824–1905) *

Emil Doepler Emil Doepler (29 October 1855, Munich - 21 December 1922, Berlin) was a German illustrator, graphic artist, and heraldist. He is usually referred to as The Younger, to distinguish him from his father. Life and work He was born to Carl Emil Doe ...

(1855–1922) * Max Doerner (1870–1939) * Franz Domscheit (1880–1965) *

Franz Burchard Dörbeck Franz Burchard Dörbeck ( in Fellin in Fellin) was a Baltic German graphic artist and caricaturist born in Fellin (now Viljandi, Viljandi County, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia From 1814 to 1816 Dörbeck studied engravin ...

(1799–1835) *

Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741–1813), who was born at Ehrenkirchen, Ehrenstetten, near Freiburg in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Breisgau, was a painter of historical and Genre art, genre subjects. He was at first a pupil of Franz Joseph Rös ...

(1741–1813) *

Anton Josef Dräger Anton Josef Dräger, also known as Joseph Anton Draeger, a historical painter, was born at Trèves in 1794, and died at Rome in 1833. Biography He studied under Kugelgen in Dresden, but went in 1823 to Italy and took up his quarters in Rome, ...

(1794–1833) *

Heinrich Dreber Heinrich Dreber, known as Franz-Dreber (9 January 1822, in Dresden – 3 August 1875, in Anticoli Corrado), was a German landscape art, landscape painter. Biography Living in the house of a relation whose name Franz he adopted, he frequented t ...

(1822–1875) *

Johann Friedrich Dryander Johann Friedrich Dryander (26 April 1756, in Sankt Johann, Saarbrücken – 29 March 1812, in Sankt Johann, Saarbrücken) was a German painter. Dryander created several portraits of French officers, notably: * ''French troops before Saint ...

(1756–1812) *

Eugen Dücker Eugen Gustav Dücker (also ''Eugène Gustav Dücker''; , in Arensburg (now Kuressaare, Estonia) – 6 December 1916, in Düsseldorf) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic atyle, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biograph ...

(1756–1812) *

Balthasar Anton Dunker Balthasar Anton Dunker (15 January 1746, Saal – 2 April 1807, Bern) was a German landscape painter and etcher. Biography He was the eldest son of pastor Albert Andreas Duncker (1706–1781) and his second wife, Sophie Dorothea von Olthof ( ...

(1746–1807) *

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...

(1471–1528) * Hermann Dyck (1812–1874) *

Udo Dziersk Udo Dziersk (born Gelsenkirchen, 1961) is a contemporary German painter. Since 2002 Udo Dziersk has been professor of the Orientierungs-Bereich at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, mentoring newcomers of the student body before they assume their dir ...

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* Konrad Eberhard (1768–1859) * Adam Eberle (1804–1832) *

Robert Eberle Robert Eberle (1815–1862), a German animal painter, was born at Meersburg, on Lake Constance on 22 July 1815. He died at Eberingg, near Munich, on 19 September 1862. Life He was first instructed by J.J. Johann Jakob Biedermann, Bidermann at ...

(1815–1862) * Johann Christian Eberlein (1770–1815) *

John Giles Eccardt John Giles Eccardt (1720–1779) was a German-born British portrait painter. He came to England in the company of the French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo for whom he worked as an assistant. When Van Loo departed the country, Eccardt remained a ...

(1720–1799) *

Michael Echter Michael Echter (5 March 1812, Munich – 4 February 1879, Munich) was a German painter, known primarily for historical scenes. Biography He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Heinrich Maria von Hess, Clemens von Zimmermann and J ...

(1812–1879) * Friedrich Eckenfelder (1861–1938) * Heinrich Ambros Eckert (1807–1840) * Otto Eckmann (1865–1902) *

John Eckstein Johann or John Eckstein (1735-1817), was a German-born sculptor, engraver and painter who worked briefly in London before establishing himself in his homeland and then in United States, America. He is not to be confused with his son, also known ...

(1735–1817) *

Martin Eder Martin Eder (born 31 August 1968 in Augsburg) is a German artist. From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, and from 1993 until 1995 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, attending ...

(born 1968) * Carl Eggers (1787–1863) *

Franz Xaver Eggert Franz Xaver Eggert (11 November 1802 – 14 October 1876) was a German stained glass, glass painter. Life Eggert was born at Höchstädt an der Donau, Höchstädt on the Danube, and studied decorative painting at Augsburg and Munich; but he aft ...

(1802–1876) * Julie von Egloffstein (1792–1869) * Julius von Ehren (1864–1944) * Paul Ehrenberg (1876–1949) *

Friedrich Eibner Friedrich Eibner (1826–1877), a German painter of architectural subjects, was born at Hilpoltstein. He studied after the works of Heinrich Schönfeld, and travelled in Bavaria, and afterwards in Germany, France, Upper Italy, and Spain, making ...

(1826–1877) *

Franz Eichhorst Franz Eichhorst (Berlin 7 September 1885 – 30 April 1948 Innsbruck) was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, one of a number of German artists known for his war paintings supporting the Nazi regime.McCloskey, Barbara''Artists of Worl ...

(1885–1948) *

Elisabeth von Eicken Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940) was a German landscape painter. Life Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816–1873) and Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836–1916) in Mülheim an der ...

(1862–1940) *

Andreas Eigner Andreas Eigner (1801–1870), who was born at Diedldorf, Upper Palatinate, distinguished himself as a painter and a restorer of old pictures. He successfully employed alcoholic vapours, and a varnish of his own invention, to protect paintings a ...

(1801–1870) *

Fritz Eisel Fritz Eisel (27 March 1929 – 19 September 2010) was a German painter and graphic artist. Life Eisel was born into a Communist Party of Germany, Communist (albeit relatively apolitical) working-class family in Lauterbach, Hesse, Lauterbach, ...

(1929–2010) * Marie Ellenrieder (1791–1863) * Friedrich August Elsasser (1810–1845) *

Adam Elsheimer __NOTOC__ Adam Elsheimer (18 March 1578 – 11 December 1610) was a German artist working in Rome, who died at only thirty-two, but was very influential in the early 17th century in the field of Baroque paintings. His relatively few paintin ...

(1578–1610) * Ludwig Elsholtz (1805–1850) * Wilhelm Emelé (1830–1905) *

Edgar Ende Edgar Karl Alfons Ende (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German surrealist painter and father of the children's novelist Michael Ende. Ende attended the Altona School of Arts and Crafts from 1916 to 1920. In 1922 he married Gertr ...

(1901–1965) * Sylvester Engbrox (born 1964) *

Johann Friedrich Engel Johann Friedrich Engel (also known as ''John Fred Engel'', April 24, 1844 – March 2, 1921) was a German painter and illustrator. He lived for a time in the United States. Early life At age eight, Engel moved to the United States with his par ...

(1844–1921) *

Carl Engel von der Rabenau Carl Engel von der Rabenau (1817-1870), a German painter, was born at Londorf, and died at Rödelheim, today part of Frankfurt am Main. The Darmstadt Gallery has a ''View of the Studio of the Sculptor ,'' by him. Another painting ''Family Port ...

(1817–1870) *

Horus Engels Richard 'Horus' Engels (1914–1991) was a Germans, German painter, sculptor and illustrator. Engels was born in London, England to Germans, German parents. In his youth Engels lived in Berlin and studied in Paris. He trained to be an econo ...

(1914–1991) * Karl von Enhuber (1811–1867) * Josef Otto Entres (1804–1870) *

Ulrich Erben Ulrich Erben (born 26 March 1940 in Düsseldorf) is a German painter. From 1980 to 2005, he was a Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie Münster (University of Fine Arts Münster). He is known as a master of the color field style of abstract ...

(born 1940) * Otto Erdmann (1834–1905) * Fritz Erler (1868–1940) *

Johann Franz Ermels Johann Franz Ermels (1641 – December 1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch. He resided at Nuremberg, and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the ''Resurrection''; he was m ...

(1641–1693) *

Max Ernst Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism ...

(1891–1976) *

Hermann Eschke Hermann Wilhelm Benjamin Eschke (6 May 1823 - 15 January 1900) was a German painter who specialized in marine art. Biography Eschke was born in Berlin. In 1840, at the age of seventeen, he began his studies with Professor Wilhelm Herbig and, ...

(1823–1900) * Stefan Ettlinger (born 1958) *

Ernst Ewald Ernst Deodat Paul-Ferdinand Ewald (17 March 1836 in Berlin – 30 December 1904 in Berlin) was a German painter. Life He came from a banking family and attended the University of Bonn, where he studied medicine and the natural sciences. ...

(1836–1904) * Julius Exter (1863–1939) * Carl Gottfried Eybe (1813–1893) * Adolf Eybel (1802–1882)

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Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (18 August 1780 in Stuttgart – 6 February 1857 in Stuttgart) was a painter and an officer in the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg. He first devoted himself to painting, but subsequently became a soldier, ...

(1780–1857) *

Johann Joachim Faber Johann Joachim Faber (12 April 1778 in Hamburg – 2 August 1846 in Hamburg) was a landscape art, landscape painter who was born in Hamburg. He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the Altarpiece, altar-piece, ''Suffer Little C ...

(1778–1846) *

Carl Ferdinand Fabritius Carl Ferdinand Fabritius (1637 – 21 January 1673) was a painter in the Bishopric of Paderborn (German: ''Fürstbistum Paderborn''). Paderborn prince-bishop (German: ''Fürstbischof'') Ferdinand of Fürstenberg commissioned Fabritius ...

(1637–1673) *

Wilhelm Facklam Wilhelm Facklam (16 April 1893 – 21 September 1972) was a German Landscape painting, landscape artist and Drawing, draftsman. The focus of his work was on the countryside of his home region, Mecklenburg. He is one of the most important landsc ...

(1893–1972) *

Ludwig Fahrenkrog Ludwig Fahrenkrog (20 October 1867 – 27 October 1952) was a German painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer. He was born in Rendsburg, Prussia, in 1867. He started his career as an artist in his youth, and attended the Berlin Royal Art A ...

(1867–1952) *

Joachim Martin Falbe Joachim Martin Falbe (11 June 1709 – 22 March 1782) was a German portrait painting, portrait painter. Biography Born in Berlin in 1709, Falbe was instructed at first by Johann Harper, Harper and later by Antoine Pesne, A. Pesne. At Pesne's ...

(1709–1782) *

Joseph Fassbender Joseph Fassbender (Faßbender) (14 April 1903, in Cologne – 5 January 1974, in Cologne) was a German painter and draughtsman. Life and art During the 1920s Fassbender was trained in painting by Richard Seewald at the Kölner Werkschulen. S ...

(1903–1974) *

Berthold Faust Berthold Faust is a German artist (b. 1935, Hofheim am Taunus), noted especially for his realistic and detailed drawings of nature and animals. To achieve accuracy in the tiniest detail, he uses specimens prepared by museums, photographs, and even ...

(born 1935) *

Joseph Fay Joseph Fay may refer to: * Joseph Fay (artist), German painter and illustrator * Joseph Fay (politician), American politician, militia officer, and businessman in Vermont See also * Joseph S. Fay Shipwreck Site {{hndis, Fay, Joseph ...

(1813–1875) * Christian Gottlob Fechhelm (1732–1816) * Eduard Clemens Fechner (1799–1861) *

Hans Feibusch Hans Nathan FeibuschFeibusch, Hans Nathan< ...

(1898–1998) * Manfred Feiler (1925–2020) *

Paul Feiler Paul Feiler (30 April 1918 – 8 July 2013) was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world. Early life Paul Feiler was born in 1918 in Frankf ...

(1918–2013) *

Max Feldbauer Max Feldbauer (1869–1948) was a German painter, associated with the Munich Secession. He is primarily known for rural, Bavarian scenes. Life and work His father, Josef Feldbauer, served as the Mayor of Neumarkt from 1868 to 1876. After h ...

(1869–1948) *

Conrad Felixmüller Conrad Felixmüller (21 May 1897 – 24 March 1977) was a German Expressionism, expressionist painter and printmaker. Born in Dresden as Conrad Felix Müller, he chose Felixmüller as his ''Art-name, nom d'artiste''. Early life and career He a ...

(1897–1977) *

Ferdinand Fellner Ferdinand Fellner (19 April 1847 – 22 March 1916) was an Austrian architect. Biography Fellner joined his ailing father's architecture firm at the age of nineteen. After his death he founded the architecture studio Fellner & Helmer together w ...

(1799–1859) *

Melchior Feselen Melchior Feselen, an historical painter, of Passau, lived at the same time as Albrecht Altdorfer, Altdorfer, whose works he imitated with Diligence, assiduity. Though he was inferior to that artist, his paintings are rich in composition, with a ...

(c. 1495–1538) *

Rainer Fetting Rainer Fetting (born 31 December 1949 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany) is a German painter and sculptor. Rainer Fetting was one of the co-founders and main protagonists of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, founded in the late 1970s by a group o ...

(born 1949) *

Johann Michael Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fis ...

(1709–1772) *

Anselm Feuerbach Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. Biography Early life Feuerbach was born at Speyer, the son of the archaeologist Joseph ...

(1829–1880) *

Martin von Feuerstein Martin Feuerstein (after 1914, Martin Ritter von Feuerstein; 6 January 1856, Barr - 13 February 1931, Munich) was a German painter and art teacher. He was a late adherent of the Nazarene movement, but was also heavily influenced by impressionism ...

(1856–1941) * Willy Fick (1893–1967) *

Friedrich Kurt Fiedler ''Friedrich'' Kurt Fiedler (8 March 1894 – 11 November 1950) was a German graphic designer and a representative of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party. During the Weimar Republic he was acknowledged for his poster ...

(1894–1950) * Johann Dominicus Fiorillo (1748–1821) * Klaus Fisch (1893–1975) * John Fischer (1786–1875) *

Joseph Anton Fischer Joseph Anton Fischer (1814–1859) was a German painter born at Oberstdorf, Oberstorf, Allgäu, Algäu. Biography He was at first a cow-herd, but being assisted by Claudius Schraudolph the Elder, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, ...

(1814–1859) *

Oskar Fischinger Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music vid ...

(1900–1967) *

Arthur Fitger Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger (4 October 184028 June 1909) was a German painter, art critic, playwright and poet. Biography Arthur Fitger was one of the ten children of Delmenhorst (Grand Duchy of Oldenburg) postmaster Ratsherr Peter Diedrich ...

(1840–1909) *

Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker (1792–1847) was a German painter. 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 ...

(1792–1847) * Albert Flamm (1823–1906) * Georg Flegel (1566–1638) *

François Fleischbein François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in New Orleans. Biography Fleischbein was born in Godramstein, Palatinate, nowadays Germany, in 1804. He studied painting in Paris with Anne-Louis Girodet. I ...

(1804–1868) * Lutz Fleischer (1956–2019) *

Max Fleischer Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 25, 1972) was an American animator, inventor, film director and producer, and studio founder and owner. Born in Kraków, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became ...

(1861–1930) *

Adolf Fleischmann Adolf Richard Fleischmann (18 March 1892 - 28 January 1968) was a German abstract painter. His late work evolved into Constructivism (art), constructivism; he is considered a precursor of Op Art. Life Fleischmann was born in Esslingen am Neckar, ...

(1892–1968) * Gerlach Flicke (fl. 1545–1558) * Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911) * Gisbert Flüggen (1811–1859) * Josef Flüggen (1842–1906) * Daniel Fohr (1801–1862) *

Karl Philipp Fohr Karl Philipp Fohr (26 November 1795 – 29 June 1818), a brother of Daniel Fohr, was a German painter, born at Heidelberg in 1795. Life and education Fohr started his studies of painting with Friedrich Rottmann, and was largely self-taught. ...

(1795–1818) * Philipp von Foltz (1805–1877) *

Günther Förg Günther Förg (December 5, 1952 – December 5, 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting.

(1952–2013) * Ernst Joachim Förster (1800–1885) *

Arnold Forstmann Arnold Forstmann (born 16 June 1842 in Düsseldorf; died 1914 or later), German landscape-painter. Besides the typical composed romantic landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting Forstmann painted ''vedute'' of the Rhine ...

(1842–c. 1914) *

Hans Ulrich Franck Hans Ulrich Franck, a German historical painter and etcher, was born at Kaufbeuren, in Swabia (Bavaria), Swabia, in 1603. He resided chiefly at Augsburg, where he died in 1675. His son Franz Friedrich Franck was an artist as well. Among other eng ...

(1603–1675) * Philipp Franck (1860–1944) *

Meister Francke Master Francke O.P. (or Meister Francke, Frater Francke, respectively German for "Master Francke" and Latin for "Brother Francke") was a North German Gothic painter and Dominican friar, born ca. 1380 in the Lower Rhine region or possibly Zutphe ...

(c. 1380–c. 1440) * Michael Sigismund Frank (1770–1847) * Eduard Frederich (1813–1864) *

Hermann Freese Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes. Personal life He was born in Pomerania in 1813. He was expected by his father to be a farmer, in spite of his early inclination to art. At age 34 ...

(1813–1871) *

Otto Freundlich Otto Freundlich (10 July 1878 – 9 March 1943) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. A part of the first generation of abstract painters in Western art, Freundlich was a great admirer of cubism. Life Freundlich was born in ...

(1878–1943) *

Max Frey Max Frey (April 16, 1874 – March 11, 1944) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the Symbolism and New Objectivity movements. Some of his works contained elements of magical realism Life He was born to a family of merchants ...

(1874–1944) * Maria Elektrine von Freyberg (1797–1847) * Heinrich Jakob Fried (1802–1870) *

Caroline Friederike Friedrich Caroline Friederike Friedrich (born 4 March 1749 in Friedrichstadt bei Dresden; died 20 January 1815 in Dresden) was a flower painter. She was court painter and a member of the Dresden Academy, and produced a number of admired bouquets in oil an ...

(1749–1815) * Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) * Fred Friedrich (born 1943) *

Woldemar Friedrich Woldemar Friedrich (20 August 1846 in Gnadau, Saxony – 16 September 1910 in Berlin) was a German historical painter and illustrator. Biography In 1863, he began his studies at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, with Carl Steffeck. ...

(1846–1910) * Fritz Friedrichs (1882–1928) *

Bernhard Fries Bernhard Fries (16 May 1820 – 21 May 1879) was a German landscape painting, landscape painter. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography He was born in Heidelberg. He studied under Carl Koopmann in Karlsruhe, and fr ...

(1820–1879) * Ernst Fries (1801–1833) *

Karl Friedrich Fries Karl Friedrich Fries (1831 at Winnweiler, Germany – 1871 at St. Gall, Switzerland), studied first at the Academy at Munich, and afterwards under Berdellé. He visited Vienna, and painted there under Rahl; then went to Venice, Florence, and C ...

(1831–1871) *

Richard Friese Richard Friese (15 December 1854 – 29 June 1918) was a German animal and landscape painter. Biography He was born in Gumbinnen. He studied at the Academy in Berlin, where, after traveling in the orient, in Norway, and as far as the polar re ...

(1854–1918) *

Johann Christoph Frisch Johann Christoph Frisch (born 9 February 1738 in Berlin; died 28 February 1815 in Berlin) was a historical painter. He was the son of the designer and engraver, Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch. He was a pupil of B. Rode and afterwards studied furth ...

(1737–1815) *

Karl Ludwig Frommel Karl Ludwig Frommel (29 April 1789 – 6 February 1863) was a German Landscape art, landscape painter and engraver, born at Birkenfeld. He studied at Karlsruhe, under F. J. Becker and Haldenwang, visited Paris, and earned a considerable r ...

(1789–1863) * Günter Fruhtrunk (1923–1982) *

Ulrich Füetrer Ulrich Füetrer or Füterer (before 1450 - between 1496 and 1500) was a German writer, painter, and sculptor. Born in Landshut before 1450 (some sources state 1430 as the year of his birth), Ulrich Füetrer went to the Latin school in that city ...

(c. 1450–1496/1500) *

Heinrich Füger Heinrich Friedrich Füger (8 December 1751, in Heilbronn – 5 November 1818, in Vienna) was a German classicist portrait and historical painter. Biography Füger was a pupil of Nicolas Guibal in Stuttgart and of Adam Friedrich Oeser in L ...

(1751–1818) * Hinrik Funhof (?–1485) *

Edmund Fürst Edmund Fürst, also Edmund Fuerst, (born 6 January 1874 in Berlin; died 1955 in Tel Aviv) was a German-Israeli painter and illustrator. Life Edmund Fürst was born in 1874 in Berlin. His father Gustav Gerschon had studied art in Paris and late ...

(1874–1955) * Klaus Fußmann (born 1938) * Conrad Fyoll (fl. 1464–1476)

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Eduard Gaertner Johann Philipp Eduard Gaertner (2 June 1801, Berlin – 22 February 1877, Flecken Zechlin, in Rheinsberg) was a German painter who specialized in depictions of urban architecture. Early life and work Education In 1806, he moved with his ...

(1801–1877) * Bernd Erich Gall (born 1956) *

Franz Gareis Johann Franz Peter Paul Gareis (28 June 1775, Ostritz - 31 May 1803, Rome) was a German portrait painter and illustrator.Wolf Stadler, ''Lexikon der Kunst 5. Gal – Herr.'' Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, , pg.12. Life and work At the ag ...

(1775–1803) * Friedrich Gärtner (1824–1905) * Heinrich Gärtner (1828–1909) * Anna Rosina de Gasc (1713–1783) *

Karl Gatermann the Elder Karl Gatermann (July 19, 1883 – February 14, 1959), typically referred to as Karl Gatermann the Elder, was a German painter and graphic artist. He was the uncle of artist Karl Gatermann the Younger, Karl Gatermann, who is typically called "Kar ...

(1883–1959) *

Karl Gatermann the Younger Karl Gatermann (June 17, 1909 – April 3, 1992), typically referred to in art circles as Karl Gatermann the Younger, was a German painter, graphic artist, and set designer. He was the nephew of his namesake, Karl Gatermann, also an artist. ...

(1909–1992) * Jakob Gauermann (1773–1843) * Ernst Gebauer (1782–1865) *

Eduard von Gebhardt Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt (13 June 1838 – 3 February 1925) was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Biography He was born to Ferdinand Theodor von Gebhardt (1803� ...

(1838–1925) *

Josef Anton Gegenbauer Josef Anton von Gegenbaur (6 March 1800, in Wangen, Württemberg – 31 January 1876, in Rome) was an accomplished German historical and portrait painter. Biography He studied first at the Royal Academy in Munich under Robert von Langer, rema ...

(1800–1876) * Otto Geigenberger (1881–1946) *

Rupprecht Geiger Rupprecht Geiger (26 January 1908 – 6 December 2009) was a German abstract painter and sculptor. Throughout his career, he favored monochromicity and color-field paintings. For a time, he concentrated solely on the color red. Life and work ...

(1908–2009) * Willi Geiger (1878–1971) * Carl Geist (1870–1931) *

Bonaventura Genelli Giovanni Bonaventura Genelli (28 September 179813 November 1868) was a German painter. Biography Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798. He was the son of Janus Genelli, a painter whose landscapes are still preserved in the Schloss at Berlin; and g ...

(1798–1868) * Hanns Georgi (1901–1989) *

Ludger Gerdes Ludger Gerdes (10 April 1954, Lastrup, (Germany) – 17 October 2008 near Dülmen) was a German painter, sculptor and multimedia artist. Life After his school-leaving examination (Abitur) at the secondary school Antonianum in Vechta, Ludge ...

(1954–2008) *

Till Gerhard Till Gerhard (born 1971) is a German artist based in Hamburg. Life and work Till Gerhard was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied at Muthesius Hochschule fur Kunst und Gestaltung, Kiel (1992–93) and the Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaf ...

(born 1971) *

Ida Gerhardi Ida Gerhardi (2 August 1862 – 29 June 1927) was a German Neo-Impressionist painter who spent much of her career in Paris. Biography She was born in Hagen on 2 August 1862. Her father was a doctor. After his early death in 1869, the family ...

(1862–1927) * Eduard Gerhardt (1813–1888) * Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921) *

Ludwig Geyer Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (21 January 1779 – 30 September 1821) was a German actor, playwright, and painter. Life and career Born in Eisleben, he was the stepfather of composer Richard Wagner, whose biological father had died some six ...

(1779–1821) * Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf (1895–1959) *

Torben Giehler Torben Giehler (born 1973) is a German abstract artist. Giehler was born in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen, West Germany. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1999, he attended the New York Studio Program. He is the ...

(born 1973) * Werner Gilles (1894–1961) *

Julius E.F. Gipkens Julius E. F. Gipkens (16 February 1883 – 1968) was a German painter, illustrator and graphic designer. Early life and career Julius Gipkens was born in Hannover, Germany. Gipkens was self-taught and found inspiration in Lucian Bernhard's wor ...

(1883–1968) * Joseph Anton Glantschnigg (1695–1750) * Erich Glas (1897–1973) *

Horst Gläsker Horst Gläsker (born March 21, 1949 in Herford, Germany) is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation art, installation and architecture. Development From 1963 to 1966 Horst Gl ...

(born 1949) *

Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Gleichen-Rußwurm (25 October 1836, Castle Greifenstein in Unterfranken - 9 July 1901, Weimar) was a German impressionist painter and graphic artist who was one of the pioneers of that style in Germany. He was a gra ...

(1836–1901) * Otto Gleichmann (1887–1963) *

Hermann Glöckner Hermann Glöckner (21 January 1889 – 25 May 1987) was a German painter and sculptor. He was an important representative of constructivism. Glöckner was born in Cotta near Dresden. He attended the vocational school in Leipzig in 1903 and wor ...

(1889–1987) *

Paul Salvator Goldengreen Paul Salvator Goldengreen (bon 27 August 1960 in Warburg, Germany) is an artist whose work originates in Art Brut / Outsider Art. Life After fifteen months of basic military training with the German Army at Münster and Lüneburg in 1980/81, he ...

(born 1960) * Hilde Goldschmidt (1897–1980) * Dieter Goltzsche (born 1934) *

Paul Gösch Paul Gösch (30 August 1885 – 22 August 1940), also Goesch or Göschen, was a German artist, architect, lithographer, and designer of the early twentieth century; he was associated with the main elements of German Expressionism. Beginnings G� ...

(1885–1940) *

Karl Otto Götz Karl Otto Götz (22 February 1914 – 19 August 2017) often simply called K.O. Götz, was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and ac ...

(1914–2017) *

Leo Götz Leonhard "Leo" Götz (1883 – 3 November 1962) was a German painter. Biography Born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, he studied painting and sketching in Nuremberg and Munich. At the Royal Bavarian Academie of Pictorial Arts, where Franz von ...

(1883–1962) *

Jakob Götzenberger Jakob Götzenberger (Franz Jakob Julius Götzenberger, Heidelberg 4 November 1802 – Darmstadt 6 October 1866) was a German mural painter and portraitist, a pupil of Peter Cornelius. He spent much of the later part of his career in Engl ...

(1802–1866) * Carl Götzloff (1799–1866) * Henry Gowa (1902–1990) * Gustav Graef (1821–1895) * Peter Graf (born 1937) *

Albert Gräfle Albert Gräfle (1809–1889) was a German historical, genre, and portrait painter. Biography He was born at Freiburg, where he studied philosophy at the university. In 1827, he became the pupil of Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Caro ...

(1809–1889) *

August Grahl August Grahl (26 May 1791, Göhren-Lebbin - 13 June 1868, Dresden) was a German portrait painter and miniaturist. Life He was the son of the Court Jeweler to the Hohenzollerns. From 1811 to 1813, he studied at the Berlin University of the ...

(1791–1868) *

Walter Gramatté Walter Gramatté (8 January 1897 in Berlin – 9 February 1929 in Hamburg) was a German expressionist Painting, painter who specialized in magic realism. He worked in Berlin, Hamburg, Hiddensee and Barcelona. He often painted with a mystical v ...

(1897–1929) * Fritz Grasshoff (1913–1997) *

Gotthard Graubner Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany. Graubner studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in Germany, be ...

(1930–2013) * Otto Greiner (1869–1916) * Fritz Greve (1863–1931) *

Otto Griebel Otto Griebel (31 March 1895 – 7 March 1972) was a German painter. In 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo and his paintings were branded as degenerate art. His painting "Child at a Table" was one of the artworks found in the 2012 Munich ar ...

(1895–1972) *

Christian Griepenkerl Christian Griepenkerl (17 March 1839 – 22 March 1916) was a German painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Biography Griepenkerl was born to one of Oldenburg's leading families. As a young man, he heeded the advice of his ...

(1839–1912) *

HAP Grieshaber Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber (15 February 1909 – 12 May 1981) was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts. Biography Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in R ...

(1909–1981) * Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863) *

Friedrich Carl Gröger Friedrich Carl Gröger (14 October 1766 in Plön – 9 November 1838 in Hamburg) was a north-German portrait painter and lithographer. One of the most respected portraitists of his time in northern Germany, his works are to be found in seve ...

(1766–1838) *

Carl Grossberg Carl Grossberg, originally Georg Carl Wilhelm Grandmontagne (6 September 1894 – 19 October 1940) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement; best known for his urban and industrial scenes. Biography He received his pri ...

(1894–1940) *

Theodor Grosse Theodor Grosse (1829–91) was a German historical painter. He was born at Dresden and studied at the Dresden Academy under Bendemann. For his encaustic decorations in the castle of Count Solms Wildenfels on the Mulde, he was awarded the trav ...

(1829–1891) * George Grosz (1893–1959) * Michael Gruber (born 1965) *

Hans Grundig Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. He was born in Dresden and, after an apprenticeship as an interior decorator, studied in 1920–1921 ...

(1901–1958) *

Emil Otto Grundmann Professor Emil Otto Grundmann (1844 in Meissen – 27 August 1890 in Dresden), was a German painter who studied in Antwerp under Baron Hendrik Leys, and in Düsseldorf before moving to America where he became a noted painter. He was the fir ...

(1844–1890) *

Matthias Grünewald Matthias Grünewald ( – 31 August 1528) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. His first name is also given ...

(c. 1470–1528) * Jakob Grünenwald(1821–1896) *

Eduard von Grützner Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner (May 26, 1846 – April 2, 1925) was a German painter and professor of art. He was especially noted for his genre paintings of monks. He also repeatedly portrayed Falstaff. Childhood Grützner was b ...

(1846–1925) *

Richard Guhr Richard Guhr (30 September 1873 – 27 September 1956) was a German sculptor and painter. He became also known as one of the most important teachers of Otto Dix. Biography Guhr was born in Schwerin in 1873. At an age of 17 he came to Dresden, th ...

(1873–1956) * Louis Gurlitt (1812–1897) *

Karl Gussow Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor. Life and work His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he wa ...

(1843–1907)

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Carl Haag Carl Haag (20 April 1820 – 24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Biography Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and ...

(1820–1915) * August Haake (1889–1915) *

Hugo von Habermann Hugo Joseph Anton Freiherr von Habermann (14 June 1849 – 27 February 1929) was a German painter and draftsman. He is sometimes referred to as "the Elder" to distinguish him from his nephew of the same name, who was also a painter. Life Habe ...

(1849–1929) *

Wenzel Hablik Wenzel August Hablik, also known as Wenceslav Hablik and Wilhelm August Hablik (4 August 1881 – 23 March 1934), was a painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, and craftsman of the early twentieth century, associated with German Expressio ...

(1881–1934) *

Jakob Philipp Hackert Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. Biography Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He t ...

(1737–1807) *

Gabriel von Hackl Gabriel (von) Hackl (24 March 1843 – 5 June 1926) was a German historicism (art), historicist painter. Life and work He was born in Maribor, Lower Styria, Austrian Empire. A surgeon's son, he attended the gymnasium (school), gymnasium in his ...

(1843–1926) * Karl Hagedorn (1922–2005) * Karl Hagemeister (1848–1933) * Theodor Hagen (1842–1919) *

Ludwig von Hagn Ludwig von Hagn (or Louis von Hagn; 23 November 1819 – 15 January 1898) was a German genre painter. Biography He was born in Munich, the son of a businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab. His older sister, Charlotte von Hagn, ...

(1820–1898) * Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001) * Hubert Haider (1879–1971) * Karl Michael Haider (1846–1912) * Jost Haller (fl. 1440−1470) * Christian Gottlob Hammer (1779–1864) *

Alois Hanslian Alois Hanslian (born 1943 in Ennigerloh, Germany) is a German painter. Biography After his graphics and arts study Hanslian was working in Germany and abroad as an Art Director and Illustrator in advertising agencies. Among his work are painti ...

(born 1943) * Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (1794–1848) *

Heinrich Harder Heinrich Harder (2 June 1858 – 5 February 1935) was a German artist and an art professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin best known for his depictions of extinct animals. Life Heinrich Harder was born in Putzar, Pomerania, the son ...

(1858–1935) * Fritz Harnest (1905–1999) *

Hans Hartung Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur. Life Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany into an ar ...

(1904–1989) *

Petre Hârtopeanu Petre Hârtopeanu (15 June 1913, Dângeni, Botoșani County, Romania — 22 March 2001, Frankfurt-am-Main) was a Romanian-German Painting, painter and art professor. Life Hârtopeanu began his studies and work in Iași. He studied at the Ge ...

(1913–2001) * Wilhelm Hasemann (1850–1913) *

Carl Hasenpflug Carl Hasenpflug (1802–1858) was a German artist who specialized in landscape painting, primarily the rendering of architecture. Biography Born in Berlin, Hasenpflug was first apprenticed as a shoemaker to his father, then to the decorative p ...

(1802–1858) *

Max Haushofer Maximilian Joseph Haushofer (12 September 1811 – 24 August 1866) was a German landscape painter and professor of landscape painting at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. Biography He was born in Nymphenburg, the son of a tutor at the court of ...

(1811–1866) *

Eberhard Havekost Eberhard Havekost (1967 – 5 July 2019) was a contemporary German painter based in Berlin and Dresden, who exhibited internationally. Biography Born in Dresden, Havekost was the son of a sculptor and a taxidermist.Claire Selvin (July 9, 2019)E ...

(1967–2019) *

John Heartfield John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a 20th century German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements ...

(1891–1968) *

Erich Heckel Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group ''Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer ...

(1883–1970) * Jakob Hecker (1897–1969) *

Michael Heckert Michael Heckert (born 29 October 1950, in Halle an der Saale) is a contemporary painter who dedicates himself to abstract expressionism. The artist depicts and describes the phenomenon of the female. He was influenced by American painter Willem d ...

(born 1950) *

Elise Neumann Hedinger Elise Neumann Hedinger (1854-1923) was a German painter known for her still life painting. Biography Hedinger née Neumann was born on 3 July 1854 in Berlin, Germany. She studied in Germany and France with Charles Hoguet, Albert Hertel, Euge ...

(1854–1923) *

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck Carl Wilhelm von Heideck ( el, Κάρολος φον Χέυδεκ, born in Sarralbe, Moselle, on 6 December 1788 – died in Munich on 21 February 1861) was a Bavarian military officer, a philhellene and painter. Biography Von Heideck studied ...

(1788–1861) *

Wilhelm Heine Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, better known as Wilhelm (or William) Heine (January 30, 1827 in Dresden – October 5, 1885 in Lößnitz near Dresden) was a German-American artist, world traveller and writer as well as an officer during the Amer ...

(1827–1885) *

Bettina Heinen-Ayech Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Heinen-Ayech died on 7 J ...

(1937–2020) *

Thilo Heinzmann Thilo Heinzmann (born 1969) is a German painter. After a guest professorship of painting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg in Hamburg, he was appointed professor of painting at Universität der Künste in Berlin. Life From 1992 t ...

(born 1969) * Johannes Heisig (born 1953) *

Werner Heldt Werner Heldt (1904–1954) was a German painter. Life Heldt was born in Berlin on 17 November 1904. The son of a pastor, he attended a grammar school, the ''Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster''. He studied a ...

(1904–1954) *

Wilhelm Hempfing Wilhelm Hempfing (15 July 1886 – 6 June 1948) was a German painter and printmaker. Life and work He was born in Schönau. He was a master student at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, where he studied with Friedrich Fehr. He also learned etchi ...

(1886–1948) * Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931) *

Wilhelm Hensel Wilhelm Hensel (6 July 1794 – 26 November 1861) was a German painter, brother of Luise Hensel, husband to Fanny Mendelssohn, and brother-in-law to Felix Mendelssohn. Life and career Wilhelm Hensel was born on 6 July 1794 in the German tow ...

(1794–1861) * Thomas Herbst (1848–1915) * Friedrich Herlin (c. 1425/30–1500) *

Franz Georg Hermann Franz Georg Hermann (29 December 1692, Kempten - 25 November 1768, Kempten) was a German painter in the Baroque style. Life and work His first studies were with his father, the court painter, . Then, at the age of fifteen, the Benedictines awa ...

(1692–1768) *

Curt Herrmann Hugo Curt Herrmann (1 February 1854 – 13 September 1929) was a German Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter; associated with the Berlin Secession. Biography He was born in Merseburg, in the Prussian Province of Saxony (now Saxony-A ...

(1854–1929) * Ludwig von Herterich (1856–1932) * Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832–1932) *

Heinrich Maria von Hess Heinrich Maria von Hess (19 April 1798 in Düsseldorf - 29 Märch 1863 in Munich) was a German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement. Biography Hess was born at Düsseldorf and brought up to the profession of art by his father, the engra ...

(1798–1863) *

Karl Hess Karl Hess (born Carl Hess III; May 25, 1923 – April 22, 1994) was an American speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, and libertarian activist. His career included stints on ...

(1801–1874) *

Peter von Hess Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. Life Peter von Hess initially received training from his fat ...

(1792–1871) *

Carle Hessay Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay (30 November 1911 - 1 January 1978),McMann 2003, p. 101.Hilmo, in Woods 2005, p. v. was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Cana ...

(1911–1978) *

Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (10 September 1758, Stuttgart - 31 December 1838, Stuttgart) was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes. Biography His father w ...

(1758–1839) *

Werner Heuser Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ...

(1880–1964) * Adolf von Heydeck (1787–1856) *

Ernst Hildebrand Ernst Wilhelm Hildebrand (8 March 1833, Falkenberg, Heideblick - 17 November 1924, Berlin) was a German painter. Many art websites mistakenly identify him as "Swiss". Biography He was the son of a landowner who later became the station ma ...

(1833–1924) *

Eduard Hildebrandt Eduard Hildebrandt (9 September 1818 in Danzig25 October 1868 in Berlin) was a German landscape painter. Biography He served as apprentice to his father, a house-painter at Danzig. He was not twenty when he moved to Berlin, where he was taken in ...

(1818–1868) *

Theodor Hildebrandt Theodor Hildebrandt (2 July 1804, Stettin29 September 1874, Düsseldorf) was a German artist of the Düsseldorf school of painting who specialized in literary and historical subjects. He was also a noted entomologist. Biography He was a disci ...

(1804–1874) *

Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the ...

(1893–1965) *

Rudolf Hirth du Frênes Rudolf Hirth du Frênes (24 July 1846, Gräfentonna, near Gotha - 1 May 1916, Miltenberg) was a German painter. Life His father was a notary. Du Frênes was his mother's maiden name, which he adopted for professional use. At the age of fifteen ...

(1846–1916) *

Dora Hitz Dora Hitz (30 March 1856, Altdorf bei Nürnberg - 20 November 1924, Berlin) was a Court Painter to the Romanian Royal Family, a member of the November Group and co-founder of the Berlin Secession. Life When she was six years old, her family ...

(1856–1924) *

Hannah Höch Hannah Höch (; 1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) 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. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pa ...

(1889–1978) * Paul Hoecker (1854–1910) *

Angelika Hoerle Angelika Hoerle (née Margaretha Angelika Fick; 20 November 1899 – 9 September 1923) was a German Dada artist who was a founding member of the Cologne art group Stupid and the cofounder of a Dadaist publishing house. Life She was born Mar ...

(1899–1923) *

Bernhard Hoetger Bernhard Hoetger (4 May 1874 in Dortmund – 18 July 1949 in Interlaken) was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement. Life Hoetger was the son of a Dortmund blacksmith, he studied sculpture in Detmold f ...

(1874–1949) * Heinrich Hofmann (1824–1911) *

Ludwig von Hofmann Ludwig von Hofmann (17 August 1861 – 23 August 1945) was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolism (arts), Symbolist styles. His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1928 S ...

(1861–1945) *

Margret Hofheinz-Döring Margret Hofheinz-Döring (20 May 1910 in Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confl ...

(1910–1994) * Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) *

Otto Hofmann Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded ...

(1907–1996) *

Hans Holbein the Elder Hans Holbein the Elder ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Ältere; – 1524) was a German painter. Life Holbein was born in free imperial city of Augsburg (Germany), and died in Issenheim, Alsace (now France). He belonged to a celebrated family o ...

(c. 1460–1524) *

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered o ...

(c. 1497–1543) * Hans-Jörg Holubitschka (1960–2016) * Johann Evangelist Holzer (1709–1740) * Helene Holzman (1891–1968) *

Barbara Honigmann Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director. Honigmann is the daughter of Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her pa ...

(born 1949) * Theodor Horschelt (1829–1871) *

Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (22 August 1857–7 July 1916) was a German painter. She was known for her flower painting. Biography Hormuth was born on 22 August 1857 in Heidelberg. She studied painting with Ferdinand Keller. in 1882 she ma ...

(1857–1934) *

Theodor Hosemann Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Hosemann (24 September 1807, Brandenburg an der Havel – 15 October 1875, Berlin) was a German Genre art, genre painter, draftsman, illustrator and caricaturist. Life Hosemann was the son of an officer in t ...

(1807–1875) *

Woldemar Hottenroth Woldemar Hottenroth (20 August 1802, in Dresden – 6 September 1894, in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape and genre painter in the Late-Romantic style. Life His father worked as a servant for Queen Marie Amalie von Pfalz-Zweibr� ...

(1802–1894) *

Karl Hubbuch Karl Hubbuch (21 November 1891 – 26 December 1979) was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman associated with the New Objectivity. Life Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe and baptised in the Roman Catholic church. From 1908 to 1912, he studie ...

(1891–1979) *

Julius Hübner Rudolf Julius Benno Hübner (27 January 1806 – 7 November 1882) was a German historical painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was also known as a poet and the father of Emil Hübner, a distinguished classical scholar. Lif ...

(1806–1882) *

Ulrich Hübner Ulrich Hübner (17 June 1872, Berlin - 29 April 1932, Neubabelsberg) was a German painter. Biography He was born into a family of artists and began his academic training 1892 in Karlsruhe with Robert Poetzelberger, Gustav Schönleber, and Car ...

(1872–1932) *

Juergen von Huendeberg Juergen von Huendeberg (aka Hans-Otto Maximilian von Huendeberg, HOMJ von Huendeberg, or simply “Iwan”; 10 April 1922 – 21 August 1996) was a German painter often associated with the abstract art of the post-war years. Early Years, Nazi Re ...

(1922–1996) * Carl Hummel (1821–1907) *

Maria Innocentia Hummel Maria Innocentia Hummel (born Berta Hummel; 21 May 1909 – 6 November 1946) was a German Franciscan sister and artist. She is noted for her paintings which were the basis for Hummel figurines. Early life Born in Massing, Germany, as Berta Hum ...

(1909–1946) *

Otto Hupp Hermann Joseph Otto Hubert August Constantin Hupp (May 21, 1859 – January 31, 1949) 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. Life a ...

(1859–1949) * Karl Hurm (1930–2019) * Auguste Hüssener (1789–1877)

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Berthold Imhoff Count Berthold von Imhoff (January 14, 1868 – December 14, 1939), was an artist known for his religious murals and paintings. Born in Germany in 1868, Imhoff immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in Reading, Pennsylvania ...

(1868–1939) *

Jörg Immendorff Jörg Immendorff (14 June 1945 – 28 May 2007) was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement ''Neue Wilde''. Early life and education Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, n ...

(1945–2007) *

Caspar Isenmann Caspar (or Kaspar) Isenmann (french: Gaspard Isenmann) was a Gothic painter from Alsace. As the municipal painter of his hometown Colmar and the creator of a major altarpiece for the prestigious St Martin's Church, he was an important represen ...

(1410–1484) (hypothetical) * Carl G. von Iwonski (1830–1912)

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Otto Reinhold Jacobi Otto Reinhold Jacobi (27 February 1812 8 February 1901) was a German-Canadian artist. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life and work Born in 1830 Königsberg, Jacobi studied in Berlin at the Royal Academy of Arts. He ...

(1812–1901) *

Paul Emil Jacobs Paul Emil Jacobs (August 20, 1802 in Gotha – January 6, 1866) was a German painter, noted for Orientalist themes, portraits and nudes. Life and career Jacobs, son of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the ...

(1802–1866) * Willy Jaeckel (1888–1944) *

Ferdinand Jagemann Ferdinand Jagemann (24 August 1780, Weimar – 9 January 1820, Weimar) was a German painter; known primarily for his portraits. Life He was the son of Christian Joseph Jagemann, the librarian for Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. ...

(1780–1820) * Gustav Jäger (1808–1871) *

Karl Jäger Karl Jäger (; 20 September 1888 – 22 June 1959) was a German mid-ranking official in the '' SS'' of Nazi Germany and '' Einsatzkommando'' leader who perpetrated acts of genocide during the Holocaust. Early life and career Jäger was born in Sc ...

(1888–1959) * Michael Jäger (born 1956) *

Angelo Jank Angelo Jank (30 October 1868 in Munich – 9 October 1940 in Munich) was a German animal painter, illustrator and member of the Munich Secession. He was the son of the German painter Christian Jank and specialized in scenes with horses and rider ...

(1868–1940) *

Christian Jank Christian Jank (15 July 1833 – 25 November 1888) was a German scenic painter and stage designer. Jank was born in Munich, the Bavarian capital. Here he originally worked as a scenic painter. Among other things he was involved in the scenery f ...

(1833–1888) * Peter Janssen (1844–1908) * Georg Jauss (1867–1922) *

Carl Ludwig Jessen Carl Ludwig Jessen (22 February 1833 – 4 January 1917) was a North Frisian painter. Today he is known as the "Frisian painter" (german: Friesenmaler and da, frisermaler) in Denmark and Germany. As a Naturalist painter he is notable for depict ...

(1833–1917) * Ernst Jordan (1883–1948) * Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887) *

Tina Juretzek Tina Juretzek (born 25 November 1952 in Leipzig) is a German painter. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günter Grote and lives and works in Düsseldorf. Biography Juretzek spent her first six years in Thale, Harz. Her mothe ...

(born 1952) *

Manfred W. Jürgens Manfred W. Jürgens (born November 19, 1956) is a German people, German Painting, painter and photographer. Life and work Jürgens was born at Mecklenburg in northeastern Germany and spent his childhood there. After attending the Polytechnic Sec ...

(born 1956) *

Paul Juvenel the Elder Paul Juvenel the Elder (1579–1643) was a German painter. Biography He was born in Nuremberg in December 1579, into a family of Flemish origin. Nicolas Juvenel I was born in Dunkirk, County of Flanders, Flanders, and between 1550 and 1554 worke ...

(1579–1643)

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Johann Matthias Kager Johann Matthias Kager (1566–1634) was a German historical painter. Biography He was born at the Bavarian capital Munich. He was originally a pupil of Peter Candid, Pieter de Witte (Candito), but went to Rome when young, and spent several ...

(1566–1634) * Leo Kahn (1894–1983) * Johannes Kahrs (born 1965) *

Aris Kalaizis Aris Kalaizis ( gr, Άρης Καλαϊζής, born 1966 in Leipzig) is a figurative Greek-German painter. He is associated with the New Leipzig School. Art price of German Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken. Biography Aris Kalaizis grew up, as the so ...

(born 1966) * Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth (1855–1928) * Maria Countess von Kalckreuth (1857–1897) * Patrick von Kalckreuth (1892–1970) *

Friedrich Kallmorgen Friedrich Kallmorgen (15 November 1856 in Hamburg – 2 June 1924 in Karlsruhe) was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes. Biography His father was an architect. From 1862 to 1863, he received his first d ...

(1856–1924) *

Arthur Kampf Arthur Kampf (28 September 1864 in Aachen – 8 February 1950 in Castrop-Rauxel) was a List of German painters, German painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life Kampf studied under Peter Janssen, among others, ...

(1864–1950) *

Albert Kappis Albert Kappis (20 August 1836, Wildberg - 18 September 1914, Stuttgart) was a German painter and draughtsperson specializing in landscapes and genre motifs. Biography From 1850 to 1857, Kappis trained as a lithographer in his uncle's work ...

(1836–1914) * Suzan Emine Kaube (born 1942) * Arthur Kaufmann (1888–1971) * Hugo Kauffmann (1844–1915) *

Friedrich Kaulbach Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach (8 July 1822 – 17 September 1903) was a German Painting, painter from Bad Arolsen, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont. His father was Christian Kaulbach (1777–1847), a cabinet maker in Ar ...

(1822–1903) *

Friedrich August von Kaulbach Friedrich August von Kaulbach (2 June 1850 in Munich – 26 July 1920 in Ohlstadt, Germany) was a German portraitist and historical painter. Biography He was born to a family that included several well known artists and began his studies wit ...

(1850–1920) *

Hermann von Kaulbach Hermann von Kaulbach (26 July 1846 in Munich – 9 December 1909 in Munich) was a German painter of the Munich School. Life Kaulbach was the son of painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach. He was originally a medical student at the Ludwig Maximili ...

(1846–1909) *

Wilhelm von Kaulbach Wilhelm von Kaulbach (15 October 18057 April 1874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography E ...

(1805–1874) * Ferdinand Keller (1842–1922) *

Moritz Kellerhoven Moritz Kellerhoven (1758 - 15 December 1830) was a German portrait painter and etcher. Life Kellerhoven was born in the Altenrath district of Troisdorf. He was still very young when his father died, so he was placed in the care of his maternal ...

(1758–1830) * George Kenner (1888–1971) *

Wolfgang Kermer Wolfgang Kermer (born 18 May 1935 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a German art historian, artist, art educator, author, editor, curator of exhibitions, art collector and professor. From 1971 to 1984 he was repeatedly elected Rector of the State Aca ...

(born 1935) *

Marie von Keudell Marie von Keudell (1838–1918) was a German painter known for her landscape painting. Biography Keudell was born on 16 July 1838 in Launicken, East Prussia. She studied with , and Otto von Kameke in Berlin. Keudell exhibited her work at the ...

(1838–1918) *

Chaim Kiewe Chaim Kiewe (Hebrew: חיים קיוה; born October 8, 1912 in Dlottowen, German Empire – died May 12, 1983 in Bat Yam, Israel) was an Israeli artist. Biography Chaim (Egon) Kiewe was born in the village Dlottowen (Eastern Prussia) in 1912. H ...

(1912–1983) * Wilhelm Kimmich (1897–1986) *

Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenb ...

(1953–1997) * Frank Kirchbach (1859–1912) * Günther C. Kirchberger (1928–2010) *

Alexander Kircher Alexander Kircher (Trieste, 26 February 1867 – 16 September 1939, Berlin) was an Austrian-German marine and landscape painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia while other ...

(1867–1939) * Otto Kirchner (1887–1960) *

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century ...

(1880–1938) * Johanna Kirsch (1856–1907) *

Konrad Klapheck Konrad Klapheck (born February 10, 1935) is a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combines features of Surrealism and Pop art. He was born in Düsseldorf. From 1954 to 1956 he studied painting under Bruno Goller at the Kun ...

(born 1935) *

Mati Klarwein Abdul Mati Klarwein (April 9, 1932 – March 7, 2002) was a French Painting, painter of German origin best known for his works used on the covers of music albums. Personal life Mati Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Weimar Republic, Germany. His ...

(1932–2002) * Anna Klein (1883–1941) * Johann Adam Klein (1792–1875) * Richard Klein (1890–1967) *

Paul Kleinschmidt Paul Kleinschmidt, (1883–1949) was a German painter. Biography Kleinschmidt was born in Bublitz, Pomerania, German Empire (modern Bobolice, Poland). As a student of art at the Berlin Akademie Kleinschmidt's greatest influence was Anton von ...

(1883–1949) *

Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Le ...

(1784–1864) *

Heinrich Kley Heinrich Kley (15 April 1863 in Karlsruhe – 1945 in Munich) was a German illustrator, editorial illustrator and painter. Kley studied "practical arts" at the Karlsruhe Akademie and finished his studies in Munich. His early works were conventio ...

(1863–1945) * Max Klinger (1857–1920) * Friedrich August von Klinkowström (1778–1835) * Hans Kloss (1938–2018) *

Robert Klümpen Robert Klümpen (born 1973 in Issum, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German painter. In 2001, he graduated from Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, where he studied with A. R. Penck and . He lives and works in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; oft ...

(born 1973) *

Georg Klusemann Georg Klusemann (13 May 1942, in Essen – 4 May 1981, in Pisa) was a prolific artist and a Children's literature, children's book author. Although he died at age 38, Klusemann left behind an extensive body of work. Art Georg Klusemann belon ...

(1942–1981) * Karl Knabl (1850–1904) *

Hermann Knackfuß Hermann Knackfuss (german: Hermann Knackfuß) (August 11, 1848, Wissen, Rhenish Prussia – May 17, 1915) was a German painter and writer on art. He is known for his historical paintings, but his most-recognized work is his illustration on behalf ...

(1848–1915) *

Johann Zacharias Kneller John Zacharias (Zachary) Kneller, originally Johann Zacharias Kniller (15 December 1642, Lübeck – 1702, London), was a German Baroque painter active in England, best known as the brother of Sir Godfrey Kneller. His youngest brother was organ ...

(1642–1702) *

Heinrich Knirr Heinrich Knirr (2 September 1862 – 26 May 1944) was an Austrian-born German painter, known for genre scenes and portraits, although he also did landscapes and still-lifes. He is best-known for creating the official portrait of Adolf Hitler fo ...

(1862–1944) *

Imi Knoebel Imi Knoebel (/i:mi: kno:ʊbəl/) (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel; 1940) is a German artist. Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his ...

(born 1940) * Hugo Knorr (1834–1904) *

Wilhelm von Kobell Wilhelm von Kobell (6 April 1766 – 15 July 1853) was a German painter, printmaker and teacher. Biography Kobell was born in Mannheim, the son of Ferdinand Kobell, a landscape painter who cited Claude Lorrain as his influence. Wilhelm's in ...

(1766–1853) *

Martin Kober Martin Kober (also ''Chober, Cober, Coeber, Khober, Koeber, Koebner'', pl, Marcin Kober) (ca. 1550 – before 1598) was a portrait painter and court painter to different Central European monarchs - King Stephen Báthory, Rudolf II, Holy Roman ...

(~1550–~1598) *

Dora Koch-Stetter Dora Koch-Stetter (4 May 1881 – 16 January 1968) was a German landscape artist, portrait-painter and etcher. Life Dora Stetter already came into contact with art as a child. After the death of her husband and the retreat to Berlin in 1884, he ...

(1881–1968) (aka Dora Stetter) *

Robert Koehler Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 – April 23, 1917) was a German-born Painting, painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States. Biography Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until ...

(1850–1917) *

Matthias Koeppel (literally, ''strong German'', albeit with ''ck'' for ''k'', as dictated by the conventions of the variant) is an imagined language created by Matthias Koeppel, a German painter and poet and self-proclaimed ''Sprachkünstler'' (artist of language ...

(born 1937) * Wilhelm von Köln (1370s?) * Alois Kolb (1875–1942) *

Heinrich Christoph Kolbe Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

(1771–1836) *

Helmut Kolle Helmut Kolle (24 February 1899 – 17 November 1931) was a German painter who found major success in France in the 1920s, fusing the German Modernism, modernist style with that of French art, French painting. Kolle was born in Berlin-Charlotten ...

(1899–1931) * Kätte Kollwitz (1867-1945) *

Max Koner Max Johann Bernhard Koner (17 July 1854, Berlin – 7 July 1900, Berlin) was a German portraitist. Biography From 1873 to 1878, he studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Eduard Daege, Anton von Werner and others. He spent som ...

(1854–1900) * Leo von König (1871–1944) *

Emma Körner Emma Sophie Körner (born 20 April 1788 in Dresden, in the then Electorate of Saxony; died 1815 in Dresden, then Kingdom of Saxony) was a German painter, a pupil of the Swiss painter Anton Graff, and sister of the poet and soldier Carl Theod ...

(1788–1815) * Rudolf Kortokraks (1928–2014) *

Theodor Kotsch Theodor Kotsch (January 6, 1818 – November 27, 1884) was a German landscape Painting, painter. Kotsch was born in Hanover. He went to Munich in 1839, where he developed his style by studying other masters and through landscape painting. In 18 ...

(1818–1884) * Johann Peter Krafft (1780–1856) *

Lambert Krahe Wilhelm Lambert Krahe (15 March 1712, Düsseldorf – 2 November 1790, Düsseldorf) was a German history painter and art collector. Life He was the son of a government clerk. Nothing is known of his early education. He found a patron in Ferdi ...

(1712–1790) *

August von Kreling August von Kreling (May 23, 1818 – April 23, 1876) was a German sculptor born in Osnabrück. He studied with Peter von Cornelius, and in 1853 became director of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He became a member of the Munich Academy in 187 ...

(1819–1876) * Robert Kretschmer (1812–1872) *

Conrad Faber von Kreuznach Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (c. 1500 in Kreuznach, Germany – between 10 September 1552 and 15 May 1553 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German painter and woodcuts designer formerly known as Master of Holzhausen-portraits.Brücker, Wolfgang, � ...

(c. 1500–1552/3) *

Louis Krevel Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Krevel, known as Louis Krevel (19 September 1801, Braunschweig - 14 May 1876, Trier) was a German portrait painter of the Biedermeier#Visual arts, Biedermeier period. Biography His father, Johann Hilarius Krevel (17 ...

(1801–1876) *

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Franz Krüger Franz Krüger (10 September 1797, in Großbadegast, Köthen, Anhalt – 21 January 1857, in Berlin), known as Pferde-Krüger ("Horse-Krüger"), was a German (Prussian) painter and lithographer. He was best known for his romantic and lively ...

(1797–1857) *

Sebastian Krüger Sebastian Krüger (born June 30, 1963, in Hamelin, Germany) is a German artist. After studying free painting with Prof. Dörfler at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts he made a stunning reputation as the designer of a number of cover spre ...

(born 1963) * Christiane Kubrick (born 1932) *

Gerhard von Kügelgen Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen (6 February 1772 – 27 March 1820) was a German painter, noted for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Imperial Ac ...

(1772–1820) * Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832) *

Wilhelm von Kügelgen Wilhelm Georg Alexander von Kügelgen (20 November 1802, in St.Petersburg – 25 May 1867, in Ballenstedt) was a German portrait and history painter, writer, and chamberlain at the Court of Anhalt-Bernburg. He is best known for his posthumo ...

(1802–1867) * Gotthardt Kuehl (1850–1915) *

Ingo Kühl Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953) is a German painter, sculptor and architect. Life Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen. Afte ...

(born 1953) *

Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (September 18, 1865 – February 11, 1926) was a German painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images. After illustrating the books of Alfred Brehm, he travelled to German East Africa to observe ...

(1865–1926) *

Konrad Kujau Konrad Paul Kujau (27 June 1938 – 12 September 2000) was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million (€2,421,020 in 2020 terms, adjusted for ...

(1938–2000) *

Friedrich Kunath Friedrich Kunath (born 1974) is a German visual artist who lives in Los Angeles. He was born in Chemnitz, East Germany, and has had solo exhibitions at the Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort (2016), Schinkel Pavillon (2011), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles ...

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Curt Lahs Curt Lahs (15 January 1893 Düsseldorf - 11 June 1958 in Berlin) was a German painter and arts professor. Timeline He exhibited at Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf in 1919. In 1921, he was a member of the group The Young Rheinländers Exhibitio ...

(1893–1958) * Mark Lammert (born 1960) *

Christian Landenberger Christian Adam Landenberger (7 April 1862, Ebingen - 13 February 1927, Stuttgart) was a German Impressionist painter and a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He is especially known for his landscapes. Life He was the secon ...

(1862–1927) * Friedrich Lange (1834–1875) *

Joseph Lange Joseph Lange (Würzburg, 1 April 1751 – Vienna, 17 September 1831) was an actor and amateur painter of the 18th century. Through his marriage to Aloysia Weber, he was the brother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life His first marriage, ...

(1751–1831) * Julius Lange (1817–1878) *

Arthur Langhammer Arthur Langhammer (July 6, 1854 – July 4, 1901) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator best known for rural genre paintings. Biography Arthur Langhammer was born in Lützen, Germany. He studied art first at the Leipzig Art Academy ...

(1854–1901) * Rainer Maria Latzke (born 1950) *

Richard Lauchert Richard Lauchert, a Germany, German portrait painter, was born at Sigmaringen in 1823. He studied at Munich in 1839, went for improvement to Paris in 1845, and settled at Berlin in 1860. He was mostly employed by the courts of Germany, England, ...

(1823–1868) * Paul Lautensack (1478–1558) * Rudolf Lehmann (1819–1905) * Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943) *

Fridolin Leiber This is a list of German painters. A > second column was into info box --> * Hans von Aachen (1552–1615) * Aatifi (born 1965) * Karl Abt (1899–1985) * Tomma Abts (born 1967) * Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910) * Oswald Achenbach (1827� ...

(1853–1912) *

Ulrich Leman Ulrich Leman (15 October 1885 – 22 April 1988) was a German painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he became interested in painting at an early age and in 1919 he co-founded the group "The Young Rheinland" with other young painters of the day, including ...

(1885–1988) *

August Lemmer August Lemmer (1862 – date of death unknown) was a German artist. Lemmer was born in Deutz, Rhenish Prussia. After studying at the art academy of Karlsruhe from 1888–92 he remained in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Lemme ...

(1862–?) *

Franz von Lenbach Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach (13 December 1836 – 6 May 1904), was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society ...

(1836–1904) *

Reinhold Lepsius Reinhold Lepsius (14 June 1857 – 16 March 1922) was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist. Biography He was born in Berlin, the son of Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), professor at the Frederick William University ...

(1857–1922) * Sabine Lepsius (1864–1942) *

Karl Friedrich Lessing Karl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe) was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biograp ...

(1808–1880) * Wolfgang Lettl (1919–2008) * August Leu (1818–1897) *

Emanuel Leutze Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816July 18, 1868) was a German-American history painter best known for his 1851 painting '' Washington Crossing the Delaware''. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography Leutze was born ...

(1816–1868) *

Sophie Ley Sophie Ley (1849–1918) was a German painter. Biography Ley was born in 1849 in Bodmann am Bodensee, Germany. She studied painting with Hans Gude and at the Academia Artium Stuttgardens. She also studied with Eugen Bracht at the Academy of ...

(1849–1918) * Wilhelm Lichtenheld (1817–1891) *

Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...

(1847–1935) * Adolf Heinrich Lier (1826–1882) * Hermann Linde (1863–1923) *

Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther, born Walther Heinrich Eduard Linde (16 August 1868, Lübeck - 23 May 1939, Travemünde) was a German painter and illustrator. Life He was the son of Hermann Linde the Elder, a pharmacist and pioneering photograp ...

(1868–1939) * Richard Lindner (1901–1978) *

Karl Friedrich Lippmann Karl Friedrich Lippmann (also "Carl Fr. Lippmann" and "FK Lippmann"; 27 October 1883, in Offenbach am Main – 30 May 1957) was a German painter of the New Objectivity, known for landscapes and portraits. Life Karl Friedrich Lippmann was o ...

(1883–1957) * Emmy Lischke (1860–1919) * Clara Lobedan (1840–1918) * Stefan Lochner (c. 1410–1451) *

Käthe Loewenthal Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal (27 March 1878, in Berlin – 26 April 1942, in Izbica) was a German Modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western so ...

(1878–1942) *

August Löffler August Löffler (May 24, 1822 – January 19, 1866) was a German Painting, painter. Löffler was born in Munich, and studied under Heinrich Adam and Carl Rottmann, and first painted scenes of Isarthal, near Munich. In 1846 he traveled to Istria ...

(1822–1866) *

Ludwig von Löfftz Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy o ...

(1845–1910) * Max Lohde (1845–1868) *

Otto Lohmüller Otto Lohmüller (born 4 February 1943 in Gengenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German figurative painter, sculptor and book illustrator. His art typically features images of early adolescent males, both clothed and nude, although in his ...

(born 1943) *

Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (born ''Anna Frieda Wächtler''; 4 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, in Nazi Germany. She became mentally il ...

(1899–1940) *

Bernard Lokai Bernard Lokai (born 5 September 1960) is a German painter. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of Gerhard Richter, and part of the Young Figuratives movement. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany. In ...

(born 1960) *

David Lorenz David Lorenz (*March 21, 1856 in Ogrosen, a part of Vetschau, Brandenburg - April 5, 1907 in Ogrosen) was a German Painting, painter. Biography Lorenz lived in Ogrosen for 32 years, after which he moved to Nürnberg, where he lived for eight ye ...

(1856–1907) *

Heinrich Lossow Heinrich Lossow (10 March 1843 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria – 19 May 1897 in Schleissheim, Austria-Hungary) was a German genre painter and illustrator. He was a prolific pornographer in his spare time. Biography Heinrich Lossow's father was ...

(1843–1897) *

Károly Lotz Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a Germans, German-Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter. Career Karl Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Taunus, Höhe, Germany, the 7th an ...

(1833–1904) *

Margarethe Loewe-Bethe Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859-1932) was a German painter. Biography Loewe-Bethe née Loewe was born in 1859 in the Province of Silesia. She was married to Erich Bethe (1863-1940). Loewe-Bethe exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 18 ...

(1859–1932) * Auguste Ludwig (1834–1901) * Friedrich Ludwig (1895–1970) * Jules Lunteschütz (1822–1893) *

Markus Lüpertz Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggest ...

(born 1941) * Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (1863–1923) * Arnold Lyongrün (1871–1935)

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Thilo Maatsch Thilo Friedrich Maatsch (born 13 August 1900 in Braunschweig; died 20 March 1983 in Königslutter) was a German artist and an exponent of abstract art, constructivism and concrete art. Life Whilst visiting exhibitions in his youth he came in ...

(1900–1983) *

Heinz Mack Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931) is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for ...

(born 1931) * August Macke (1887–1914) *

Fritz Mackensen Fritz Mackensen (born 8 April 1866 in Greene, near Kreiensen, Duchy of Brunswick – 12 May 1953 in Bremen) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting and Art Nouveau. He was a friend of Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende, an ...

(1866–1953) * Josef Madlener (1881–1967) *

Alfred Mahlau Alfred Mahlau (21 June 1894 – 22 January 1967) German painter, illustrator and teacher. Biography Alfred Mahlau was born in Berlin on 21 June 1894. He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass ...

(1894–1967) *

Carl Malchin Carl Wilhelm Christian Malchin (14 May 1838, Kröpelin - 23 January 1923, Schwerin) was a German landscape painter and art conservator. Life His father was a member of the Mecklenburg legislature. He attended the Realschule in Rostock, then w ...

(1838–1923) *

Christian Mali Christian Friedrich Mali (6 October 1832, Darthuizen (near Utrecht) – 1 October 1906, Munich) was a German painter and art professor. His older brother, Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali (1828–1865) was also a painter. Life Mali was the youn ...

(1832–1906) *

Lothar Malskat Lothar Malskat (May 3, 1913 – February 10, 1988) was a German painter and art restorer who repainted medieval frescoes of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, critically damaged during WWII. Life and career Malskat was a painter from Königsber ...

(1913–1988) *

Jeanne Mammen Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter and illustrator of the German art#Weimar period, Weimar period. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity and Symbolism (arts), Symbolism movements. She is best known ...

(1890–1976) * Henriette Manigk (born 1968) *

Johann Christian von Mannlich Eren Yeager(2 October 1741 – 3 January 1822) was a German painter and architect. Early life, family and education Von Mannlich was born in Strasbourg in 1741, the son of Konrad von Mannlich, court painter to Christian IV, Duke of Zweibr� ...

(1741–1822) *

Jean Mannheim Jean Mannheim (November 18, 1863 – September 6, 1945) was a German-born American artist and educator, known for his California Impressionist paintings. He was active in Decatur, Illinois and Pasadena, California. About Jean Mannheim was ...

(1863–1945) German-born American *

Ludwig Manzel Karl Ludwig Manzel (3 June 1858, Neu Kosenow – 20 June 1936, Berlin) was a German sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Life His father was a tailor and his mother was a midwife. The family moved twice, first to Boldekow then, in 1867, to An ...

(1858–1936) * Franz Marc (1880–1916) *

Hans von Marées Hans von Marées (24 December 1837 – 5 June 1887) was a German painter. Initially specialising in portraiture he later turned to mythological subjects. He spent the last years of his life in Italy. Life Marées was born into a banking family ...

(1837–1887) *

Carl von Marr Carl von Marr (February 14, 1858 – July 10, 1936) was an American-born German painter whose work encompassed religious and mythological subjects, genre, and portraits. He was also a professor of art in Munich. Biography He was born in Mi ...

(1858–1936) *

Jacob Marrel Jacob Marrel (1613/1614 – 11 November 1681) was a German still life painter active in Utrecht (city), Utrecht during the Dutch Golden Age. Biography Jacob Marrel was born in Frankenthal. He moved with his family in 1624 to Frankfurt, where he ...

(1613/4?–1681) *

Johannes Martini Johannes Martini (c. 1440 – late 1497 or early 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Life He was born in Brabant around 1440, but information about his early life is scanty. He probably received his early training in Fla ...

(1866–1935) *

Master of the Arboga altarpiece The Master of the Arboga altarpiece was an artist working in Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübec ...

(fl. 1490–1525) *

Master of the Drapery Studies The Master of the Drapery Studies (german: Meister der Gewandstudien), also known as Master of the Coburg Roundels (german: Meister der Coburger Rundblätter) is the notname given to the "very productive" and "multifaceted" late 15th-century aut ...

(Heinrich Lützelmann) (fl. 1470–1500) *

Master of the Karlsruhe Passion The Master of the Karlsruhe Passion is the notname of a German painter of the late Gothic period active in the Upper Rhine. Very influential on other painters in the region, he may be identified with the Strasbourg painter Hans Hirtz. He is name ...

(Hans Hirtz?) (fl. 1421–1463) * Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece (fl. 1475–1510) *

Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominati ...

(1893–1986) * Louis Mayer (1791–1843) *

Jonathan Meese Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also ...

(born 1970) * Lothar Meggendorfer (1847–1925) *

Ludwig Meidner Ludwig Meidner (18 April 1884 – 14 May 1966) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker born in Bernstadt, Silesia. Meidner is best known for his painted, drawn, and printed portraits and landscapes, but is especially noted for h ...

(1884–1966) *

Else Meidner Else Meidner (born Else Meyer; 2 September 1901 – 7 May 1987) was a German-Jewish painter. Biography Meidner was born in Berlin and studied there between 1918 and 1925 before spending two years in Cologne. In 1927 she married the painter L ...

(1901–1987) *

Georg Meistermann Georg Meistermann (June 16, 1911 – June 12, 1990) was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe. From 1930, Meistermann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Wern ...

(1911–1990) *

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...

(c. 1430–1494) *

Peter Menne Peter Menne (born 1960 in Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German production designer, stage designer, painter and musician. Career Menne studied Fine Arts and Stage Design at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf under Tony Cragg ...

(born 1960) *

Carlo Mense Carlo Mense (May 13, 1886 – August 11, 1965) was a German artist, associated at various times with the Düsseldorf school of painting, Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity. Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at th ...

(1886–1965) *

Adolph Menzel Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 18159 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of t ...

(1815–1905) * Joseph Anton Merz (1681–1750) *

Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt (30 May 1858, in Bamberg – 29 October 1915, in Munich) was a German painter, illustrator and watercolorist; noted for genre and historical scenes, most of which include horses. Biography He came from a family of ...

(1858–1915) *

Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (7 January 1808, Danzig – 18 January 1879, Berlin) was a German painter.* Biography Meyerheim came from a family of artists with a long history in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). He received his first training fr ...

(1808–1879) *

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (13 July 1842 – 14 September 1915) was a German painter and graphic artist. He did portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals. Life Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July ...

(1842–1915) *

Abraham Mignon Abraham Mignon or Minjon (21 June 164027 March 1679), was a still life painter.Abraham Mignon
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(1640–1679) * Carl Julius Milde (1803–1875) *

Amud Uwe Millies Amud or Amoud ( so, Camuud, ar, عمود) is an ancient, ruined town in the Awdal region of Somaliland.Damtew Teferra, ''African higher education: an international reference handbook'', (Indiana University Press: 2003) Named after its patron Sai ...

(1932–2008) *

Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. Her work is noted for its intensity and its blunt, unapologetic humanity, and for the many self-portraits th ...

(1876–1907) *

Manfred Mohr Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981. Life and career Mohr started his career as an action painter and ...

(born 1938) *

Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern (29 September 1805 – 27 February 1867) was a German landscape painter. Morgenstern is regarded as one of the pioneers in Germany of early Realism in painting. He gained this reputation in Hamburg 1826-1829 ...

(1805–1867) *

Wilhelm Morgner Wilhelm Morgner (27 January 1891 – 16 August 1917) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. Biography His father was a former military band musician who later became a railroad worker. His mother was artistically inclined and wo ...

(1891–1917) *

Sabine Moritz Sabine Moritz (born 1969 in Quedlinburg) is a German painter and graphic designer. She is married to Gerhard Richter. Life and work Sabine Moritz was born as the daughter of a chemist in East Germany. From 1973 to 1981 she lived together with he ...

(born 1969) * Friedrich Mosbrugger (1804–1830) *

Adolf Mosengel Adolf Mosengel (1 January 1837 – 12 June 1885) was a landscape painter from Hamburg, Germany. He initially built a reputation painting Alpine scenes, and later turned to scenes from Westphalia. Biography Mosengel was born in Hamburg. From 1854 ...

(1837–1885) *

Georg Muche Georg Muche (8 May 1895 – 26 March 1987) was a German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher. Early life and education Georg Muche was born on 8 May 1895 in Querfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and grew up in the Rhön ...

(1895–1987) * Heinrich Mücke (1806–1891) *

Otto Mueller Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement. Life and work Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Betw ...

(1874–1930) * Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930) * Georg Mühlberg (1863–1925) * Fritz Mühlenweg (1898–1961) * Andreas Müller (painter), Andreas Müller (1811–1890) * Heiko Müller (born 1968) * Maler Müller (1749–1825) * Otto Müller (painter), Otto Müller (1898–1979) * Victor Müller (1829–1871) * Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) * Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) * Gustav Mützel (1839–1893) * Johan van den Mynnesten (c. 1440–1504)

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* Charles Christian Nahl (1818–1878) * Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833–1889) * Thomas von Nathusius (1866–1904) * August Natterer (1868–1933) * Julius Naue (1835–1907) * Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968) * Carl Nebel (1805–1855) * Otto Nebel (1892–1973) * Bernhard von Neher (1806–1886) * Rolf Nesch (1893–1975) * Caspar Netscher (1639–1684) * Gert Neuhaus (born 1939) * Andrea Neumann (1969–2020) * Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (1806–1882) * Jo Niemeyer (born 1946) * Wilhelm Theodor Nocken (1830–1905) * Emil Nolde (1867–1956) * Franz Nölken (1884–1918) * Bernt Notke (1435–1508/09?) * Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944)

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* Franz Ignaz Oefele (1721–1797) * Ernst Erwin Oehme (1831–1907) * Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797–1855) * August Friedrich Oelenhainz (1745–1804) * Theobald von Oer (1807–1885) * Hans Olde (1855–1917) * Friedrich von Olivier (1791–1859) * Walter Ophey (1882–1930) * Ernst Oppler (1867–1929) * David Ostrowski (born 1981) * Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869)

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* Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723) * Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) * Otto Pankok (1893–1966) * Louise von Panhuys (1763–1844) * Jürgen Partenheimer (born 1947) * Eduard Pechuel-Loesche (1840–1913) * Werner Peiner (1897–1984) * A. R. Penck (1939–2017) * Carl Gottlieb Peschel (1798–1879) * Johann Anton de Peters (1725–1795) * Heinrich Petersen-Angeln (1850–1906) * Wolfgang Petrick (born 1939) * Johann Baptist Pflug (1785–1866) * Martin Erich Philipp (1887–1978) * Otto Piene (1928–2014) * Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911) * Bruno Piglhein (1848–1894) * Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826–1886) * Hartmut Piniek (born 1950) * Theodor Pixis (1831–1907) * Oscar Pletsch (1830–1888) * Hermann Pleuer (1863–1911) * Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907) * Alois Plum (born 1935) * Tobias Pock (1609–1683) * Leon Pohle (1841–1908) * Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) * Heinrich Pommerencke (1821–1873) * Eduard Wilhelm Pose (1812–1878) * Michael Mathias Prechtl (1926–2003) * Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737) * Hermann Prell (1854–1922) * Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918) * Heimrad Prem (1934–1978) * Johann Georg Primavesi (1774–1855) * Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) * Doramaria Purschian (1890–1972)

Q

* Franz Quaglio (1844–1920) * Simon Quaglio (1795–1878) * Silvia Quandt (born 1937) * Fritz Quant (1888–1933) * Otto Quante (1875–1947) * Curt Querner (1904–1976) * Tobias Querfurt (1660–1734)

R

* Doris Raab (1851–1933) * Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–1899) * Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763–1840) * Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866) * Lilo Ramdohr (1913–2013) * Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978) * Neo Rauch (born 1960) * Robert Hermann Raudner (1854–1915) * Karl Raupp (1837–1918) * Christopher Rave (1881–1933) * Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967) * Anita Rée (1885–1933) * Willy Reetz (1892–1963) * Theodor Rehbenitz (1791–1861) * Elke Rehder (born 1953) * Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893) * Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719–1793) * Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825) * Robert Reinick (1805–1852) * Carl Reinhardt (1818–1877) * Karl Rettich (painter), Karl Lorenz Rettich (1841–1904) * Moritz Retzsch (1779–1857) * Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (1794–1865) * Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965) * Gustav Richter (artist), Gustav Richter (1823–1884) * Hans Richter (artist), Hans Richter (1888–1976) * Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) * Gerhard Richter (born 1932) * Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) * August Riedel (1799–1883) * Franz Riepenhausen (1786–1831) * Johannes Riepenhausen (1787–1860) * Johann Christoph Rincklake (1764–1813) * Joachim Ringelnatz (1883–1934) * Wilhelm Ripe (1818–1885) * Otto Ritschl (1860–1944) * Paul Ritter (painter), Paul Ritter (1829–1907) * Günter Rittner (1927–2020) * Lorenz Ritter (1832–1921) * Theodor Rocholl (1854–1933) * Carl Röchling (1855–1920) * Bernhard Rode (1725–1797) * Hermen Rode (c. 1468–c. 1504) * Carl Rodeck (1841–1909) * Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937) * Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) * Julius Roeting (1822–1896) * Johann Martin von Rohden (1778–1868) * Stefan Roloff (born 1953) * Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685) * Johann Melchior Roos (1663–1731) * Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706) * Theodor Roos (1638–1698) * Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813–1881) * Walter Alfred Rosam (1883–1916) * Mike Rose (painter), Mike Rose (1932–2006) * Waldemar Rösler (1882–1916) * Kurt Roth (1899–1975) * Ferdinand Rothbart (1823–1899) * Johannes Rottenhammer (1564–1625) * Christian Ruben (1805–1875) * Dieter Rübsaamen (born 1937) * Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666–1742) * Hans Hinrich Rundt (c. 1660–c. 1750) * Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) * Heinrich von Rustige (1810–1900)

S

* Georg Saal (1817–1870) * Rolf Sackenheim (1921–2006) * Hubert Salentin (1822–1910) * Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) * Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688) * Georg Sauter (1866–1937) * Wilhelm Sauter (1896–1948) * Käte Schaller-Härlin (1877–1973) * Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968) * Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler (born 1956) * Auguste Schepp (1846–1905) * Osmar Schindler (1867–1927) * Adolf Schinnerer (1876–1949) * Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863) * Wilhelm Schirmer (1802–1866) * Eduard Schleich the Elder (1812–1874) * Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) * Thea Schleusner (1879–1964) * Hans-Jürgen Schlieker (1924–2004) * Eberhard Schlotter (1921–2014) * Torsten Schlüter (born 1959) * Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712–1775) * Joost Schmidt (1893–1948) * Julia Schmidt (born 1976) * Jürgen Schmitt (born 1949) * Max Schmidt (1818–1901) * Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (1920–2021) * Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) * Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen (1922-2014) * Marc Schmitz (born 1963) * Bertha Schrader (1845–1920) * Leopold Schmutzler (1864–1940) * Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853) * Paul Schneider (painter), Paul Schneider (1884–1969) * Sascha Schneider (1870–1927) * Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken (1876–1943) * Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872) * Otto Scholderer (1834–1902) * Georg Scholz (1890–1945) * Karl Schorn (1803–1850) * Ludwig Schongauer (c. 1440–1494) * Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (1609–1684) * Julius Schoppe (1795–1868) * Georg Schrimpf (1889–1938) * Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899) * Lothar Schreyer (1886–1966) * Hans Schröder (artist), Hans Schröder (1931–2010) * Werner Schramm (1898–1970) * Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (1904–1995) * Daniel Schultz (1615–1683) * Bernard Schultze (1915–2005) * Fritz W. Schulz (1884–1962) * Emil Schumacher (1912–1999) * Fritz Schwegler (1935–2014) * Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926) * Otto Schwerdgeburth (1835–1866) * Martel Schwichtenberg (1896–1945) * Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) * Lothar von Seebach (1853–1930) * Adolf Seel (1829–1907) * Else Sehrig-Vehling (1897–1994) * Louise Seidler (1786–1866) * Joseph Anton Settegast (1813–1890) * Christian Seybold (1695–1768) * Oskar Seyffert (1862–1940) * Daryush Shokof (born 1954) * Arthur Siebelist (1870–1945) * Clara Siewert (1862–1945) * Ludovike Simanowiz (1759–1827) * Richard Simon (painter), Richard Simon (1898–1993) * Franz Skarbina (1849–1910) * Dirk Skreber (born 1961) * Maria Slavona (1865–1931) * Max Slevogt (1868–1932) * Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805–1867) * Karl Rudolf Sohn (1845–1908) * Richard Sohn (1834–1912) * Wilhelm Sohn (1830–1899) * Alfred Sohn-Rethel (painter), Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1875–1958) * Else Sohn-Rethel (1853–1933) * Karli Sohn-Rethel (1882–1966) * Otto Sohn-Rethel (1877–1949) * Daniel Soreau (c. 1560–1619) * Isaak Soreau (1604–1644) * Michael Sowa (born 1945) * August Specht (1849–1923) * Friedrich Specht (1839–1909) * Erwin Speckter (1806–1835) * Johann Sperl (1840–1914) * Walter Spies (1895–1942) * Eugene Spiro (1874–1972) * Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885) * Hans Springinklee (c. 1490/5–c. 1540) * Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) * Anton Stankowski (1906–1998) * Christian W. Staudinger (born 1952) * Carl Steffeck (1818–1890) * Jakob Steinhardt (1887–1968) * Hermann Stenner (1891–1914) * David D. Stern (born 1956) * Robert Sterl (1867–1932) * Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858) * Franz Seraph Stirnbrand (c. 1788/94–1882) * Dora Stock (1760–1832) * Minna Stocks (1846–1928) * Curt Stoermer (1891–1976) * Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921) * Eva Stort (1855–1936) * Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657) * Willy Stöwer (1864–1931) * Paul Strecker (1898–1950) * Bernhard Strigel (c. 1461–1528) * Helene Marie Stromeyer (1834–1924) * Hermann Struck (1876–1944) * Franz von Stuck (1863–1928) * Fritz Stuckenberg (1881–1944) * Absolon Stumme (?–1499) * Emil Stumpp (1886–1941) * Helmut Sturm (1932–2008) * Rudolph Suhrlandt (1781–1862) * Florian Süssmayr (born 1963) * Stefan Szczesny (born 1951)

T

* Ruben Talberg (born 1964) * Wilhelm Ternite (1786–1871) * Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920) * Heinz Tetzner (1920–2007) * Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782) * Ludwig Thiersch (1825–1909) * Hans Thoma (1839–1924) * Paul Thumann (1834–1908) * Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722–1789) * Johann Jacob Tischbein (1725–1791) * Johann Valentin Tischbein (1715–1768) * Ernst Toepfer (1877–1955) * Christiaan Tonnis (born 1956) * Gero Trauth (born 1942) * Hann Trier (1915–1999) * Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917)

U

* Otto Ubbelohde (1867–1922) * Günther Uecker (born 1930) * Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636) * Fritz von Uhde (1848–1911) * Maria Uhden (1892–1918) * Fred Uhlman (1901–1985) * Lesser Ury (1861–1931) * Adolf Uzarski (1885–1970)

V

* Johannes Veit (1790–1854) * Philipp Veit (1793–1877) * Henry Vianden (1814–1899) * Clara Vogedes (1892–1983) * Hugo Vogel (painter), Hugo Vogel (1855–1934) * Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) * Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868) * Karl Völker (1889–1962) * Max Volkhart (1848–1924) * Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875) * Friedrich Voltz (1817–1886) * Johann Michael Voltz (1784–1858) * Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899–1962) * Wolf Vostell (1932–1998)

W

* Karl Wilhelm Wach (1787–1845) * Friedrich Wachenhusen (1859–1925) * Carl Wagner (painter), Carl Wagner (1796–1867) * Johann Salomon Wahl (1689–1765) * Paul Wallat (1879–1964) * Horst Walter (1936–2012) * Petrus Wandrey (1939–2012) * Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) * Max Peiffer Watenphul (1896–1976) * August Weber (1817–1873) * Felix Weber (artist), Felix Weber (born 1965) * Paul Weber (artist), Paul Weber (1823–1916) * Johannes Wechtlin (c. 1480–?) * Karl Weinmair (1906–1944) * Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758–1828) * Theodor Leopold Weller (1802–1880) * Gottlieb Welté (1745–1792) * Anton von Werner (1843–1915) * Eberhard Werner (1924–2002) * Brigitta Westphal (born 1944) * Friedrich Bernhard Westphal (1803–1844) * Christian Wilberg (1839–1882) * Ludwig Wilding (1927–2010) * August von Wille (1828–1887) * Michael Willmann (1630–1706) * Albert Windisch (1878–1967) * Fritz Winter (1905–1976) * Harald Winter (born 1953) * Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) * Hermann Wislicenus (1825–1899) * Adolf Wissel (1894–1973) * Johann Michael Wittmer (1802–1880) * Edmund Wodick (1816–1886) * Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869) * Karla Woisnitza (born 1952) * Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944) * Joseph Wolf (1820–1899) * Balduin Wolff (1819–1907) * Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) * Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1894–1974) * Walter Womacka (1925–2010) * Georg Philipp Wörlen (1886–1954) * Franz Wulfhagen (c. 1624–1670) * Paul Wunderlich (1927–2010) * Noah Wunsch (born 1970) * Nicholas Wurmser (1298–1367)

Z

* Erich Zander (art director), Erich Zander (1889–1965) * Herbert Zangs (1924–2003) * Johann Eleazar Zeissig (1737–1806) * Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450–c. 1519) * Wolfgang Zelmer (born 1948) * Alexander Zick (1845–1907) * Januarius Zick (1730–1797) * Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959) * Hans-Peter Zimmer (1936–1992) * Adolf Zimmermann (1799–1859) * Albert Zimmermann (1808–1888) * Clemens von Zimmermann (1788–1869) * Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680–1758) * Max Zimmermann (1811–1878) * Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815–1893) * Richard Zimmermann (1820–1875) * Robert Zimmermann (painter), Robert Zimmermann (1815–1864) * Thomas Zipp (born 1966) * Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941) * Anton Zwengauer (1810–1884) * Anton Georg Zwengauer (1850–1928) * Gustav Philipp Zwinger (1779–1819) * Oskar Zwintscher (1870–1916)

References

External links

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