This is a list of women artists who were born in

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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* Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer * Tomma Abts (born 1967), abstract painter *

Elisabeth von Adlerflycht Susanna Maria Rebecca Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (born von Riese; September 23, 1775 – March 15, 1846) was a Germans, German painter known for her cartographic illustration of the Rhine, Rhine Valley, the first in a genre of tourist maps known a ...

(1775–1846), painter * Anni Albers (1899–1994), German-American textile artist, printmaker *

Nykolai Aleksander Nykolai Aleksander (born 1978) is a German artist and a German Stellar Art Award recipient. Biography Nykolai Aleksander was born in Germany and emigrated to England in the late 1990s. In 2001 she began working with Andrew E. Maugham on his book, ...

(born 1978), digital artist * Elisabeth Andrae (1876–1945), painter * Annot (1894–1981), painter, art teacher, writer, pacifist * Clara Arnheim (1865–1942), painter * Ulrike Arnold (born 1950), artist *

Ursula Arnold Ursula Arnold (born Ursula Musche 10 March 1929 – died 24 May 2012) was a German photographer. Much of her best known work involves street scenes in Berlin and Leipzig produced during the German Democratic Republic years. Living under a one-pa ...

(1929–2012), photographer *

Irene Awret Irene Awret or Irene Spicker (1921–2014) was a German artist, author and Holocaust survivor. Biography Awret née Spicker was born on January 30, 1921, in Berlin, Germany. She was the youngest of three children. In 1937, as a result of the Nu ...

(1921–2014), artist, author and Holocaust survivor *

Eva Aschoff Eva Aschoff (26 April 1900 – 20 September 1969) was a German visual artist known for her bookbinding and calligraphy. Biography Aschoff was born in Göttingen on 26 April 1900. From 1921 to 1923 she attended the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart wher ...

(1900–1969), visual artist

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Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli, née Richter (21 May 1733–1809 or later), was a German Portrait miniature, miniaturist, Pastel, pastelist and court painter to the Polish kings. Early life and education Johanna was born on 21 May, 17 ...

(1733–1809 or later), miniaturist, pastelist and court painter *

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), painter * Bele Bachem (1916–2005), graphic artists, illustrator, stage designer and writer *

Nina Lola Bachhuber Nina Lola Bachhuber (born 1971) is a German contemporary artist working in the realm of sculpture, installation art and drawing. Nina Lola Bachhuber was born in Munich, Germany, and obtained her Masters of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für bilden ...

(born 1971), sculptor, installation artist, artist * Carola Baer-von Mathes (1857–1940), painter * Alma del Banco (1862–1943), modernist painter *

Tina Bara Tina Bara (born 18 March 1962, in Kleinmachnow) is a German photographer who began her career in the German Democratic Republic Her work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig ...

(born 1962), photographer *

Caroline Bardua Caroline Bardua (also Karoline Bardua; 11 November 1781 in Ballenstedt, Anhalt-Bernburg – 2 June 1864) was a German painter. She was one of the first middle-class women who was able to create an existence for herself as an independent artist. ...

(1781–1864), painter * Uta Barth (born 1958), photographer * Carla Bartheel (1902–1983), actress and photographer * Jeanna Bauck (1840–1926), painter * Karin Baumeister-Rehm (born 1971), painter * Mary Baumeister (born 1934), artist * Hilla Becher (1934–2015), photographer * Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), photographer * Gisela Beker (1932–2015), German-American painter * Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), photographer * Karin Baumeister-Rehm (1881–1964), painter and opera singer * Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920), painter *

Olga Beggrow-Hartmann Olga Fedorovna Beggrow-Hartmann (1862–1922) was a German-Russian painter. Biography Beggrow-Hartmann was born on 29 October 1862 in Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden. She studied art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Stuttgart where she was t ...

(1862–1922), German/Russian, painter *

Julia Behr Julia Behr (fl.1865–1890s) was a Berlin-born artist who settled in Britain and exhibited portrait paintings on a regular basis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Biography Behr was born in Berlin and arrived in London with a l ...

(fl.1865–1890s), portrait painter * Amalie Bensinger (1809–1889), religious painter * Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967), painter *

Josefa Berens-Totenohl Josefa Berens-Totenohl (30 March 1891, in Grevenstein, Sauerland – 6 June 1969) was a German writer and painter. She was the daughter of a blacksmith. First she became a teacher, but later worked as a writer and painter and made elaborate tap ...

(1891–1969), writer and painter *

Ella Bergmann-Michel Ella Bergmann-Michel (20 October 1896 – 8 August 1971) was a German abstract artist, photographer and documentary filmmaker. An early student of constructivist art in Germany, her contributions to modern abstract art are often forgotten in Amer ...

(1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker *

Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Early life and education Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Lucian Bernhard was known for his poster and typeface ...

(1905–2006), German-born American photographer *

Lis Beyer Elisabeth "Lis" Beyer (1906-1973) was a German artist. Biography Beyer was born in 1906 in Hamburg. She was a student at the Bauhaus where she was taught by Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. She worked at the Bauhaus weaving wor ...

(1906–1973), textile artist * Hanna Bieber-Böhm (1851–1910), painter * Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), photographer *

Ilse Bing Ilse Bing (23 March 1899 – 10 March 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. Biography Background and early life Bing was born to a wealthy Jewish fa ...

(1899–1998), avant-garde photographer *

Frieda Blell Frieda Blell (4 September 1874, Brandenburg - 5 March 1951, Gauting) was a German landscape painter. Life She was born to a long-established family of cloth merchants. Her father, , was a wholesale dealer, who served in the Reichstag and the Pr ...

(1874–1951), landscape painter *

Anna Katharina Block Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) was a German Baroque flower painter. Biography She was born Anna Katharina Fischer in Nuremberg. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer who taught her to paint.< ...

(1642–1719), flower painter *

Anna Blume Anna Blume (née Helming; 21 April 1936 18 June 2020) and Bernhard Johannes Blume (8 September 19371 September 2011) were German art photographers. They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared t ...

(1937–2020), photographer * Bärbel Bohley (1945–2010), artist, East German opposition figure * Cosima von Bonin (born 1962), contemporary artist *

Paula Bonte Paula Bonte (1840-1902) was a German landscape painter. Biography Bonte was born on 15 April 1840 in Magdeburg, Germany. She studied with and Otto von Kameke in Berlin. She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columb ...

(1840–1902), painter *

Madeleine Boschan Madeleine Boschan (born 1979) is a German artist. Biography Madeleine Boschan studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 2000 to 2006, where she was taught by John Armleder. Since 2010 she has participated in numerous in ...

(born 1979), sculptor *

Jenny Bossard-Biow Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858) was an early German female photographer, possibly the first woman in Germany to have worked with the daguerreotype Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photograph ...

(1813–c. 1858), photographer * Pola Brändle (born 1980), collage artist * Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979), contemporary artist *

Marianne Breslauer Marianne Breslauer (married surname Feilchenfeldt, 20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic. Life Marianne was born in Berlin, the daught ...

(1909–2001), photographer *

Dora Bromberger Dora Bromberger (1881 – 1942) was German artist who worked primarily with watercolor and oils, painting expressionist landscapes. She was born into a family of musicians in Bremen, Germany, and attended art school beginning in 1912, first in ...

(1881–1942), painter * Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl (1784–1844), pastellist * Hede Bühl (born 1940), sculptor * Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957), painter * Andrea Büttner (born 1972), multi-medium artist

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* Maria Caspar-Filser (1878–1968), painter *

Dorothea Chandelle Maria Dorothea Walpurgis Chandelle (22 July 1784 – 17 March 1866) was a German pastellist. Life Chandelle was born on 22 July 1784 in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, the third daughter of eight children of the Frankfurt pastellist and po ...

(1784–1866), painter *

Suzanne Chodowiecka Suzanne Chodowiecka (1763/64 – 1819) was a German painter. Her first name is sometimes spelled Susanne; also known as Suzette or Susette, she was also known as Mme. Henry after her marriage. Born in Berlin, Chodowiecka was the middle daughter of ...

(1763–1819), painter *

Claricia Claricia or Clarica was a 13th-century German illuminator. She is noted for including a self-portrait in a South German psalter of c. 1200, now in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. In the self-portrait, she depicts herself as swinging from the t ...

(fl. c.1200), manuscript illuminator *

Penelope Cleyn Penelope Cleyn (or Clein or Klein) (active 1668–1677) was a miniature painter active in London. Her exact birth and death dates are not known. Cleyn was the youngest daughter of the German painter and tapestry designer Francis Cleyn. Clayton, E ...

(fl. 1668–1677), miniaturist * Helene Cramer (1844–1916), painter * Molly Cramer (1852–1936), painter * Helga von Cramm (1840–1919), painter, illustrator and graphic artist *

Alice Creischer Alice Creischer (1960 in Gerolstein) is a German artist, writer and theorist. Her artistic practice and theoretical work focuses on issues of economic and institutional critique, globalization and the history of capitalism. Life Alice Creischer ...

(born 1960), artist, writer and theorist

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* Anna Dabis (1847–1927), sculptor *

Hanne Darboven Hanne Darboven (29 April 1941 – 9 March 2009) was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers. Early life and career Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich. She g ...

(1941–2009), conceptual artist * Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958), contemporary painter *

Marie Davids Marie Davids (1847–1905) was a German painter. Life Davids was born in Rendsburg and became a pupil of Alexander Struys. She was active in Berlin and created mainly portraits. In 1896 and 1904 she exhibited at the International Exhibition. ...

(1847–1905), painter *

Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski (née Wanda von Kunowski; 8 January 1870 – 23 April 1935) was a German portrait photographer based in Munich. Life Kunowski was born in Hammer, Kreis Czarnikau, province of Posen, she was the daughter of August ...

(1870–1935), portrait photographer *

Paula Deppe Paula Deppe (12 October 1886, Rokycany – 4 October 1922, Passau) was a Sudeten Germans, Bohemian-German painter, engraver and illustrator; known for landscapes, portraits and still-lifes. Biography Her father was the manager of a leather fa ...

(1886–1922), painter, engraver and illustrator *

Selma Des Coudres Selma Des Coudres (born Selma Plawneek ( lv, Zelma Pļavniece); 2 January 1883, Riga — 4 March 1956, Fürstenfeldbruck) was a Latvian-born German painter. Her style mixes elements of Art Nouveau, Expressionism and Japonism. Biography Her fath ...

(1883–1956), painter * Christa Dichgans (1940–2018), painter *

Adelheid Dietrich Adelheid Dietrich (1827–1891) was a German still life painter and daughter of painter Eduard Dietrich (1803–1877). Life She was born in Wittenberg, Germany, and painted flowers in fine detail in a manner resembling that of seventeenth-cent ...

(1827–1891), still life painter *

Minya Diez-Dührkoop Minya Diez-Dührkoop or Dièz-Dührkoop (21 June 1873 – 17 November 1929) was a German photographer. Biography Diez-Dührkoop was born in Hamburg in 1873. Her mother was Maria Louise Caroline, née Matzen, and her father was Rudolf Dührkoop, ...

(1873–1929), photographer *

Barbara Regina Dietzsch Barbara Regina Dietzsch (22 September 1706 – 1 May 1783) was a Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes. Biography Barbara Regina Dietzsch was born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Members of Dietzsch's family, including ...

(1706–1773), painter and engraver * Jacqueline Diffring (1920–2020), sculptor * Christel Drillbohrer (born 1956), painter, installation artist *

Sophie Dinglinger Sophie Friederike Dinglinger (1736–1791) was a German painter. Life and work Born in Dresden, Dinglinger was the daughter of goldsmith Johann Friedrich Dinglinger, and granddaughter of the better known goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger. Sh ...

(1736–1791), painter *

Louise Droste-Roggemann Louise Droste-Roggemann (20 October 1865 – 30 December 1945) was a German painter. Life Droste-Roggemann completed school in Bad Zwischenahn where she excelled in drawing. She lived with her parents and siblings in a house on Bahnhofstra� ...

(1865–1945), painter *

Inge Druckrey Inge Druckrey (born 1940 in Germany) is a designer and educator, who brought the Swiss school of design to the United States. She taught at Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Hartford, Philadelphia College of Art, Kunst ...

(born 1940), graphic designer and educator *

Tatjana Doll Tatjana Doll (born 1970 in Burgsteinfurt) is a contemporary German painter. Life Doll studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the master Dieter Krieg. In 2009 she was appointed as art professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. ...

(born 1970), contemporary painter *

Dr. Gindi Dr. Gindi (born 1965) is a German contemporary sculptor. Her work focuses on the infinity of human existence. Dr. Gindi lives and works in Switzerland. Early life and education Dr. Gindi was born in Hanover to parents of German and Egyptian or ...

(born 1965), sculptor *

(1865–1945), painter *

Ruth Duckworth Ruth Duckworth (April 10, 1919 – October 18, 2009) was a modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics, she worked in stoneware, porcelain, and bronze. Her sculptures are mostly untitled. She is best known for ''Clouds over Lake Michig ...

(1919–2009), German-American sculptor and ceramist

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Julie von Egloffstein Julie von Egloffstein (September 12, 1792 – January 16, 1869), countess, canoness of Hildesheim, was a German artist, encouraged in her work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Life She was born in Erlangen, daughter of Gottfried Friedrich Leopol ...

(1792–1869), painter *

Marli Ehrman Marli is a leading manufacturer of noncarbonated drinks in Finland. In 2001, the German group Eckes-Granini acquired all shares in the company. Marli's assortment include juice brands like Mehukatti, Juissi and Trip Trip may refer to: Art ...

(1904–1982), German-born American textile artist * Michaela Eichwald (born 1967), painter * Elisabeth von Eicken (1862–1940), landscape painter *

Frauke Eigen Frauke Eigen (born 1969 in Aurich, West Germany) is a German photographer, photojournalist and artist. Early life Eigen studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Kosovo war photographs In 2000, while Eigen was working as a photo-journali ...

(born 1969), photographer * Marie Ellenrieder (1791–1863), painter *

Clara Ewald Clara Ewald (1859-1948) was a German artist known for her portraits Biography Ewald née Pilippson was born on 22 October 1859 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, , and Karl Gussow. After the death of her h ...

(1859–1948), painter

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* Gertrude Fehr (1895–1996), photographer * Anke Feuchtenberger (born 1963), painter, comics artist *

Adele von Finck Adele von Finck (1879-1943) was a German artist. Biography Von Finck was born on 6 February 1879 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended the ''Akademie der Bildenden Künste München'' (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich) and the Académie Royale de ...

(1879–1943), painter *

Elsa Fraenkel Elsa Fraenkel née Rothschild (1892–1975) was a German–born British sculptor raised in Heidelberg, Germany. Education and Marriage Elsa Fraenkel's interest in art began when she was a young girl. She received the support of her family in t ...

(1892–1975), sculptor *

Maria Elektrine von Freyberg Maria Elektrine Freifrau von Freyberg, born at Strasbourg in 1797, was the daughter and pupil of Johann Baptist Stuntz, a painter of landscapes, under whose tuition she gave proof of great ability. She visited France and Italy, and stayed at ...

(1797–1847), painter *

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical se ...

(1874–1927), avant-garde artist, poet * Mathilde Freiin von Freytag-Loringhoven (1860–1941), painter, writer * Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), painter *

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 The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochsc ...

(1749–1815), flower painter * Katharina Fritsch (born 1956), sculptor *

Helene Funke Helene Funke (3 September 1869 – 31 July 1957) was a German-Austrian painter and graphic designer of modern times. Life and work As the daughter of an industrialist family, Funke studied painting against the will of the family from 1899 at th ...

(1869–1957), painter and graphic designer

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Edith Galliner Edith Marguerite Galliner, née Goldschmidt, (1914–2000) was an Anglo-German artist who painted in acrylic and produced pottery, collages and etchings. Galliner was born in England but grew up in Germany only to return to England when the Naz ...

(1914–2000), painter, potter * Anna Rosina de Gasc (1713–1783), portrait painter *

Sylke von Gaza Sylke von Gaza (* 1 July 1966 in Hamburg as Sylke von Gazen genannt Gaza) is a German artist. First and foremost an abstract painter, she also pursues numerous projects that investigate the effect and impact of painting in architectural spaces ...

(born 1966), abstract painter * Anna Margarethe Geiger (1783–1809), pastellist *

Senta Geißler Senta Geißler (24 July 1902 - 19 October 2000) was a German Painting, painter. Despite her gender, in 1919 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. She was one of the first Women artists, women to ...

(1902–2000), painter *

Isa Genzken Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photograp ...

(born 1948), contemporary artist *

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), painter *

Anna Gerresheim Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (8 March 1852 – 1 December 1921) was a German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher. She was among the founders of the artist's colony in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. Life Anna Gerresheim was ...

(1852–1921), painter, etcher * Helga Goetze (1922–2008), embroiderer, poet, activist *

Hilde Goldschmidt Hilde Goldschmidt (7 September 1897 – 7 August 1980) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Facing persecution under the Nazi regime, she sought refuge in Britain during the Second World War before establishing herself in Austria i ...

(1897–1980), painter and printmaker *

Marie Goslich Marie Eva Elwine Goslich (24 February 1859 in Frankfurt (Oder) – 1936) was a German journalist, photographer and magazine editor. She is listed in the Berlin Residents Directory as "Writer and Editor" from 1902 to 1908 in Berlin W 57, Kurfürs ...

(1859–1936), photographer and journalist *

Sophia Goudstikker Sophia Goudstikker (15 January 1865 – 20 March 1924) was a Dutch-born German photographer and feminist pioneer. She was one of the premier women's rights activists in Munich at the turn of the century and a business partner and companion of Ani ...

(1865–1924), Dutch-born German photographer and feminist *

Dorothea Maria Graff Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743) was an 18th-century painter from Germany, who lived and worked in Amsterdam, and Saint Petersburg. Biography Dorothea Maria Graff was born in Nuremberg as the daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian a ...

(1678–1743), painter *

Catrin G. Grosse Catrin G. Grosse (born 1964 in Finsterwalde), also known as Catrin Große, is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor. Career Catrin G. Grosse began at 16 years of age with an evening class in painting and graphic design in Cottbus at ...

(born 1964), painter, graphic designer and sculptor * Katharina Grosse (born 1968), artist *

Rita Grosse-Ruyken Rita Maria Walburga Grosse-Ruyken (born 29 November 1948) is a contemporary German artist, sculptor, multimedia installation art, artfilm and performance, producer artist and member of the Association of German Artists Deutscher Kuenstlerbund. Th ...

(born 1948), contemporary artist * Annelie Grund (born 1953), glass artist *

Sabina Grzimek Sabina Grzimek (born 12 November 1942 in Rome; also spelled Sabine) is a German sculptor. She is the daughter of sculptor Waldemar Grzimek Waldemar Grzimek (December 5, 1918 – May 26, 1984) was a German sculptor. Grzimek was born in Rastenb ...

(born 1942), sculptor *

Julia Gunther Julia Gunther (born 1979) is a photographer and cinematographer who makes documentary projects. From 2003 to 2008, Gunther worked as electrician or lighting assistant on films such as ''Black Book (film), Black Book'' (2006) and ''Nothing to Lose'' ...

(born 1979), photographer and documentary cinematographer

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Lisel Haas Lisel Haas (1898–1989) was a German female photographer. She worked as a photographer at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre where she photographed many plays. She obtained work with the theatre in 1940, photographing almost every production until ...

(1898–1989), theatre photographer *

Ilse Häfner-Mode Ilse Häfner-Mode (24 December 1902 - 15 March 1973) was a History of the Jews in Germany, German-Jewish artist of what German commentators sometimes term the "lost (or forgotten) generation" ("'':de:Verschollene Generation, Verschollene Generat ...

(1902–1973), German-Jewish artist * Esther Haase (born 1966), photographer and film director *

Godela Habel Godela Habel (18 September 1929 – 12 February 2022) was a German painter and artist. Life and work Godela Habel was born in Deutsch Krone, Posen-West Prussia, Weimar Germany on 18 September 1929. She studied from 1950 to 1953 at the art scho ...

(1929–2022), painter *

Sarah Haffner Sarah Haffner (born Margaret Pretzel: 27 February 1940 - 11 March 2018) was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist ...

(1940–2018), German-British painter and writer *

(1902–1973), German-Jewish painter * Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902), portrait painter *

Marie Hager Marie Hager (1872–1947) was a German artist. Biography Hager was born on 20 March 1872 in Penzlin, Germany. Hager exhibited regularly and was often commissioned to create specific city- or town-scapes. She was a member of the ''Allgemeinen De ...

(1872–1947), painter *

Magda Hagstotz Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001) was a German painter and belonging to the post-war abstract art movement. Her works consist mainly of watercolors and elaborately textured surfaces on small and medium canvases. Early life and education Hagstotz wa ...

(1914–2001), abstract painter *

Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann Henriette Christine Hahn-Brinckmann (1862–1934) was a Danish-German painter and lithographer. Among her most interesting works are those created with Japanese woodcutting tools which her husband, the museum curator Justus Brinckmann, brought ...

(1862–1934), painter and lithographer * Tina Haim-Wentscher (1887–1974), (aka ''Tina Haim-Wentcher''), German-Australian sculptress * Andrea Hanak (born 1969), painter *

Sandra Hastenteufel Sandra Hastenteufel (born 1966 in Stuttgart) is a German contemporary artist, who works with photography, film, sculpture and painting. Life She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 1996 she participated in a group exhibition o ...

(born 1966), contemporary artist *

Iris Häussler Iris Haeussler (or German spelling 'Häussler') (; born April 6, 1962) is a conceptual and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Many of Iris Haeussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installatio ...

(born 1971), German-born Canadian conceptual, installation artist *

Roswitha Hecke Roswitha Hecke (born 1944 in Hamburg) is a German people, German Photography, photographer and Photojournalism, photojournalist. With content ranging from faces to places, her photographic projects explore the unfamiliar and re-examine the familiar ...

(born 1944), photographer * Elise Neumann Hedinger (1854–1923), painter *

Susan Hefuna Susan Hefuna (Arabic: سوزان حفونه) is a German-Egyptian visual artist.Hanson, Sarah P"Susan Hefuna Uses Simple Strategy to Create Perspective-Changing Works" ''ArtInfo'', Retrieved 28 December 2014. She works in a variety of media, inc ...

(born 1962), visual artist * Marta Hegemann (1894–1970), avant-garde painter * Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), artist and alchemist * Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937–2020), painter * Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), German-born Argentine photographer * Carola Helbing-Erben, textile artist * Amalia von Helvig (1776–1831), artist, writer, who moved to Sweden *

Ingrid Hermentin Ingrid Hermentin (born 26 September 1951 in Löwenstein, West Germany) is an artist and pioneer of serial computer graphics. Life From 1969 to 1979, Hermentin was trained in the medical field and worked at various hospitals in the Stuttgart area ...

(born 1951), computer graphic artist *

Johanna Helena Herolt Johanna Helena Herolt (1 May 1668 – 1723) was an 18th-century botanical artist from Germany. She was well-known for her paintings similar to her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian, with her draftsmanship. Biography Herolt was the eldest daughter of t ...

(1723–1868), botanical painter *

Charline von Heyl Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German abstract painter. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and has studios in New York City and in Marfa, Texas. Life Von Heyl was born in Mai ...

(born 1960), German-American painter * Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956), photographer of naturism *

Eva Hesse Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...

(1936–1970), German-born American sculptor * Vera Hilger (born 1971), painter * Dora Hitz (1856–1924), painter * Hannah Höch (1889–1978), avant-garde artist *

Sophie Hoechstetter Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter (15 August 1873 – 4 April 1943) was a German painter, poet, and author. Hoechstetter was born in Pappenheim as the youngest daughter of a pharmacist. She wrote numerous novels and poems. She admired G ...

(1873–1943), painter, poet *

Marta Hoepffner Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) was a German artist and photographer. She studied at the Städelschule under Willi Baumeister and participated at the New Frankfurt-project. 1912 births 2000 deaths Photographers from Frankfurt German wo ...

(1912–2000), photographer *

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, ...

(born 1944), photographer * Margret Hofheinz-Döring (1910–1994), painter and graphic artist * Bettina Hohls (born 1947), artist and designer *

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 mar ...

(1857–1934), painter *

Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn (born 24 March 1944, in Michelstadt, Hesse) is a German visual artist, who is best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such a''Einhorn'' (Unicorn) a body-suit with a very large horn projecting ve ...

(born 1944), installation artist * Sabine Hornig (born 1964), photographer * Maria Innocentia Hummel (1909–1946), nun, artist *

Irma Hünerfauth Irma Hünerfauth, also known as IRMAnipulations (31 December 1907 – 11 December 1998) was a German painter, sculptor and object artist who turned junkyard scrap into sculptures, machines and kinetic art objects that mocked consumer society. She ...

(1907–1998), painter, sculptor and object artist * Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915–2009), sculptor *

Auguste Hüssener Auguste Hüssener (1789 – 13 February 1877) was a German engraver and miniature painter. Hüssener was born in Szczecin, Poland, and was a pupil of the engraver Ludwig Buchhorn. In 1814 she became a professor at the Prussian Academy of Ar ...

(1789–1877), engraver and miniaturist *

Walde Huth Walde Huth (January 29, 1923 - November 11, 2011) was a German photographer, known especially for her work in the fashion industry and for her street-style composition. Early life Huth was born in Stuttgart, Germany. At seventeen years of age, ...

(1923–2011), photographer

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* Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), German-American photographer * Ruth Jacobsen (1932–2019), German-born American artist, collages of the Holocaust *

Hedwig Jarke Hedwig Jarke (1882–1949) was a German artist. Biography Jarke was born in 1882 in Berlin. She died in 1949 in Starnberg. Her work is in the collection of the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (Municipal Art Museum, Spendhaus R ...

(1882–1949), printmaker *

Marie Jensen Marie Jensen (1845 – 1921) was a German portrait painter. Jensen was born in Würzburg as the daughter of the German writer Johann August Moritz Bruehl (1819–1877). In 1865 she married the poet and historical novelist Wilhelm Jensen in Vienn ...

(1845–1921), painter *

Charlotte Joël Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943) was a German photographer. Career Joël teamed up with photographer Marie Heinzelmann around 1918 and opened the photo studio ''Joël & Heinzelmann'' in Charlottenburg. She was mainly interested in portr ...

(1887–1943), photographer *

Ilse Jonas Ilse Jonas (29 May 1884–30 April 1922) was a German painter. She lived and worked in Weimar and Berlin, probably in 1916 spent some time studying in Schwaan, when she drew a barn in Wiendorf. That year she also made the painting ''Warnowb ...

(1884–1922), painter *

Brigitte Jurack Brigitte Jurack (born Düsseldorf, 1962) is a contemporary artist based in Liverpool, working predominantly in sculpture and performance art. Life and career Brigitte Jurack studied Protestant Theology at the Universities of Göttingen, Müns ...

(born 1962), sculptor * Tina Juretzek (born 1952), painter

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* Amalie Kärcher (1819–1887), fruit and flower painter *

Henriette Agnete Kitty von Kaulbach Henriette Agnete Kitty "Hedda" von Kaulbach (1900-1992) was a Germans, German–Dutch people, Dutch painter. Biography Von Kaulbach was born on 6 February 1900 in Munich. She was the daughter of the musician Frida Scotta and the artist Friedric ...

(1900–1992), German-Dutch painter *

Johanna Keimeyer Johanna Keimeyer (born 1982) is a German artist. She studied art and design, both in Germany and internationally, and has worked designing lighting fixtures, as well as experimenting with different photography techniques. Early life Keimeyer wa ...

(born 1982), photographer, artist *

Maria Countess von Kalckreuth Countess Maria von Kalckreuth (1857-1897) was a German painter known for her portraits. Biography Kalckreuth was born in 1857 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her brother Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth was also a painter. She was taught to paint by her fa ...

(1857–1897), painter *

Annette Kelm Annette Kelm (born 1975 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German contemporary artist and photographer who is particularly known as a conceptual artist. Kelm uses medium or large format cameras in her work, creating still life and portraits. She favours us ...

(born 1975), contemporary artist, photographer * Marie von Keudell (1838–1918), painter * Inge King (1915–2016), German-born Australian sculptor * Astrid Kirchner (1938–2020), photographer, artist *

Mary Louisa Kirschner Mary Louisa Kirschner (7 January 1852 – 30 June 1931) was a painter and glass artist. Biography Kirschner was born in Prague and first trained in Vienna with Anton Hansch and later with Adolf Heinrich Lier, under whom she showed her first wo ...

(1852–1931), painter, glass artist *

Johanna Kirsch Johanna Kirsch (1856-1907) was a German painter known for her portrait and genre paintings. Biography Kirsch was born in 1856 in Chemnitz, Germany. From 1883 to 1892 she studied at the Berlin Academy. Kirsch exhibited her work at the Woman's B ...

(1856–1907), painter * Anna Klein (1883–1941), painter * Barbara Klemm (born 1939), press photographer *

Gabriele Koch Gabriele Koch (born 1948 Germany) is a studio potter. Koch studied at the University of Heidelberg 1967–73 and later attended Goldsmiths, University of London, completing a diploma in Art and Design, Ceramics 1979–81. "earth, water, air ...

(born 1948), studio potter * Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), (aka Dora Stetter), landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher *

Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz ( born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and '' ...

(1867–1945), painter, printmaker *

Katrin Korfmann Katrin Korfmann (1971) is a German artist, currently living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Life and work Korfmann studied at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she specialized in photography and continued her research with r ...

(born 1971), contemporary artist * Emma Körner (1788–1815), painter * Marianne Kraus (1765–1838), painter, travel writer * Susanne Kriemann (born 1972), artist, photographer *

Magda Kröner Magda Kröner (1854–1935) was a German painter known for her still lifes. Biography Kröner née Helmcke was born on 24 January 1854 in Rendsburg Rendsburg ( da, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'', nds, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'') is a town o ...

(1854–1935), painter *

Monika Kropshofer Monika Kropshofer (born 14 November 1952 in Neuwied) is a German painter and photographer. Since the middle of the year 2000 Kropshofer has gained renown through her large-format painted landscape and architecture photographs which were created as ...

(born 1952), photographer * Christiane Kubrick (born 1932), actress, dancer, painter and singer * Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer, activist * Marianne Kühn (1914–2005), politician and painter *

Susanne Kühn Susanne Kühn (born 1969 in Leipzig, Germany) is a contemporary German painter. Susanne Kühn studied painting and graphic art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in Germany (1990–1995). Between 1995 -1998 she lived and w ...

(born 1969), painter *

Marie Kundt Marie Julia Berta Emma Kundt (4 February 1870 – 2 April 1932) was a German photographer and educator. From 1913 to 1932, she was the director of the photography department of Lette-Verein, an educational establishment for young women, where she b ...

(1870–1932), photographer and educator *

Marianne Kürzinger Marianne Kürzinger (1766 or 1767, Munich – 1809) was a German history and genre painter. In later life, she specialized in painting allegorical representations of Bavarian events of the times. Biography Kürzinger was the daughter and pup ...

(1767–1809), history and genre painter *

Barbara Kussinger Barbara Kussinger (born 1970 in Freising, Upper Bavaria) is a German artist. In 1999, she studied at Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria. In 2006, she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Awards *2007 Villa Romana prize Solo Shows *200 ...

(born 1970), painter

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* Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993), German-Swedish painter *

Henni Lehmann Henriette Lehmann, née Straßmann, known as Henni (10 October 1862, Berlin – 18 February 1937, Berlin) was a politically and socially active German painter and writer of Jewish ancestry. Biography Her father, Wolfgang Straßmann, was a do ...

(1862–1937), painter *

Hildegard Lehnert Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943) was a German painter. Biography Lehnert was born in 1857 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia. She studied painting under Clara Lobedan and Karl Gussow at the Berlin Academy. She continued her studies in Paris with . Leh ...

(1857–1943), painter *

Margaret Leiteritz Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976) was a German painter who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1931.Lindemann, Klaus E. R. (2001) ''Die Bauhauskünstlerin Margaret Leiteritz: Gemalte Diagramme''. Karlsruhe: INFO Verlag. Early life and ...

(1907–1976), painter * Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer * Sabine Lepsius (1864–1942), portrait painter * Esther Levine (born 1970), German-American photographer *

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 ...

(1849–1918), painter *

Emmy Lischke Emmy Lischke (1860-1919) was a German painter known for her landscapes and still lifes. Biography Lischke was born on November 13, 1860, in Elberfeld, Kingdom of Prussia. She was the daughter of Alwine von der Heydt and Elberfeld mayor Karl Emil ...

(1860–1919), painter *

Clara Lobedan Clara Augusta Amalie Emma Lobedan (1840–1918) was a German painter, watercolorist, pastelist, ceramicist, and craftsman. Biography Lobedan was born on 8 August 1840 in Naumburg, Germany. She studied painting under and Karl Gussow in Berlin. L ...

(1840–1918), painter *

Elisabeth Loewe Elisabeth Loewe (1924, in Breslau – 1996, in Bremen) was a German artist of the Post- Expressionism. Life Born in Breslau to Jewish parents, she contracted Poliomyelitis as a nine-year-old, which resulted in a severe physical disability. It ...

(1924–1996), Post-Expressionist painter * Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter *

Christiane Löhr Christiane Löhr (born 1965 in Wiesbaden) is a contemporary Germany, German artist, who lives and works in Cologne, Germany and near Prato, Italy. Life and Work Born in Wiesbaden in 1965, Christiane Löhr studied Egyptology, Classical Archeolo ...

(born 1965), contemporary artist *

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 ...

(1899–1940), avant-garde artist * Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859–1932), painter * Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter *

Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (18 April 1622 – 11 February 1709) was a painter and abbess. She was a daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart. Early life Born in April 1622, Louise Hollandine ...

(1622–1709), painter and abbess *

Auguste Ludwig Auguste Ludwig (1834-1901) was a German genre painter. Biography Ludwig was born on 26 February 1834 in Gräfenthal. Throughout her career she lived in Dresden, Weimar, Berlin, and Düsseldorf. She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at ...

(1834–1901), painter *

Almuth Lütkenhaus Almuth Lütkenhaus (née Wirsing; 8 March 1930 in Hamm, Westphalia – 1996 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a sculptor, also known as Almuth Lütkenhaus-Lackey. From 1948 until 1952 she studied art at schools in Dortmund and Münster. She married Erich Lüt ...

(1930–1996), sculptor * Loretta Lux (born 1969), photographer *

Rut Blees Luxemburg Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967) is a German-born British photographer. Her technique is to take photographs at night, mostly exploring the urban landscape. She is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. In 2020, Luxemburg was awarded an Honorary Fel ...

(born 1967), photographer *

Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy Princess Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (born as ''Brachfeld Vilma Erzsébet'', Hajdúdorog, 15 April 1863 - New York, 28 August 1923) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian-born portrait painter who worked in Germany and the United States. She is kno ...

(1863–1923), painter

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Hilke MacIntyre Hilke MacIntyre is German artist living and working in St Andrews, Scotland. She grew up near Kiel and studied architecture there. MacIntyre's work includes lino cuts, prints and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited in art festivals such as the ...

, contemporary ceramist *

Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (6 February 1886 – 8 February 1930) was a German avant-garde painter. Biography Dorothea Johannsen was born in Lensahn. She went to Hamburg trade school for girls. She was a teacher in Schleswig until 1910 when ...

(1886–1930), portrait painter *

Eva de Maizière Eva de Maizière ( Werner; 27 March 1915, in Hanover – October 2003, in Bonn) was a German artist, sculptor and cellist. She was married to Ulrich de Maizière until her death in 2003. Her sons are Andreas and Thomas de Maizière Karl Ernst ...

(1915–2003), artist, sculptor and cellist * Melanie Manchot (born 1966), photographer and installation artist *

Jeanne Mandello Jeanne Mandello (née Johanna Mandello; 18 October 1907, Frankfurt – 17 December 2001, Barcelona) was a German modern artist and experimental photographer. Early years and education Mandello grew up in an art-loving, secular Jewish family in ...

(1907–2001), photographer *

Henriette Manigk Henriette Manigk (also called ''Jette'') (born 30 April 1968 at Usedom) is a German painter. life Manigk is the daughter of the painter Oskar Manigk and granddaughter of the painter Otto Manigk. She completed her graduation in 1986 in Wolgast. ...

(born 1968), painter * Maria Marc (1876–1953), painter, textile artist * Hedwig Marquardt (1884–1969), ceramist and painter * Therese Maron (1725–1806), painter * Ellen Marx (born 1939), artist and author *

Toni Mau Toni Mau (2 September 1917 – 22 November 1981) was a German painter, graphic artist and arts academy teacher. Life Between 1934 and 1939, and again between 1941 and 1943, Toni Mau studied at the Teaching Institute of the Berlin Museum of Appli ...

(1917–1981), painter, graphic artist and educator *

Susanna Mayr Susanna Mayr (1600, Augsburg – 1674, Augsburg), was a German Baroque painter. Biography According to Joachim von Sandrart she was the daughter of the painter Johann Georg Fischer and the mother of Johann Ulrich Mayr, who was also a painter. ...

(1600–1674), Baroque painter *

Josephine Meckseper Josephine Meckseper (born 1964) is a German artist, active mainly in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide. Life and education Meckseper studie ...

(fl. 1990s), contemporary artist *

Ada Mee Ada Mee (born 1946) is a German artist based in Heidelberg. She works across various mediums, including painting, lithography, and photography. Life Ada Mee was born 1946 in Thuringia and lived in Jena until her escape to the Federal Republic ...

(born 1946), multi-media artist * Else Meidner (1901–1987), painter * Anna Maria Mengs (1751–1792), painter * Julia Charlotte Mengs (c.1730–c.1806), painter *

Anne Menke Anne Menke is a German-born photographer now based in New York City who specializes in editorial advertising, and beauty photography. Biography Anne Menke was born on March 26, 1967, in Wittlich, Germany. In 1987, she finished her apprenticeship ...

(born 1967), German-American photographer *

Adelheid Mers Adelheid Mers (born 1960, Düsseldorf) is a German visual artist, Professor, and the Chair of the Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. As an artist, Mers works through Performative ...

(born 1960), multi-disciplinary artist *

Immeke Mitscherlich Immeke Mitscherlich née Emma Catarina Caroline Schwollmann (1899–1985) was a German textile artist. After completing studies in weaving in the late-1920s at the Bauhaus Dessau, Bauhaus in Dessau, she married the artist Alexander Mitscherlich in ...

(1899–1985), textile artist * Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), Expressionist painter *

Una H. Moehrke Una Helga Moehrke (born July 7 1953 in Hanover) is a German visual artist specializing in painting, drawing, performance art and experimental text. She was a Professor for Art and Art Mediation at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in ...

(born 1953), painter *

Marg Moll Marg Moll (born Margarethe Haeffner; 2 August 1884 – 15 March 1977) was a German sculptor, painter and author. Moll was strongly influenced by Henri Matisse as a young artist and spent her life contributing to his form of art, although at time ...

(1884–1977), sculptor, painter and writer * Sabine Moritz (born 1969), painter and graphic designer *

Hedda Morrison Hedwig Marie "Hedda" Morrison (; 13 December 1908 – 3 December 1991) was a German photographer who created historically significant documentary images of Beijing, Hong Kong and Sarawak from the 1930s to the 1960s. Biography Born Hedda Hammer ...

(1908–1991), photographer * Auguste Müller (1847–1930), woodcarver, toymaker *

Karin Apollonia Müller Karin Apollonia Müller (born 1963, Heidelberg, Germany) is a German contemporary photographer artist. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships. Her work is published, exhibited and is in the following collections: The Whitney Mu ...

(born 1963), contemporary artist * Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), Expressionist painter

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Susanne von Nathusius Susanne Philippine von Nathusius (2 May 1850, in Königsborn – 30 December 1929, in Nietleben, near Halle) was a German portrait painter who worked in Halle and Paris. Biography She was the third of six children born to the biologist Wil ...

(1850–1929), portrait painter *

Renee Nele Eva Renée Nele (born 1932) is a German artist who works principally in goldsmithing and metal sculpture. Life Nele was born on 15 March 1932 in Berlin, the daughter of Arnold Bode; she grew up in Kassel. She studied under at the Akadem ...

(born 1932), sculptor, goldsmith * Elisabet Ney (1833–1907), sculptor * Anja Niedringhaus (1965–2014), photojournalist * Margret Nissen (born 1938), photographer *

Elisabeth Noltenius Elisabeth Noltenius (24 January 1888 - 22 February 1964) was a German painter. Biography Noltenius was born on 24 January 1888 in Bremen, Germany. She first studied etching with Hans am Ende and sculpture with Clara Westhoff. In 1911 she went ...

(1888–1964), painter *

Maria Nordman Maria Nordman is a German-American sculptor and conceptual artist. She is known for creating the contexts of FILM ROOMS starting in 1967: ''FILM ROOM EAT 1967-PRESENT'' and ''FILM ROOM EXHALE 1967- PRESENT''. These two works are the fulcrum of ot ...

(born 1943), German-American sculptor, conceptual artist

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Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell, whose name at birth was ''Emilie Friederike Auguste Miethe,'' was born in Potsdam on 28 March 1822 and died in Paris in 1885. A German painter and portraitist, her work was in vogue among the Parisian soc ...

(1823–1885), painter * Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist, photographer *

Hildegard Ochse Hildegard Ochse (December 7, 1935 – June 28, 1997) was a German photographer. Life and work Hildegard Maria Helene Ochse (maiden name Römer) was born at home in Bad Salzuflen, Westphalia on December 7, 1935, the daughter of Dr. phil. Emma M ...

(1935–1997), photographer *

Li Osborne Li Osborne (née Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf; 4 January 1883 – 19 August 1968), also known as Louise Hutchinson, was a German-born, later British, portrait and figure photographer and sculptor in bronze and terracotta. Biography Osborne w ...

(1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor *

Anna Kerstin Otto Anna Kerstin Otto (born 1972 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German painter. Biography In 1997–1999, Otto studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach, and Academy of Reykjavík, Iceland. In 1999–2005, she studied at Städelschule, at F ...

(born 1972), painter *

Justine Otto Justine Otto (born 1974) is a German painter. Life Otto was born in Poland. In 1983, she moved to Germany. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a stage designer at the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt. In 1996, she studied at the State Academy of ...

(born 1974), painter * Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (1869–1937), landscape painter

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Cornelia Paczka-Wagner Cornelia Paczka-Wagner' (1864-after 1930) was a German artist. Biography Paczka-Wagner née Wagner was born on 9 August 1864 in Göttingen. She attended the ''Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste'' (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich) and studie ...

(1864–after 1930), painter *

Amalia Pachelbel Amalia Pachelbel (29 October 1688 – 6 December 1723) was a German painter and engraver. She was born in Erfurt and was the oldest daughter of composer Johann Pachelbel. She was named after Amalia Oeheim, Johann's sister-in-law. Accordin ...

(1688–1723), painter and engraver *

Louise Pagenkopf Louise Pagenkopf (née Louise Elisabeth Wilhelmine Pagenkopf; (3 March 1856 - 30 March 1922)) was a German female landscape and flower painter. She is most known for her watercolor paintings, which have been featured and exhibited in several natio ...

(1856–1922), landscape painter *

Margarete Palz Margarete Palz (born 1937) is a German textile artist. After studying craftmanship and art history in Saarbrücken, she taught art at a high school in Zweibrücken until 2000. She has since drawn on her creative talents, especially for designing ex ...

(born 1937), textile artist *

Jeannette Papin Jeannette, sometimes "Nanette", Papin, née Chodowiecka (1761–1835) was a German painter. Jeannette Chodowiecka was a daughter of Jeanne Barez and her husband Daniel Chodowiecki. Papin was born in Berlin, moving to Frankfurt an der Oder after he ...

(1761–1835), painter *

Helga Paris Helga Paris (née Steffens; born 21 May 1938) is a German photographer known, among other things, for her photographs of daily life in East Germany. Early life Helga Steffens, daughter of Gertrud Steffens and typesetter Wilhelm Steffens, was bor ...

(born 1938), photographer *

Lina von Perbandt Lina von Perbandt (25 May 1836 – 1884) was a German landscape painter and member of the Düsseldorf school of painting Life and career Born into an aristocratic family in Langendorf, East Prussia, Perbandt studied art under August Behrendsen a ...

(1836–1884), landscape painter *

Anna Peters Anna Peters (28 February 1843, Mannheim – 26 June 1926, Stuttgart) was a German painter remembered for her flower paintings and landscapes. She was the daughter and pupil of the Dutch landscape painter Pieter Francis Peters. Biography Peters ...

(1843–1926), landscape and flower painter * Lilo Peters (1913–2001), painter and sculptor * Pietronella Peters (1848–1924), portrait painter *

Carlotta Ida Popert Carlotta Ida Popert (1848 – 1923) was a German-Italian artist. She painted, mainly in watercolor, and also made etchings. Biography Popert was born in Hamburg, and studied there with Friedrich Preller the Elder. She lived in Rome for many ...

(1848–1923), German-Italian watercolourist, etcher * Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985), sculptor * Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971), German-Iranian sculptor, photographer, filmmaker *

Maria Katharina Prestel Maria Katharina Prestel (22 July 1747 – 16 March 1794) née Maria Katharina Höll, was an engraver and painter from Nuremberg, and active in London. Biography Prestel, daughter of Maria and Thomas Höll, was born in Nuremberg where she becam ...

(1747–1794), painter, etcher *

Hermione von Preuschen Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918) was a German painter and author. She is also referred to by the names Erminia Preuschen, Hermine von Preuschen, and Hermine Preuschen. She worked for many years in Italy, but also traveled long and extensivel ...

(1854–1918), painter, writer *

Emilie Preyer Emilie Preyer (1849–1930) was a German painter known for her still life paintings. Biography Preyer was born on 6 June 1849 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was taught to paint by her father, the still life painter Johann Wilhelm Preyer Johann ...

(1849–1930), painter *

Barbara Probst Barbara Probst (born 1964) is a contemporary artist whose photographic work consists of multiple images of a single scene, shot simultaneously with several cameras via a radio-controlled system. Using a mix of color and black-and-white film, she p ...

(born 1964), German-American photographer * Anne-Katrin Purkiss (born 1959), photographer * Doramaria Purschian (1890–1972), Expressionist painter *

Karin Putsch-Grassi Karin Putsch-Grassi is a Pottery, potter. Biography After an apprenticeship in the studio of Albrecht Kiedaisch in Tübingen Putsch-Grassi began her studies in ceramics 1982 at "Istituto statale d’Arte” in Florence with Salvatore and Stefan ...

(born 1960), potter

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* Doris Raab (1851–1933), print-maker *

Erna Raabe Erna Raabe, Dame von Holzhausen (1882-1938) was a German artist; known for portraits and animal paintings. Biography She studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, from 1900 to 1902. Her primary instructor there was Wilhelm Trübner. Aft ...

(1882–1938), painter * Dorothee Raetsch (born 1940), sculptor, graphic artist * Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), fashion photographer * Katharina Rapp (born 1948), painter *

Sandra Rauch Sandra Rauch (Berlin, 1967) is a German artist. Sandra Rauch began to study communication design in 1991 in (''Berlin Kommunikationsdesign'') and she changed in 1995 to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts to study painting and graphic techniques. Fro ...

(born 1967), painter * Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), abstract artist, co-founder of the Guggenheim Museum *

Anita Rée Anita Clara Rée (born 9 February 1885 in Hamburg, died 12 December 1933 in Kampen) was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic. She killed herself after the anti-Semitic government declared her work degenerate. Her works were sa ...

(1885–1933), avant-garde painter *

Margaretha Reichardt Margaretha Reichardt (6 March 1907 – 25 May 1984), also known as Grete Reichardt, was a textile artist, weaver, and graphic designer from Erfurt, Germany.

(1907–1984), textile designer and former

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2 ...

student *

Margarethe von Reinken Margarethe von Reinken (27 March 1877 - 20 January 1962) was a German painter. She was known chiefly for still lifes, landscapes and portraiture. Life Margarethe Diederike von Reinken was born in Bremen, the youngest of her parents' eight c ...

(1877–1962), painter *

Claudia Reinhardt Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964 in Viernheim) is a contemporary German photographer. She lives and works in Norway and Berlin. Early life Claudia Reinhardt was born in southern Germany in 1964. In the age of eighteen she left her home town to live ...

(born 1964), photographer * Christophine Reinwald (1757–1847), painter *

Regina Relang Regina Relang (1906–1989) was a German fashion photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s and 1960s. She documented the latest designs of prominent fashion houses. Biography Relang (born Regina Lang) was born in Stuttgart in 1906, dau ...

(1906–1989), fashion photographer * Jack von Reppert-Bismarck (1903–1971), painter *

Elisabeth Reuter Elisabeth Reuter (21 September 1853 in Lübeck – 7 May 1903 in Heidelberg) was a German landscape painter. Biography She was born to Gottlob Reuter, a doctor, and his wife, Elise née Trummer. Her uncle was the Lutheran church leade ...

(1853–1903), painter *

Ottilie Reylaender Ottilie Reylaender (19 October 1882 – 29 March 1965) was a German painter. She was one of the pioneers of modern art in Germany. Life and work Ottilie Reylaender was born in Wesselburen in 1882, the daughter of a large family of civil serva ...

(1882-1965), painter *

Evelyn Richter Evelyn Richter (31 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a German art photographer known primarily for social documentary photography work in East Germany. She is notable for her black & white photography in which she documented working-class lif ...

(1930–2021), photographer * Ursula Richter (1886–1946), theatre photographer *

Frieda Riess Frieda Gertrud Riess (1890 – c. 1955) was a German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin.

(1890–c .1955), portrait photographer *

Adele Röder Adele Röder or Adele Roder (born 1980 Dresden) is a German painter. She and fellow artist Kerstin Brätsch form the duo DAS INSTITUT. Röder's work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Röder's work has been exh ...

(born 1980), painter * Emy Roeder (1890–1971), sculptor *

Ottilie Roederstein Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein (22 April 1859 – 26 November 1937) was a German-Swiss painter. She was the long-time companion of Elisabeth Winterhalter, one of the first female doctors in Germany. Life Roederstein was born in Zürich, Switze ...

(1859–1937), painter *

Rita Rohlfing Rita Rohlfing (born 1964 in Bad Oeynhausen) is a German painter, photographer and installation artist. Biography Rita Rohlfing studied from 1985 to 1991 at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 1992 she was appointed "Master Student" (Meiste ...

(born 1964), painter, photographer and installation artist *

Tata Ronkholz Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997) was a German photographer. Ronkholz was born in 1940 in Krefeld, Germany. She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Krefeld and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf she was taught by Bernd Becher. Her wo ...

(1940–1997), photographer *

Jelka Rosen Hélène Sophie Emilie Rosen, known as Jelka, (30 December 186828 May 1935) was a German painter, best known as the wife of the English composer Frederick Delius. She was born in Belgrade in 1868. She was the youngest of five children born to ...

(1868–1935), painter *

Ulla Irina Rossek Ulla Rossek (born 1978) is a German artist. In 1999–2003, she studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 2003–2004, she studied at Städelschule Frankfurt. She lives and works in Berlin. Awards *2005 Villa Romana prize The Villa R ...

(born 1978), painter *

Valeska Röver Valeska Röver (6 February 1849 – 31 March 1931) was a German painter. Röver started an art school for women in her home town of Hamburg. Life Röver was born in Hamburg in 1849. She was a student of the impressionist Franz Skarbina and she to ...

(1849–1931), painter *

Julika Rudelius Julika Rudelius (born 1968) is an internationally exhibiting German-born video and performance artist who lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York. Rudelius' photographic and video work examines complex notions of emotional dependenc ...

(born 1968), video and performance artist

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* Lessie Sachs (1897–1942), poet and artist *

Adelaïde Salles-Wagner Adelheid Wagner or Adelaïde Salles-Wagner (1825–1890) (born Adélaïde Salles) was a German-born painter active in France. She was a pupil of Claude Jacquand in Lyon, and Joseph Bernhardt in Munich or Paris. She married the painter Jules Sal ...

(1825–1890), painter active in France * Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), painter *

Christa Sammler Christa Sammler (born 23 December 1932) is a German sculptor. Life Christa Sammler was born in Breslau (as Wrocław was known at that time). Between 1948 and 1951 she received drawing lessons from Alfred Herzog in Bautzen. 1951 was the y ...

(born 1932), sculptor * Eva Sandberg-Xiao (1911–2001), photographer * Agnes Sander-Plump (1888–1980), painter * Amalia von Schattenhofer (1763–1840), art collector and amateur painter *

Silke Schatz Silke Schatz (born 1967, Celle, Germany) is an artist based in Cologne. Life From 1987 until 1995, she attended Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts), interrupted in 1991-92 by a stay in Chicago, ...

(born 1967), sculptor, installation artist * Auguste Schepp (1846–1905), painter * Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), German-American painter, art collector and teacher *

Ingrid Schmeck Ingrid M. Schmeck (born 1944) is a German visual artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. Biography Ingrid Schmeck was born 1944 in Poznań, Reichsgau Wartheland (present-day Poland). She was raised in Eckernförde, Germany. Schmeck studied ...

(born 1944), graphic artist *

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (9 August 1920 – 5 March 2021) was a German painter. The artist lived and worked in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen art academy in the 1940s. Works Painting was the main media of Gerda Schmidt-Panknin. She preferre ...

(1920–2021), painter *

Julia Schmidt Julia Schmidt (born 1976 in Wolfen) is a German painter, living in Hamburg. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art and from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Schmidt exhibited at Union Gallery, and Casey Kaplan. Awards * 2011 Vil ...

(born 1976), painter *

Thyra Schmidt Thyra Schmidt (1974) is a German visual artist. Life and work Schmidt studied fine arts from 1996 to 2000 at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, under Peter Tuma, and in 1999/2000 at the Hiroshima City University, Faculty ...

(born 1974), visual artist *

Henriette Schneider Henriette Schneider (1747–1812) was a German painter. Born in Neuwied, Schneider was the daughter of Ludwig Schneider. She produced portraits in pastel and enamel, and was proficient in miniature painting as well. She died in Munich ...

(1747–1812), painter *

Sophie Schneider Sophie Schneider (30 October 1866, Blaufelden - 25 May 1942, Blaufelden) was a German painter. Biography She was one of eight siblings born to a farming family and spent her youth working on their farm. In 1890, she went to Switzerland and t ...

(1866–1942), painter * Stefanie Schneider (born 1968), photographer *

Doris Schoettler-Boll Doris Schöttler-Boll (born 3 January 1945 in Noerdlingen; died 29 January 2015 in Essen) was a German artist. She is known for her de-constructivist works that she initially described as a result of Photomontage and Collage. Life and work St ...

(1945–2015), artist, curator and teacher *

Eva Schorr Eva Schorr (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer. Biography Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began c ...

(1927–2016), painter and composer *

Bertha Schrader Bertha Schrader (11 June 1845 – 11 May 1920) was a German painter, lithographer, and woodblock print-maker. Biography Schrader was born on 11 June 1845 in Memel, Lithuania. She studied with Carl Graeb's son Paul Graeb (1842-1892) in Berlin, ...

(1845–1920), painter * Martina Schradi (born 1972), writer, cartoonist * Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (1904–1995), painter *

Käthe Schuftan Käthe Fanny Schuftan (12 January 1899 – 21 February 1958) was a German Jewish artist whose paintings and drawings expressed both human suffering and the aspiration of spirit, in the mid 20th century. Josef Paul Hodin wrote that she "worked in ...

(1899–1958), painter and draftsman *

Anna Schuleit Haber Anna Schuleit Haber (born 1974) is a visual artist whose work engages a range of media, technologies, and environments. The range of work extends from sound systems in psychiatric institutions that turn architecture into a vessel or body of sound ...

(born 1974), visual artist * Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938), photographer *

Martina Schumacher Martina Schumacher (born 1972 in Geislingen an der Steige, Germany) is a painter and conceptual artist. ArtFacts.NetMartina Schumacher Education Concomitantly while attending Royal College of Art in London, Schumacher was a master student under t ...

(born 1972), conceptual artist *

Eva Schulze-Knabe Eva Schulze-Knabe (11 May 1907 – 15 July 1976) was a German painter and graphic artist, as well as a resistance fighter against the Third Reich. Biography Born in Pirna, Saxony, Eva Schulze-Knabe studied from 1924 to 1926 in Leipzig and from ...

(1907–1976), painter and graphic artist, resistance fighter * Regine Schumann (born 1961), contemporary painter and installation artist * Else Seifert (1879–1968), architectural photographer * Else Sehrig-Vehling (1897–1994), Expressionist painter * Louise Seidler (1786–1866), painter, custodian *

Friederike Sieburg Friederike Sieburg (1761–1835) was a German pastellist. Sieburg was born in Berlin. Daniel Chodowiecki encouraged her to show her work, and she exhibited pastel portraits at the academy in Berlin in 1788, 1793, and 1794.Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899–1944), designer * Katharina Sieverding (born 1944), photographer *

Pola Sieverding Pola Sieverding (born 1981) is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media.Art N ...

(born 1981), photographer and video artist *

Clara Siewert Clara Siewert (9 December 1862, Budda ( Pomerania) – 11 October 1945, Berlin) was a German Symbolist painter, graphic artist and sculptor; associated with the Berlin Secession. Biography She was born to a family of Baltic-Germans who ...

(1862–1945), Symbolist painter * Ludovike Simanowiz (1759–1827), portrait painter *

Zuzanna Skiba Zuzanna Zita Skiba (born 1968 in Koszalin, Poland) is a German artist. Her artistic media are primarily drawing and painting, but also photography, performance and video. She developed her own exhibition series as a curator under the theme ''Da ...

(born 1968), painter * Maria Slavona (1865–1931), Impressionist painter *

Kiki Smith Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, whi ...

(born 1954), West German born American sculptor, printmaker, drawer *

Annegret Soltau Annegret Soltau (born 16 January 1946) is a German visual artist, born in Lüneburg, Germany. Her work marks a fundamental reference point in the art of the 1970s and 1980s. Photomontages of her own body and face sewn over or collaged with blac ...

(born 1946), visual artist *

Margarethe Sömmering Margarethe Sömmering, born Margarethe Elisabeth Grunelius (1768–1802) was a German painter. Born in Frankfurt, Sömmering was the sister of a banker, and in 1792 married Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, who at the time was dean of the medical facu ...

(1768–1802), painter * Kathrin Sonntag (born 1981), visual artist *

Catharina Sperling-Heckel Catharina Sperling-Heckel (10 April 1699 - 28 May 1741) was a German miniature painter, etcher and engraver. Life and work Catharina Heckel was born in April 1699 in Augsburg. Her father was Michael Heckel. He was a goldsmith and taught Heckel ...

(1699–1741), painter and etcher *

Gertrud Staats Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) was a German painter and founder of ''Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen''. She was known for her landscapes. Biography Staats was born on 21 February 1859 in Wrocław. She received her first training from . ...

(1859–1938), painter * Pia Stadthäuser (born 1959), sculptor *

Jonny Star Jonny Star (born December 26, 1964, in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German artist. Until 2011 she worked as an artist under her given name Gabriele-Maria Scheda. She lives and works in Berlin and in New York City, United States Personal life Jon ...

(born 1964), sculptor, installation artist *

Birgit Stauch Birgit Stauch (Born in Baden-Baden, (Germany), December 11, 1961) is a contemporary German sculptor who works in bronzes, sculptures, sketches and portraits. Life Stauch was born in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, daughter of artist and sculp ...

(born 1961), contemporary sculptor *

Marél von Steinling Marie-Gabrielle Spies von Büllesheim née von Steinling (born 16 Juni 1933 in Eichstätt /Bavaria) is an artist – known as ''MARÉL''. 2006 she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal German Order of Merit in the name of the Presi ...

(born 1933), painter * Hito Steyerl (born 1966), filmmaker, visual artist and writer * Dora Stock (1760–1832), painter *

Minna Stocks Minna Stocks (1846-1928) was a German painter known for her animal paintings. Biography Stocks was born on 24 June 1846 in Schwerin, Germany. She studied with Carl Steffeck, , Gustav Graef, and Jeanna Bauck. She exhibited her work at the Woma ...

(1846–1928), painter *

Gunta Stölzl Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop, where she created enormous change as it transitioned from individual pictorial ...

(1897–1983), textile artist * Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955), painter *

Helene Marie Stromeyer Helene Marie Stromeyer (26 August 1834 – 13 March 1924) was a German painter known for her floral and landscape paintings. Biography Stromeyer was born on 26 August 1834 in Hanover. The surgeon Louis Stromeyer was her father. In the 1880s she ...

(1834–1924), painter *

Erika Stürmer-Alex Erika Stürmer-Alex (born 4 February 1938 in Wriezen) is a German artist whose works include wall paintings, panel paintings, printed graphics, collage sculptures, polyester sculptures and installations. Life Erika Stürmer-Alex studied paint ...

(born 1938), painter

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Gerda Taro Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the ...

(1910–1937), war photographer * Henriette-Félicité Tassaert (1766–1818), painter * Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920), illustrator and painter * Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), Rococo painter * Ulrike Theusner (born 1982), printmaker *

Elsa Thiemann Elsa Thiemann (''née'' Franke, 7 February 1910 – 15 November 1981) was a German photographer and former Bauhaus student. She also designed wallpaper based on photograms. Personal life and education Elsa Thiemann was born in Toruń, West Pru ...

(1910–1981), photographer * Amalie Tischbein (1757–1839), painter and etcher *

Elisabeth Treskow Elisabeth Treskow (1898–1992) was a German goldsmith and jewellery designer, one of the earliest professional women in the field. After serving an apprenticeship under in Munich, in 1923 she worked with the bookbinder Frida Schoy in the artists ...

(1898–1992), goldsmith *

Catharina Treu Catharina Treu (21 May 1743 – 11 October 1811) was a German still life painter, and court painter for Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in 1769. Treu was born in Bamberg in a family of painters.Rosemarie Trockel Rosemarie Trockel (born 13 November 1952) is a German conceptual artist. She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and has worked in mixed media. From 1985, she made pictures using knitting-machines. She is a pro ...

(born 1952), contemporary artist *

Alice Trübner Alice Trübner (1875–1916) was a German artist. Biography Trübner née Auerbach was born on 24 August 1875 in Bradford, England. She was the wife of the painter Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917). Trübner exhibited her work in Berlin. She die ...

(1875–1916), painter *

Susanne Tunn Susanne Tunn (born 1958) is a German sculptor. She is well known for her big sculptures made from stone, but works as well in other natural materials such as tin, wood, concrete, plants or dust. Whether she is working with outsize or tiny formats, ...

(born 1958), sculptor

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* Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer

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* Lette Valeska (1885–1985), painter *

Jutta Vialon Jutta Vialon (3 March 1917 – 23 February 2004) was a German photographer based, during her working life, in Bremen. The profession was a respected one, but also very male dominated, which made her unusual. Her most important professional ass ...

(1917–2004), photographer * Clara Vogedes (1892–1983), painter *

Christa Frieda Vogel Christa Frieda Vogel is a German photographer who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She has published several photo books and presented her work in national and international exhibitions. Biography Christa Frieda Vogel was born in 1960 in Mep ...

(born 1960), photographer

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Grete Waldau Grete Waldau was a German painter and mural artist who specialized in architectural painting. Some of her works were owned by Carol I, the king of Romania, and Wilhelm II, the German emperor. Life and career Waldau was born on 14 March 1868 in Br ...

(born 1868), architectural painter, mural artist *

Emmi Walther Emmi Louise Walther (30 October 1860, Hamburg - 11 September 1936, Dachau) was a German painter, graphic artist and watercolorist. Most of her works are in the Art Nouveau or Symbolist styles. Biography She was born to a middle-class family ...

(1860–1936), painter *

Maria Dorothea Wagner Maria Dorothea Wagner (1719 - 1792) was a German painter and drafter. She was primarily a landscape artist, focusing on the landscape of Saxony. Life and work Maria Dorothea Wagner was born in 1719 in Weimar. Her father was a court painter for ...

(1719–1792), painter *

Corinne Wasmuht Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist based in Berlin."Corinne Wasmuht CV ...

(born 1964), painter *

Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (25 January 1815 – 6 December 1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, bein ...

(1815–1901), Germany's first professional female photographer with a studio in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

from 1843 *

Hanna Weil Hanna Weil (1921–2011) was a German-born British artist, notable as a painter and teacher. Biography Weil was born in Munich in 1921 and, after her family moved to England in 1932 to escape the establishment of Nazi Germany, she attended the ...

(1921–2011), painter *

Gisela Weimann Gisela Weimann (born June 10, 1943) is a German multimedia artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her working techniques range from painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and film to performance art and art in public spaces. She has also ...

(born 1943), visual artist, feminist * Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born 1972), contemporary artist *

Anna Maria Werner Anna Maria Werner, née Haid (1688–1753) was a German painter. Her maiden name has sometimes been given as Hayd or Heid, and her married name as Wernerin or Vernerin;

(1688–1753), painter *

Anna Werner Anna Werner (born Munich, 1941) is a German photographer. She is, in particular, known for her membership of :de:Der Harem, Der Harem - described variously as a "virtual commune" or a "self-discovery group" - around Rainer Langhans. Life Anna ...

(born 1941), photographer * Clara Westhoff (1878–1954), sculptor *

Brigitta Westphal Brigitta Westphal (born 1944) is a German painter. Westphal was born in Burgoberbach/Middle Franconia, Germany. She grew up in Franconia and lived in Frankfurt for a long time. In past years she has lived partly in southern Tuscany, Italy. Westp ...

(born 1944), painter *

Marianne Wex Marianne Wex (13 July 1937 in Hamburg – 13 October 2020monopol. ''Magazin ...

(born 1937), feminist photographer *

Eva Janina Wieczorek Eva Janina Wieczorek (born May 23, 1951) in Katowice in Poland. She is a visual artist. 490 / 5.000 She is a German painter, a draftsman and sculptor. She is an artist whose works were shown in prices, publications, collections and exhibitions ...

(born 1951), painter * Anne Winterer (1894–1938), photographer *

Lilli Wislicenus Lilli Wislicenus, born Elisabeth Emma Charlotte Finzelberg (1872–1939) was a German sculptor. Biography Wislicenus née Finzelberg was born in 1872 in Andernach. For a time she lived with her uncle, the painter Hermann Wislicenus in Duesseldo ...

(1872–1939), sculptor *

Herma Auguste Wittstock Herma Auguste Wittstock (born 1977 in Peine, Germany) is a German performance artist. She lives in Berlin. Wittstock has been compared to Marina Abramović in including pain and body exploitation in her work. Wittstock studied Fine Arts at Braun ...

(born 1977), performance artist *

Karla Woisnitza Karla Woisnitza (born 16 August 1952) is a German artist. Life Woisnitza was born in Rüdersdorf. Before she went to art school, she took part in a drawing group in her hometown led by the artist Erika Stürmer-Alex. She studied set design fr ...

(born 1952), fresco painter *

Ursula Wolff Schneider Ursula Flora Schneider (Wolff) (popularly known as Ursula Wolff Schneider) (August 14, 1906 – August 1977) was a German photographer and photojournalist. Her photographs of the pre-World War II period are a significant record of the society an ...

(1906–1977), photographer and photojournalist * Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944), painter * Emmy Worringer (1878–1961), avant-garde artist

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* Wilhelmine von Zenge (1780–1852), pastellist * Thekla Zielke (born 1928), ceramic artist *

Margaretha Ziesenis Margaretha Ziesenis was a German portrait painter and miniaturist. She was a daughter of the painter Johann Georg Ziesenis Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716, Copenhagen – 4 March 1776, Hannover) was a German – Danish portrait painter. Life His f ...

(born c. 1740s), miniaturist *

Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer was a German painter active around 1800. Daughter of the painter , Zimmer was married to painter and draughtsman Johann Samuel Zimmer; upon his death she married her cousin, painter Joseph Dantieux. Active in Göttingen, ...

(fl. 1800), portrait painter *

Unica Zürn Unica Zürn (6 July 1916 – 19 October 1970) was a German author and artist. Zürn is remembered for her works of anagram poetry and automatic drawing and for her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer. An exhibition of Bellmer and Zür ...

(1916–1970), artist and writer *

Bettina von Zwehl Bettina von Zwehl (born 1971) is a German artist who lives and works in London. She has centred her artistic practice on photography, installation and archival exploration evolving through artist-residencies in museums. Her work explores represent ...

(born 1971), photographer

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