This is a list of women artists who were born in

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or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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* Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer *

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), abstract painter * Elisabeth von Adlerflycht (1775–1846), painter *

Anni Albers Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Early life and education Anni Albers was born Ann ...

(1899–1994), German-American textile artist, printmaker * Nykolai Aleksander (born 1978), digital artist *

Elisabeth Andrae Louise Elisabeth Andrae (3 August 1876, Leipzig – 1945, Dresden) was a German Post-Impressionist landscape painter and watercolorist. Biography She studied with two landscape painters; in Dresden and Hans von Volkmann in Karlsruhe. She set ...

(1876–1945), painter *

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(1894–1981), painter, art teacher, writer, pacifist *

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), painter *

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), artist * Ursula Arnold (1929–2012), photographer * Irene Awret (1921–2014), artist, author and Holocaust survivor * Eva Aschoff (1900–1969), visual artist

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* Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli (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 Bele Bachem ( née Renate Gabriele Bachem) (17 May 1916 – 5 June 2005) was a German graphic artist, book illustrator, stage designer and writer. In 1997, Bachem was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Life and work ...

(1916–2005), graphic artists, illustrator, stage designer and writer * Nina Lola Bachhuber (born 1971), sculptor, installation artist, artist *

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), painter *

Alma del Banco Alma Aline Henriette del Banco (1862-1943) was a German modernist painter of Jewish ancestry. Life and work She came from an assimilated Jewish family. Her father, Eduard Moses del Banco (1810–1881), ran a business selling tobacco products, ...

(1862–1943), modernist painter * Tina Bara (born 1962), photographer * Caroline Bardua (1781–1864), painter *

Uta Barth Uta Barth (born 1958) is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreg ...

(born 1958), photographer *

Carla Bartheel Carla Bartheel (born Charlotte Franziska Johanna Barthel, 5 July 1902 – 28 December 1983) was a German film actress and photographer.Giesen p.200 Biography Carla Bartheel was born Charlotte Franziska Johanna Barthel on 5 July 1902. She took act ...

(1902–1983), actress and photographer *

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), painter *

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), painter * Mary Baumeister (born 1934), artist *

Hilla Becher Hilla Becher (; 2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015) was a German conceptual photographer. Becher was well known for her industrial photographs, or typologies, with longtime collaborator and husband, Bernd Becher. Her career spanned more than ...

(1934–2015), photographer *

Katharina Behrend Katharina Eleonore Behrend (July 22, 1888 – November 15, 1973) was a German-born Dutch photographer who is remembered for a wide variety of photographic genres including a nude self-portrait. Biography Born in Leipzig, she grew up in a well-to-d ...

(1888–1973), photographer *

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 ...

(1932–2015), German-American painter *

Sibylle Bergemann Sibylle Bergemann (29 August 1941 – 1 November 2010) was a German photographer. In 1990, she co-founded the Ostkreuz photographers agency. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her inter ...

(1941–2010), photographer *

(1881–1964), painter and opera singer *

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), painter * Olga Beggrow-Hartmann (1862–1922), German/Russian, painter * Julia Behr (fl.1865–1890s), portrait painter *

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), religious painter *

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), painter * Josefa Berens-Totenohl (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 Am ...

(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 (1906–1973), textile artist *

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), painter *

Aenne Biermann Aenne Biermann (March 8, 1898 – January 14, 1933), born Anna Sibilla Sternfeld, was a German photographer of Ashkenazi origin. She was one of the major proponents of New Objectivity, a significant art movement that developed in Germany in th ...

(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 famil ...

(1899–1998), avant-garde photographer * Frieda Blell (1874–1951), landscape painter * Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719), flower painter * Anna Blume (1937–2020), photographer *

Bärbel Bohley Bärbel Bohley (24 May 1945 – 11 September 2010) was an East German opposition figure and artist. Biography As an artist, Bohley won prizes from the authorities, including a trip to the Soviet Union. Her opposition to the government did n ...

(1945–2010), artist, East German opposition figure *

Cosima von Bonin Cosima von Bonin (born 1962) is a German contemporary artist. von Bonin's practice features the use of sculptures, textiles, sound, film and performances. von Bonin draws inspiration from the intellectual, artistic, and musical culture of her neigh ...

(born 1962), contemporary artist * Paula Bonte (1840–1902), painter * Madeleine Boschan (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 process. She was the sister of the photographer Hermann Biow who had established a studio ...

(1813–c. 1858), photographer *

Pola Brändle Pola Brändle (born April 7, 1980, in Aachen, Germany) is a German collage/decollage artist who lives and works in Berlin Kreuzberg, Germany. Life Brändle grew up in Aachen, and, after graduating from high school, she joined the M ...

(born 1980), collage artist *

Kerstin Brätsch Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979) is a German contemporary visual artist. She is primarily known as a painter, also making work collaboratively as DAS INSTITUT (with artist Adele Röder) and KAYA (with artist Debo Eilers).Garutti, Francesco"Das Insti ...

(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 daughter ...

(1909–2001), photographer * Dora Bromberger (1881–1942), painter *

Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl Theresia is the usual Dutch and German form of the name Teresa, and may refer to: * Theresia of Dietrichstein (1768–1822), German countess and noted beauty * Edith Stein (1891–1942), also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, German Jewi ...

(1784–1844), pastellist *

Hede Bühl Hede Bühl (8 June 1940, Haan, near Düsseldorf) is a German sculptor who lives and works in Düsseldorf. She studied under Joseph Beuys and worked in the studio of Ewald Mataré. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Villa Roma ...

(born 1940), sculptor *

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), painter *

Andrea Büttner Andrea Büttner (born 1972) is a German artist. She works in a variety of media including woodcuts, reverse glass paintings, sculpture, video, and performance. She creates connections between art history and social or ethical issues, with a parti ...

(born 1972), multi-medium artist

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Maria Caspar-Filser Maria Caspar-Filser (7 August 1878 - 12 February 1968) was a German painter. She lived and worked mainly in Munich. Life and work Maria Filser grew up in rural southwestern Germany. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and ...

(1878–1968), painter * Dorothea Chandelle (1784–1866), painter * Suzanne Chodowiecka (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 (fl. 1668–1677), miniaturist *

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), painter *

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), painter *

Helga von Cramm Baroness Helga von Cramm (1840–1919) was a German and Swiss painter, illustrator and graphic artist. Early life Baroness Helga von Cramm was the eldest child of Wolf Frederick Adolf von Cramm-Burchard (1812–1879) and his wife Hedwig (1 ...

(1840–1919), painter, illustrator and graphic artist * Alice Creischer (born 1960), artist, writer and theorist

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Anna Dabis Anna Dabis (1847–13 March 1927) was a German sculptor who spent a large part of her career in Britain. Biography Dabis was born on the island of Rügen in Germany, where her father was a pastor. After her parents died at an early age, Dabis w ...

(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 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), contemporary painter * Marie Davids (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 (1886–1922), painter, engraver and illustrator * Selma Des Coudres (1883–1956), painter *

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), painter * Adelheid Dietrich (1827–1891), still life painter * Minya Diez-Dührkoop (1873–1929), photographer * Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1773), painter and engraver *

Jacqueline Diffring Jacqueline Diffring (7 February 1920 – 28 September 2020) was a German-British sculptor. She was also the sister of actor Anton Diffring. Life and work Diffring was born in Koblenz, Germany in February 1920. She began her artistic studies as ...

(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. She ...

(1736–1791), painter * Louise Droste-Roggemann (1865–1945), painter * Inge Druckrey (born 1940), graphic designer and educator * Tatjana Doll (born 1970), contemporary painter * Dr. Gindi (born 1965), sculptor * Louise Droste-Roggemann (1865–1945), painter * Ruth Duckworth (1919–2009), German-American sculptor and ceramist

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* Julie von Egloffstein (1792–1869), painter * Marli Ehrman (1904–1982), German-born American textile artist *

Michaela Eichwald Michaela Eichwald (born 1967) is a German painter based in Berlin. Her work mostly consists of abstract paintings using mixed media (including acrylic and oil paints, spray paint, wax, lacquer, paper) on different surfaces ( pleather, fabrics). Ar ...

(born 1967), painter *

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), landscape painter * Frauke Eigen (born 1969), photographer * Marie Ellenrieder (1791–1863), painter * Clara Ewald (1859–1948), painter

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* Gertrude Fehr (1895–1996), photographer *

Anke Feuchtenberger Anke Feuchtenberger (born 1963, in East Berlin) is a German artist and cartoonist. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 1997, she has held a professorship for drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She is a mother and ...

(born 1963), painter, comics artist * Adele von Finck (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 th ...

(1892–1975), sculptor * Maria Elektrine von Freyberg (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 self ...

(1874–1927), avant-garde artist, poet *

Mathilde Freiin von Freytag-Loringhoven Mathilde Freiin von Freytag-Loringhoven (1860–1941) was a German artist and critic. Biography Freytag-Loringhoven was born on 30 October 1860 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was a student of Karl Buchholz, Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm, Leopold ...

(1860–1941), painter, writer *

Eva Frankfurther Eva Frankfurther (10 February 1930 – January 1959) was a German-born British artist known for her depictions of the immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s. Biography Frankfurther was born in the Dahlem (Berlin), Dahlem d ...

(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, and produced a number of admired bouquets in oil an ...

(1749–1815), flower painter *

Katharina Fritsch Katharina Fritsch (born 14 February 1956) is a German sculptor."Katharina Fritsch: Arti ...

(born 1956), sculptor * Helene Funke (1869–1957), painter and graphic designer

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* Edith Galliner (1914–2000), painter, potter *

Anna Rosina de Gasc Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

(1713–1783), portrait painter * Sylke von Gaza (born 1966), abstract painter *

Anna Margarethe Geiger Anna Margaretha Geiger (1783–1809) was a German pastellist. Her middle name is sometimes given as Margarete or Margareta. Born in Schweinfurt, Geiger was the daughter of painter , and took lessons with as well. In 1806 she went to Bamberg and ...

(1783–1809), pastellist * Senta Geißler (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 (1852–1921), painter, etcher *

Helga Goetze Helga Sophia Goetze (12 March 1922 – 29 January 2008) was a German artist, writer and free love activist. Her works included embroidery, paintings and poetry. Life Helga Goetze was born in 1922 in Magdeburg. She lived there until the beginning ...

(1922–2008), embroiderer, poet, activist * Hilde Goldschmidt (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, Kurfür ...

(1859–1936), photographer and journalist * Sophia Goudstikker (1865–1924), Dutch-born German photographer and feminist * Dorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743), painter * Catrin G. Grosse (born 1964), painter, graphic designer and sculptor *

Katharina Grosse Katharina Grosse (born 2 October 1961) is a German artist. As an artist, Grosse's work employs a use of architecture, sculpture and painting. She is known for her large-scale, site-related installations to create immersive visual experiences. Sh ...

(born 1968), artist * Rita Grosse-Ruyken (born 1948), contemporary artist *

Annelie Grund Annelie Grund (born 28 June 1953, Berlin) is a German artist, stained glass artist, artist and musician. She lives in Wandlitz and is married to the architect Manfred Thon. Biography 1976 she acquired the diploma at the Humboldt University ...

(born 1953), glass artist * Sabina Grzimek (born 1942), sculptor * Julia Gunther (born 1979), photographer and documentary cinematographer

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* Lisel Haas (1898–1989), theatre photographer * Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902–1973), German-Jewish artist *

Esther Haase Esther Haase is a German photographer. Biography Haase was born in Bremen, the first daughter of illustrator Sibylle Haase-Knels and Fritz Haase. Her father worked as a professor of communication design at the University of the Arts Bremen. In ...

(born 1966), photographer and film director * Godela Habel (1929–2022), painter * Sarah Haffner (1940–2018), German-British painter and writer * Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902–1973), German-Jewish painter *

Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz ( – ) was a Baltic German painter, primarily of portraits. Biography She was the daughter of the painter August Matthias Hagen; born while her parents were on a painting excursion. She displayed an early in ...

(1824–1902), portrait painter * Marie Hager (1872–1947), painter * Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001), abstract painter * Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann (1862–1934), painter and lithographer *

Tina Haim-Wentscher Tina Haim-Wentscher also: ''Tina Haim-Wentcher'' (17 December 1887 – 21 April 1974) was a German-Australian sculptor. Life Tina Haim-Wentscher was born in 1887 in Constantinople, the daughter of Serbian merchant David Leon Haim and his Itali ...

(1887–1974), (aka ''Tina Haim-Wentcher''), German-Australian sculptress *

Andrea Hanak Andrea Hanak (born 1969 Wolfratshausen) is a German painter. In 2000, she studied at the Erasmus programme, Ireland. In 2005, she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she studied with Günther Förg. She lives and works in Munich. ...

(born 1969), painter * Sandra Hastenteufel (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 installations ...

(born 1971), German-born Canadian conceptual, installation artist * Roswitha Hecke (born 1944), photographer *

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), painter * Susan Hefuna (born 1962), visual artist *

Marta Hegemann Marta Hegemann (February 14, 1894 – January 28, 1970) was a German artist associated with the Dada movement and with the Cologne Progressives. She was a founding member of the Cologne art group Stupid. Life Hegemann was born in Düsseldorf an ...

(1894–1970), avant-garde painter *

Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683 – November 5, 1757) was a German artist and alchemist and the mother of a celebrated child prodigy, Christian Heinrich Heineken. Family Born in Lübeck, she was the daughter of painter Franz Oesterreich and t ...

(1683–1757), artist and alchemist *

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), painter *

Annemarie Heinrich Annemarie Heinrich (9 January 1912 – 22 September 2005) was a German-born naturalized Argentine photographer, who specialized in portraits and nude photographs. Heinrich is considered one of Argentina's most important photographers. She is kno ...

(1912–2005), German-born Argentine photographer *

Carola Helbing-Erben Carola Helbing-Erben is a German artist. She has worked primarily in textiles and in the creation of tapestries, and also as a mosaic artist and painter. Biography Helbing-Erben was born in 1952 in Halle (Saale) in East Germany. She attended un ...

, textile artist * Amalia von Helvig (1776–1831), artist, writer, who moved to Sweden * Ingrid Hermentin (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 (born 1960), German-American painter *

Lotte Herrlich Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956) was a German photographer. She is regarded as the most important female photographer of the German naturism. This mainly was during the 1920s, in which the ''Freikorperkultur'' (''Free Body Culture'') was popular withi ...

(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 Vera Hilger (born 1971) is a German painter. Life and work Vera Hilger was born in Schleiden, Germany, * 1991 - 1993 Vera Hilger studied Philosophy and German studies at the RWTH Aachen University * 1993 - 1997 graduation from the Maastricht ...

(born 1971), painter *

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), painter *

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), avant-garde artist * Sophie Hoechstetter (1873–1943), painter, poet * Marta Hoepffner (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 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), painter and graphic artist *

Bettina Hohls Bettina Hohls (born 26 June 1947, in Celle) is a German artist and designer. She raised the attention of an international audience with her design and photographic work for the covers of two Peter Hammill albums in 1973 and 1974 as well as with h ...

(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 ma ...

(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 Sabine Hornig (born 1964, West Germany) is a German visual artist and photographer who lives and works in Berlin. Her work in photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation art is known for her interpretations of modernist architecture an ...

(born 1964), photographer *

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), nun, artist * Irma Hünerfauth (1907–1998), painter, sculptor and object artist * Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915–2009), sculptor * Auguste Hüssener (1789–1877), engraver and miniaturist * Walde Huth (1923–2011), photographer

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* Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), German-American photographer *

Ruth Jacobsen Ruth Jacobsen (8 April 1932 - 19 February 2019) was a German-born lesbian artist and a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. During the Second World War, she fled with her parents to the Netherlands where she was hidden by the Dutch resistance until sh ...

(1932–2019), German-born American artist, collages of the Holocaust * Hedwig Jarke (1882–1949), printmaker * Marie Jensen (1845–1921), painter * Charlotte Joël (1887–1943), photographer * Ilse Jonas (1884–1922), painter * Brigitte Jurack (born 1962), sculptor *

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), painter

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Amalie Kärcher Amalie Kärcher (1819–1887) was a German painter who produced still life and flower paintings. She was born in Durlach and died in Karlsruhe. She is known for works produced in Karlsruhe during the years 1846–1875.Amalie Kärcher in the R ...

(1819–1887), fruit and flower painter * Henriette Agnete Kitty von Kaulbach (1900–1992), German-Dutch painter * Johanna Keimeyer (born 1982), photographer, artist * Maria Countess von Kalckreuth (1857–1897), painter * Annette Kelm (born 1975), contemporary artist, photographer *

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), painter *

Inge King Ingeborg Viktoria "Inge" King (; 26 November 1915 – 23 April 2016) was a German-born Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is ''Forward S ...

(1915–2016), German-born Australian sculptor * Astrid Kirchner (1938–2020), photographer, artist * Mary Louisa Kirschner (1852–1931), painter, glass artist * Johanna Kirsch (1856–1907), painter * Anna Klein (1883–1941), painter *

Barbara Klemm Barbara Klemm (born 27 December 1939 in Münster) is a German press photographer. She worked for ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' for 45 years. She photographed many of the most important events in recent German history and has received honors, ...

(born 1939), press photographer * Gabriele Koch (born 1948), studio potter *

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), 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 ''T ...

(1867–1945), painter, printmaker * Katrin Korfmann (born 1971), contemporary artist *

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), painter *

Marianne Kraus Maria Anna Walburga Lämmerhirt (nickname, "Marianne"; 8 May 1765 - 24 May 1838) was a German painter, drafter, travel writer, and lady-in-waiting. Through her diary, ''Für mich gemerkt auf meiner Reise nach Italien 1791'', she contributed to t ...

(1765–1838), painter, travel writer *

Susanne Kriemann Susanne Kriemann (born 1972 in Erlangen) is a German artist, photographer and professor at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Life and career Susanne Kriemann graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1997, where she ...

(born 1972), artist, photographer * Magda Kröner (1854–1935), painter * Monika Kropshofer (born 1952), photographer * Christiane Kubrick (born 1932), actress, dancer, painter and singer *

Germaine Krull Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner.Sichel, Kim. ''Germaine Krull: Photographer of Modernity''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999. . Her nationality has been catego ...

(1897–1985), photographer, activist * Marianne Kühn (1914–2005), politician and painter * Susanne Kühn (born 1969), painter *

Marie Kundt Marie Julia Berta Emma Kundt (4 February 1870 – 2 April 1932) was a German photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with l ...

(1870–1932), photographer and educator *

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

(1767–1809), history and genre painter * Barbara Kussinger (born 1970), painter

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Lotte Laserstein Lotte Laserstein (28 November 1898 – 21 January 1993) was a German-Swedish painter.
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(1898–1993), German-Swedish painter * Henni Lehmann (1862–1937), painter * Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943), painter * Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976), painter *

Erna Lendvai-Dircksen Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (born Erna Katherina Wilhelmine Dircksen, 31 May 1883 – 8 May 1962) was a German photographer known for a series of volumes of portraits of rural individuals from throughout Germany. During the Third Reich, she also photo ...

(1883–1962), photographer * Sabine Lepsius (1864–1942), portrait painter *

Esther Levine Esther Levine (born 1970 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German born, New York based photographer. After studying photography at the City College of New York from 1994 to 1996 she enrolled in the documentary photography program at the International Cen ...

(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 of ...

(1849–1918), painter * Emmy Lischke (1860–1919), painter * Clara Lobedan (1840–1918), painter * Elisabeth Loewe (1924–1996), Post-Expressionist painter *

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), painter * Christiane Löhr (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 il ...

(1899–1940), avant-garde artist *

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), painter *

(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 of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart. Early life Born in April 162 ...

(1622–1709), painter and abbess * Auguste Ludwig (1834–1901), painter * Almuth Lütkenhaus (1930–1996), sculptor *

Loretta Lux Loretta Lux (born 1969) is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She lives and works in Ireland. Life and work Lux was born in Dresden, East Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich ...

(born 1969), photographer * Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967), photographer * Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (1863–1923), painter

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* Hilke MacIntyre, contemporary ceramist * Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (1886–1930), portrait painter * Eva de Maizière (1915–2003), artist, sculptor and cellist *

Melanie Manchot Melanie Manchot (born 1966 in Witten) is a London-based visual artist who works with photography, film, video and installation as part of a performative and participatory practice. Her projects often explore specific sites and public spaces to l ...

(born 1966), photographer and installation artist * Jeanne Mandello (1907–2001), photographer * Henriette Manigk (born 1968), painter *

Maria Marc Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck (12 June 1876 - 25 January 1955), was a German artist. She is also known as the wife of the painter Franz Marc. Biography She was born on 12 June 1876 in Berlin, Germany. She attended the ''Unterrich ...

(1876–1953), painter, textile artist *

Hedwig Marquardt Hedwig Marquardt (28 November 1884 – 14 April 1969) is one of a relatively small number of women artists whose work belongs to the German Expressionism, German expressionist tradition. Education and artistic influences Hedwig Frieda Käthe M ...

(1884–1969), ceramist and painter *

Therese Maron Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs; 1725 – October 10, 1806), was a German (Saxon) painter, for most of her life active in Rome. She was the elder sister of more known painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Therese was born in northern Bohemian t ...

(1725–1806), painter * Ellen Marx (born 1939), artist and author * Toni Mau (1917–1981), painter, graphic artist and educator * Susanna Mayr (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 studied ...

(fl. 1990s), contemporary artist * Ada Mee (born 1946), multi-media artist *

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), painter *

Anna Maria Mengs Anna Maria Mengs, or Ana Carmona (1751–1792), was a German artist; known largely for portraits. Biography Born in Dresden, she was the daughter of the painter Raphael Mengs and his wife, Margarita Guazzi. She studied art with her father. In ...

(1751–1792), painter *

Julia Charlotte Mengs Julia Charlotte Mengs (c. 1730 – after 1806) was a German painter. Julia Charlotte was born in Bohemia, into the Lutheran family of Danish painter Ismael Mengs, a ''hofmaler'' (court painter) at the court of Saxonian-Polish electors and kin ...

(c.1730–c.1806), painter * Anne Menke (born 1967), German-American photographer * Adelheid Mers (born 1960), multi-disciplinary artist * Immeke Mitscherlich (1899–1985), textile artist *

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), Expressionist painter * Una H. Moehrke (born 1953), painter * Marg Moll (1884–1977), sculptor, painter and writer *

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), painter and graphic designer * Hedda Morrison (1908–1991), photographer *

Auguste Müller Auguste Müller (1847 in Seiffen – 1930) was a German folk carver, who was involved in Seiffen's traditional Wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains, wooden toymaking. Her works made from waste wood are now counted among the most valuable pieces o ...

(1847–1930), woodcarver, toymaker * Karin Apollonia Müller (born 1963), contemporary artist *

Gabriele Münter Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding mem ...

(1877–1962), Expressionist painter

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* Susanne von Nathusius (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 Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney (26 January 1833 – 29 June 1907) was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe G ...

(1833–1907), sculptor *

Anja Niedringhaus Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography f ...

(1965–2014), photojournalist *

Margret Nissen Margret Nissen (born Margarete Speer; 19 June 1938) is a German photographer. She is a daughter of the German architect and high-ranked Nazi Party official Albert Speer (1905–1981). Margret was named after her mother. She lived in Obersalzbe ...

(born 1938), photographer * Elisabeth Noltenius (1888–1964), painter * Maria Nordman (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 socia ...

(1823–1885), painter * Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist, photographer * Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), photographer * Li Osborne (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor * Anna Kerstin Otto (born 1972), painter * Justine Otto (born 1974), painter *

Hermine Overbeck-Rohte Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (24 January 1869, Walsrode - 29 July 1937, Bremen) was a German landscape painter. Biography She was born to a family of leather manufacturers. She expressed an early desire to be a painter and received some lessons, b ...

(1869–1937), landscape painter

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* Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (1864–after 1930), painter * Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723), painter and engraver * Louise Pagenkopf (1856–1922), landscape painter * Margarete Palz (born 1937), textile artist * Jeannette Papin (1761–1835), painter * Helga Paris (born 1938), photographer * Lina von Perbandt (1836–1884), landscape painter * Anna Peters (1843–1926), landscape and flower painter *

Lilo Peters Lilo Peters, born Liselotte Elfriede Anna Gertrud Erdmunde Noetzel (17 March 1913 – 2 April 2001) was a North German painter and sculptor. Family Lilo Peters was born in Hamburg and her father was an engineer, and her mother was a milliner. ...

(1913–2001), painter and sculptor *

Pietronella Peters Pietronella Peters (1848-1924) was a German painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes of children. Biography She was born to Pieter Francis Peters, a Dutch landscape painter, and his wife, Heinrike Gertrude née Mali. Her grandf ...

(1848–1924), portrait painter * Carlotta Ida Popert (1848–1923), German-Italian watercolourist, etcher *

Charlotte Posenenske Charlotte Posenenske, née ''Mayer'' (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominantly worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper. Posenenske created series of sculptures tha ...

(1930–1985), sculptor *

Bettina Pousttchi Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971) is a German artist. She currently lives in Berlin. She has worked in photography, sculpture, video and site-specific installation. Life In 1990-1992, she studied fine art at the Université de Paris. Then in 1 ...

(born 1971), German-Iranian sculptor, photographer, filmmaker * Maria Katharina Prestel (1747–1794), painter, etcher * Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918), painter, writer * Emilie Preyer (1849–1930), painter * Barbara Probst (born 1964), German-American photographer *

Anne-Katrin Purkiss Anne-Katrin Purkiss is a photographer, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany in 1959 and moving to Britain in 1984 after graduating from University of Leipzig in 1983. Her father Joachim Seyffarth (1928-2014) was a German curator of monuments and photog ...

(born 1959), photographer *

Doramaria Purschian Doramaria Purschian (July 6, 1890 – July 11, 1972) was a German artist known for her Expressionist landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. Early life and education She was born Ella Margaretha Maria Dora Purschian in Berlin, the daughter of ...

(1890–1972), Expressionist painter * Karin Putsch-Grassi (born 1960), potter

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Doris Raab Doris Raab (19 October 1851 – 1933) was a German etcher and engraver. Biography Raab was born on 19 October 1851 in Nuremberg. She was the daughter of the artist Johann Leonhard Raab who was also her teacher. Doris Raab exhibited her work ...

(1851–1933), print-maker * Erna Raabe (1882–1938), painter * Dorothee Raetsch (born 1940), sculptor, graphic artist *

Katja Rahlwes Katja Rahlwes (born 1967, Frankfurt, Germany) is a German fashion photographer, based in Paris. Biography Katja Rahlwes left Germany at the age of 16 for London and then moved to Paris in 1988 to study fashion design at Studio Berçot, Paris. ...

(born 1967), fashion photographer *

Katharina Rapp Katharina Rapp (born 1948) is a German artist. Katharina Rapp was born in war-torn southern Germany. After completing her high school education, she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, then to London where she met her husband. She later move ...

(born 1948), painter * Sandra Rauch (born 1967), painter *

Hilla von Rebay Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay (31 May 1890 – 27 September 1967), was an abstract art, abstract artist in the early 20th century and co-founder and first di ...

(1890–1967), abstract artist, co-founder of the

Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...

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 s ...

(1885–1933), avant-garde painter *

Margaretha Reichardt Margaretha Reichardt (6 March 1907 – 25 May 1984), also known as Grete Reichardt, was a textile artist, Weaving, weaver, and graphic designer from Erfurt, Germany.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., 200 ...

student * Margarethe von Reinken (1877–1962), painter * Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964), photographer *

Christophine Reinwald Christophine Reinwald (born Elisabetha Christophine Friederike Schiller; September 4, 1757 – August 31, 1847) was a German artist, the eldest sister of Friedrich Schiller. Born Elisabetha Christophine Friederike Schiller in Marbach am Neckar, ...

(1757–1847), painter * Regina Relang (1906–1989), fashion photographer *

Jack von Reppert-Bismarck Elsa 'Jack' von Reppert-Bismarck, (1903 - 1971), painter ('neuen deutschen Frau' and ''kunstmalerin''). She was born Elisabeth Meyer, in Berlin on 10 February 1903 and died at Herkenrath near Cologne on 21 July 1971. Von Reppert became a bit of ...

(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 leader, ...

(1853–1903), painter * Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965), painter * Evelyn Richter (1930–2021), photographer * Ursula Richter (1886–1946), theatre photographer * Frieda Riess (1890–c .1955), portrait photographer * Adele Röder (born 1980), painter *

Emy Roeder Emy Roeder (30 January 1890 – 7 February 1971) was a modern German sculptor born in Würzburg, Germany. During the first third of the twentieth century she was one of a number of women that were associated with the German Expressionist movement ...

(1890–1971), sculptor * Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), painter * Rita Rohlfing (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 work ...

(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 (born 1978), painter * Valeska Röver (1849–1931), painter * Julika Rudelius (born 1968), video and performance artist

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Lessie Sachs Lessie Sachs (1897–1942) was a German-born American poet and artist who was active during World War I and World War II. Biography Lessie Sachs was born in 1897 in Breslau, then a city in the German Empire. She was the only child of neurologist ...

(1897–1942), poet and artist * Adelaïde Salles-Wagner (1825–1890), painter active in France *

Charlotte Salomon Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings ''Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel'' (Life? or Theater?: A ...

(1917–1943), painter * Christa Sammler (born 1932), sculptor * Eva Sandberg-Xiao (1911–2001), photographer *

Agnes Sander-Plump Agnes Sander-Plump (born Agnes Plump: 1 May 1888 – 23 December 1980) was a German painter. She was a member of the "Worpswede artists' colony". Biography One of six siblings, Agnes Plump grew up in Bremen where, it was said, the Plumps ...

(1888–1980), painter *

Amalia von Schattenhofer Amalia von Schattenhofer, born Amalia Schweinhammer-Baader (1763–1840) was a German art collector and amateur painter. Born in Erding to a physician, Georg Schewinhammer, who died when she was eight, Amalie was adopted by her stepfather, Ferdin ...

(1763–1840), art collector and amateur painter * Silke Schatz (born 1967), sculptor, installation artist *

Auguste Schepp Auguste Schepp (1846–1905) was a German painter. Biography Schepp was born on 3 April 1846 in Wiesbaden. She studied with studied with Eugen Napoleon Neureuther in Munich, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn in Düsseldorf. In 1892 Schepp settled in Munic ...

(1846–1905), painter *

Galka Scheyer Galka Scheyer (born Emilie Esther Scheyer; 15 April 1889, Braunschweig – 13 December 1945, Los Angeles) was a German-American painter, art dealer, art collector, and teacher. She was the founder of the "Blue Four," an artists' group that consist ...

(1889–1945), German-American painter, art collector and teacher * Ingrid Schmeck (born 1944), graphic artist * Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (1920–2021), painter * Julia Schmidt (born 1976), painter * Thyra Schmidt (born 1974), visual artist * Henriette Schneider (1747–1812), painter * Sophie Schneider (1866–1942), painter *

Stefanie Schneider Stefanie Schneider (born 1968) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographs exhibit the appearance of expired Polaroid instant film, with its chemical mutations. It has been released in books and exhibition c ...

(born 1968), photographer * Doris Schoettler-Boll (1945–2015), artist, curator and teacher * Eva Schorr (1927–2016), painter and composer * Bertha Schrader (1845–1920), painter *

Martina Schradi Martina Schradi (/ʃʁadi/ born 1972) is a German author, cartoonist and certified psychologist from Nuremberg. She is known for ''Oh, I see?!,'' a collection of comics depicting the daily lives and struggles of people in the LGBT*I community. ...

(born 1972), writer, cartoonist *

Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (born 1904 in Duisburg, Germany; died 1995 in Erkrath, Germany) was a German painter. She was born in Duisburg as the daughter of an old family of merchants. An ancestor on her father's side was a draughtsman at the cour ...

(1904–1995), painter * Käthe Schuftan (1899–1958), painter and draftsman * Anna Schuleit Haber (born 1974), visual artist *

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938) is a German photographer and artist known for the conceptual series (mostly black and white) photographs. She lives and works in Düsseldorf. Schulz-Dornburg received the 2016 AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from t ...

(born 1938), photographer * Martina Schumacher (born 1972), conceptual artist * Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907–1976), painter and graphic artist, resistance fighter *

Regine Schumann Regine Schumann (born February 23, 1961) is a German artist who is classified as a light artist and a contemporary art painter and installation artist. Life and work Regine Schumann studied from 1982 to 1989 at the Hochschule für Bildene Kün ...

(born 1961), contemporary painter and installation artist *

Else Seifert Else Seifert (9 December 1879 – 23 June 1968) was a German architectural photographer and teacher from Dresden. Biography Else Seifert was born in Dresden in 1879 to Karl Robert Seifert, a merchant, and Klara Amalie Juliane (née Schiertz). She ...

(1879–1968), architectural photographer *

Else Sehrig-Vehling Else Sehrig-Vehling (26 May 1897 in Düsseldorf – 12 February 1994 in Bad SalzuflenEntry on the birth certification (civil registration office Düsseldorf-Mitte No. 3194) Microfilm Einwohnermelderegister (MF) Düsseldorf) was a German expressi ...

(1897–1994), Expressionist painter *

Louise Seidler Louise Seidler (15 May 1786, Jena - 7 October 1866, Weimar) was a German painter at the court of the grand dukes of Weimar, custodian of their art collection and a trusted friend of the poet Goethe and the painter Georg Friedrich Kersting. Life ...

(1786–1866), painter, custodian * Friederike Sieburg (1761–1835), pastellist * Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1899–1944), designer *

Katharina Sieverding Katharina Sieverding (born 16 November 1944) is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life and educati ...

(born 1944), photographer * Pola Sieverding (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 h ...

(1862–1945), Symbolist painter *

Ludovike Simanowiz Kunigunde Sophie Ludovike Simanowiz (née Reichenbach; February 21, 1759, Schorndorf - September 3, 1827, Ludwigsburg) was a German portrait painter in the Classical style. Biography Her father was a military feldsher and her mother was the da ...

(1759–1827), portrait painter * Zuzanna Skiba (born 1968), painter *

Maria Slavona Maria Slavona, born Marie Dorette Caroline Schorer (14 March 1865, Lübeck - 10 May 1931, Berlin) was a German impressionist painter. Life Her father, , was a pharmacist and politician who was known for his campaign to improve the quality o ...

(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, whil ...

(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 black ...

(born 1946), visual artist * Margarethe Sömmering (1768–1802), painter *

Kathrin Sonntag Kathrin Sonntag (born 1981) is a visual artist who works in photography, sculpture, film, and installations. Her work has been exhibited in museums including the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. ...

(born 1981), visual artist * Catharina Sperling-Heckel (1699–1741), painter and etcher * Gertrud Staats (1859–1938), painter * Pia Stadthäuser (born 1959), sculptor * Jonny Star (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist * Birgit Stauch (born 1961), contemporary sculptor * Marél von Steinling (born 1933), painter *

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

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Dora Stock Dora (shortened from Doris or Dorothea) Stock (6 March 1760 – 30 March 1832) was a German artist of the 18th and 19th centuries who specialized in portraiture. She was at the center of a highly cultivated household in which a great number of art ...

(1760–1832), painter * Minna Stocks (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 pictoria ...

(1897–1983), textile artist *

Madeleine Strindberg Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955) is a German-born painter, winner of the 1998 Jerwood Painting Prize. Education Strindberg graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Art and Royal College of Art in 1985 with a master's degree in painting. Work Stri ...

(born 1955), painter * Helene Marie Stromeyer (1834–1924), painter * Erika Stürmer-Alex (born 1938), painter

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* Gerda Taro (1910–1937), war photographer *

Henriette-Félicité Tassaert Henriette-Félicité Tassaert (born 4 May 1766 in Paris; died 8 June 1818 in Berlin) was a German painter of Flemish extraction. Biography Born in Paris, Tassaert was a member of the Tassaert family of artists. She was the daughter of sculptor ...

(1766–1818), painter *

Ebba Tesdorpf Ebba Tesdorpf (23 January 1851 – 22 February 1920) was an illustrator and watercolorist from Hamburg, Germany. Life Tesdorpf came from a Hanseatic family. She was the daughter of businessman Hans Peter Friedrich Tesdorpf and Antoin ...

(1851–1920), illustrator and painter *

Anna Dorothea Therbusch Anna Dorothea Therbusch (born Anna Dorothea Lisiewski, pl, Anna Dorota Lisiewska, 23 July 1721 – 9 November 1782) was a prominent Rococo painter born in the Kingdom of Prussia. About 200 of her works survive, and she painted at least e ...

(1721–1782), Rococo painter *

Ulrike Theusner Ulrike Theusner( born 1982 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany) is a German artist working primarily in drawing and printmaking. She studied at École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice, France and graduated in 2008 from Bauhaus ...

(born 1982), printmaker * Elsa Thiemann (1910–1981), photographer *

Amalie Tischbein Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie Tischbein (born Apell, 1757—1839) was a German drawing artist, miniature painter and etcher from the Kassel branch of the Tischbein family of artists. She worked in Weimar, then Kassel. Life Amalie Tischbein was bo ...

(1757–1839), painter and etcher * Elisabeth Treskow (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 prof ...

(born 1952), contemporary artist * Alice Trübner (1875–1916), painter * Susanne Tunn (born 1958), sculptor

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* Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954), photographer

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Lette Valeska Lette Valeska (August 20, 1885 – January 8, 1985) was a photographer, painter and sculptor in the Hollywood community. When her husband's chemical plant was confiscated by the Nazi regime, she left her homeland of Germany and traveled with her ...

(1885–1985), painter * Jutta Vialon (1917–2004), photographer *

Clara Vogedes Clara Vogedes née Homscheidt (1892–1983) was a German painter. Life Clara Vogedes was born into an upper-middle-class family in Krefeld. At the end of her school years she studied foreign languages in Rolle on Lake Geneva, graduating w ...

(1892–1983), painter * Christa Frieda Vogel (born 1960), photographer

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* Grete Waldau (born 1868), architectural painter, mural artist * Emmi Walther (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 wel ...

from 1843 * Hanna Weil (1921–2011), painter * Gisela Weimann (born 1943), visual artist, feminist * Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born 1972), contemporary artist * Anna Maria Werner (1688–1753), painter * Anna Werner (born 1941), photographer *

Clara Westhoff Clara Westhoff (21 September 1878 in Bremen – 9 March 1954 in Fischerhude), also known as ''Clara Rilke'' or ''Clara Rilke-Westhoff'' was a pioneer German sculptor and artist. She was the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Early life At 17, W ...

(1878–1954), sculptor * Brigitta Westphal (born 1944), painter * Marianne Wex (born 1937), feminist photographer * Eva Janina Wieczorek (born 1951), painter *

Anne Winterer Anne Winterer (21 September 1894 – 17 August 1938) was a German photographer known for her industrial and cultural work. Her rediscovered work is in the German New Objectivity style and records particularly people's work at the time. Life Winter ...

(1894–1938), photographer * Lilli Wislicenus (1872–1939), sculptor * Herma Auguste Wittstock (born 1977), performance artist * Karla Woisnitza (born 1952), fresco painter * Ursula Wolff Schneider (1906–1977), photographer and photojournalist *

Julie Wolfthorn Julie Wolfthorn (8 January 1864 – 26 December 1944) was a German painter. Born as Julie Wolf(f) to a middle-class Jewish family, she later styled herself as Julie Wolfthorn after Thorn (Toruń), her city of birth. Life Wolfthorn was bor ...

(1864–1944), painter * Emmy Worringer (1878–1961), avant-garde artist

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* Yva (1900–1944), Jewish photographer

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Wilhelmine von Zenge Wilhelhmine von Zenge (20 August 1780 – 25 April 1852) was a German pastellist. Born either in Berlin or in Frankfurt, she was the daughter of a general, and became engaged to Heinrich von Kleist in 1800. In 1811, however, Kleist committed s ...

(1780–1852), pastellist * Thekla Zielke (born 1928), ceramic artist * Margaretha Ziesenis (born c. 1740s), miniaturist * Dorothea Schwartz Zimmer (fl. 1800), portrait painter * Unica Zürn (1916–1970), artist and writer * Bettina von Zwehl (born 1971), photographer

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