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Born in Bottrop, Germany, in 1888, Josef Albers was an influential figure in the abstract art world and taught many individuals about art throughout his lifetime. As a young adult,…
Read MoreEmil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered…
Read MoreHannah Höch was an artist of the Berlin Dada movement in the 1920s and onward. Her famous photomontages appropriate imagery clipped from popular media and compile them in her own…
Read MoreRosemarie Trockel is a German conceptual artist who teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She uses a broad range of material in her works but is best known for her 1985…
Read MoreMarie Ellenrieder was a German painter well-known for her portraits and religious pieces. In 1813, she became the first woman to admitted to the Academy of the Fine Arts in…
Read MoreMarianne Brandt was a German artist and designer who began her career studying at the Bauhaus school in Weimar and eventually heading the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau.…
Read MoreThe German artist Anni Fleischman Albers is known for her work in color theory, and in textiles, where she challenged the separate notions of art and craft. Her work was…
Read MoreBorn in Berlin in July of 1721 to a Polish family of artists, Anna Dorothea Therbusch worked as a professional portrait painter in Germany. From the beginning of her marriage…
Read MoreGerhard Richter is a German visual artist, working on abstract and photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces.
Read MorePaula Modersohn-Becker was a German artist with a distinctive style–which spanned Realism, Expressionism, and finally Fauvism–and even more striking subjects. She has gained recognition for her startling and almost unseemly…
Read MoreErnst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a German painter and printmaker. Born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Kirchner studied painting and architecture informally in Dresden before founding Die Brücke, an artists’ group considered…
Read MoreMax Beckmann was one of Germany’s leading 20th-century painters and printmakers, his largely allegorical Expressionistic works shaped by his experiences of war. Max Beckmann was born on February 12, 1884.…
Read MorePechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, as well as an important member of the Die Brücke group, formed in Dresden in 1905.
Read MoreFranz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the key figures of German Expressionism and Modernism. Marc was born in Munich in 1880 and was…
Read MoreGerman-born Canadian painter and draughtswoman, Pflug was born in Berlin in 1936, the daughter of a fashion designer, Regine Schütt. During World War II, she lived with friends and family…
Read MoreMichael Zeno Diemer was a German artist remembered for his panoramic paintings capturing mountainous landscapes and seascapes. He was born in Munich on February 8, 1867, and studied art at…
Read MoreHeckel was a founding member of the Die Brücke (\”The Bridge\”). His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics.
Read MoreKollwitz is considered one of the most important early 20th-century German artists. She worked to capture the working class hardships, such as war, starvation, poverty, and death, by drawing, painting,…
Read MoreGerman Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younger was born into a gifted family. His father, Lucas Cranach the Elder, brother, Hans Cranach, and his grandfather, were all artists. He apprenticed…
Read MoreAugust Macke was a German Expressionist painter. He grew up in a farming family, though he was first inspired by his father’s amateur works. He went to art school at…
Read MoreGerman engraver and map publisher Tobias Conrad Lotter was born in 1717. Lotter learned the map publishing trade by working at his father-in-law’s map business. After his father-in-law, Matthäus Seutter,…
Read MoreChristian Friederich Mayr was born in 1803 in Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. Christian’s father, Johann Daniel von Mayr, was a decorative artist and engraver and initiated his sons’ training at…
Read MoreMax Liebermann was born July 20th, 1847, in Berlin to an upper-class Jewish family. His father pressured him to be a businessman, so he enrolled at the University of Berlin…
Read MoreWilliam Wendt was a California Impressionist landscape painter best known for his role in developing the visual arts culture of southern California in the early 20th century. Born in 1865,…
Read MoreRumold Mercator (b. 1545 – d. 1599) was a German cartographer who primarily directed his professional efforts towards finishing the work that had been started by his father. Rumold Mercator…
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