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Hannah 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 constructions that reflect the political and social climate of the time. She was especially vocal through her work on the topic of gender, and many…
Read More Rosemarie 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 series Knitted Paintings made of machine knit fabrics. Especially through this medium, her works address and challenge artistic production and its connection to gender and…
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Marie 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 Munich, and later the first female master student. She drew much of her inspiration from her religion, believing that her talent was God’s gift and…
Read More Marianne 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. The metal workshop was a male dominated discipline, but Brandt was so talented that she became much more successful in the medium than her male…
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Born 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 in 1741 until 1960, she gave up painting for personal reasons. As a formal return to painting in 1761, she was invited to the court…
Read More Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist, working on abstract and photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces.
Read More Paula 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 depictions of women and children which disregarded the romanticized depictions of her male peers. These experimentations culminated in her self-portraits in which she often depicted…
Read More Emil 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 to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice…
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or “The Bridge”, a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon…
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Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.…
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Agnes Lawrence Pelton was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton’s work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early “Imaginative Paintings,”…
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Franz 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 influenced by his father who was a landscape painter. At the age of nineteen, he enrolled in the arts program at Munich University. In 1903…
Read More German-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 outside of Berlin to avoid bombings as her mother became a war nurse. Her father died when she was four, and her parents were never…
Read More Kollwitz 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, sculpting, and printmaking. The artist mainly focused on the perspective of grieving mothers. She began formal art-making at twelve years old but started working with…
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August Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde…
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Albrecht Dürer (German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the…
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