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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 (1899–1994), German-American textile artist, printmaker * Nykolai Aleksander (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 (1929–2012), photographer * Irene Awret (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 (1733–1809 or later), miniaturist, pastelist and court painter * Elvira Bach (born 1951), painter * Bele Bachem (1916–2005), graphic artists, illustrator, stage designer and writer * Nina Lola Bachhuber (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 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 (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 (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 arti ...

(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 inte ...

(1941–2010), photographer *

(1881–1964), painter and opera singer * Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920), painter * Olga Beggrow-Hartmann (1862–1922), German/Russian, painter * Julia Behr (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 tape ...

(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 Ame ...

(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 (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 famil ...

(1899–1998), avant-garde photographer * Frieda Blell (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 (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 (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 Hermann Biow (1804 – 20 ...

(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 ...

(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 daughte ...

(1909–2001), photographer * Dora Bromberger (1881–1942), painter * Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl (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 Ro ...

(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 (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 (fl. c.1200), manuscript illuminator * Penelope Cleyn (fl. 1668–1677), miniaturist * Helene Cramer (1844–1916), painter * Molly Cramer (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 (18 ...

(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 (1941–2009), conceptual artist * Gabriela Dauerer (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 (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 (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 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 ...

(born 1965), sculptor * Louise Droste-Roggemann (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 (1792–1869), painter * Marli Ehrman (1904–1982), German-born American textile artist * Michaela Eichwald (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 Marie Ellenrieder (20 March 1791 – 5 June 1863) was a German painter known for her portraits and religious paintings. Life and career Ellenrieder was born in Konstanz, Germany in 1791, the daughter of Konrad and Anna Maria Herrmann, and ...

(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 (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 (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 district of Berli ...

(1930–1959), painter * Caroline Friederike Friedrich (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 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 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 122 ...

(1713–1783), portrait painter * Sylke von Gaza (born 1966), abstract painter * Anna Margarethe Geiger (1783–1809), pastellist * Senta Geißler (1902–2000), painter * Isa Genzken (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 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 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, 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 (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 o ...

(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 Raste ...

(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'' (2006) and ''Nothing to Lose'' (2008). Since the ...

(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 (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 (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 i ...

(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 (1887–1974), (aka ''Tina Haim-Wentcher''), German-Australian sculptress * Andrea Hanak (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 (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 Anna Amalia von Helvig (August 16, 1776 – September 17, 1831) was a German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, socialite, Salonist and culture personality. She is known as an inspiration for many artists. She was a member of the Royal Swe ...

(1776–1831), artist, writer, who moved to Sweden * Ingrid Hermentin (born 1951), computer graphic artist * Johanna Helena Herolt (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 Ma ...

(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 wi ...

(1883–1956), photographer of naturism * Eva Hesse (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 Ac ...

(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 (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 – 18 June 1994 in Bad Boll) was a German painter and graphic artist. She created about 9,000 paintings, images and portraits, presented in more than 100 exhibitions. Her experimental "structure pa ...

(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 her ...

(born 1947), artist and designer * Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (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 (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 Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosy ...

(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 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 (1884–1922), painter * Brigitte Jurack (born 1962), sculptor * Tina Juretzek (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 RK ...

(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 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 f ...

(1857–1897), painter * Annette Kelm (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 (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 Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where ...

(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'' a ...

(1867–1945), painter, printmaker * Katrin Korfmann (born 1971), contemporary artist * Emma Körner (1788–1815), painter * Marianne Kraus (1765–1838), painter, travel writer * Susanne Kriemann (born 1972), artist, photographer * Magda Kröner (1854–1935), painter * Monika Kropshofer (born 1952), photographer *

Christiane Kubrick Christiane Susanne Kubrick (née Harlan; born 10 May 1932) is a German actress. She was born into a theatrical family (her uncle was the film director Veit Harlan), and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999 ...

(born 1932), actress, dancer, painter and singer * Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer, activist * Marianne Kühn (1914–2005), politician and painter * Susanne Kühn (born 1969), painter * Marie Kundt (1870–1932), photographer and educator * Marianne Kürzinger (1767–1809), history and genre painter * Barbara Kussinger (born 1970), painter

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* Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993), German-Swedish painter * Henni Lehmann (1862–1937), painter * Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943), painter * Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976), painter * Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer *

Sabine Lepsius Sabine Lepsius (15 January 1864 – 22 November 1942) was a German portrait painter. Life She was born in Berlin as the daughter of portrait painter Gustav Graef and Franziska Liebreich (1824–1893), a lithographer. She studied with her fath ...

(1864–1942), portrait painter * Esther Levine (born 1970), German-American photographer * Sophie Ley (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 (1840–1918), painter * Elisabeth Loewe (1924–1996), Post-Expressionist painter * Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter * Christiane Löhr (born 1965), contemporary artist * Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), avant-garde artist * Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859–1932), painter * Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942), painter * Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (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 i ...

(born 1969), photographer * Rut Blees Luxemburg (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-born portrait painter who worked in Germany and the United States. She is known to have painte ...

(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 (born 1966), photographer and installation artist * Jeanne Mandello (1907–2001), photographer * Henriette Manigk (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 Painting, painter, Graphic designer, graphic artist and Professor (highest academic rank), arts academy teacher. Life Between 1934 and 1939, and again between 1941 and 1943, Toni Mau s ...

(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 (1901–1987), painter * Anna Maria Mengs (1751–1792), painter * Julia Charlotte Mengs (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 the ...

(1876–1907), Expressionist painter * Una H. Moehrke (born 1953), painter * Marg Moll (1884–1977), sculptor, painter and writer * Sabine Moritz (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. Her works made from waste wood are now counted among the most valuable pieces of Ore Mountain folk art Ore Mountai ...

(1847–1930), woodcarver, toymaker * Karin Apollonia Müller (born 1963), contemporary artist * Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), Expressionist painter

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* Susanne von Nathusius (1850–1929), portrait painter * Renee Nele (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 Gar ...

(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 Obersalzb ...

(born 1938), photographer * Elisabeth Noltenius (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 soci ...

(1823–1885), painter *

Méret Oppenheim Meret (or Méret) Elisabeth Oppenheim (6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985) was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. Early life Meret Oppenheim was born on 6 October 1913 in Berlin. She was named after Meretlein, a wild c ...

(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 (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor * Anna Kerstin Otto (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 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, bu ...

(1869–1937), landscape painter

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* Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (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. According ...

(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 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 (1843–1926), landscape and flower painter * Lilo Peters (1913–2001), painter and sculptor * Pietronella Peters (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 * Anita Rée (1885–1933), avant-garde painter * Margaretha Reichardt (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., 20 ...

student * Margarethe von Reinken (1877–1962), painter * Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964), photographer * Christophine Reinwald (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 (1890–1971), sculptor * Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), painter * Rita Rohlfing (born 1964), painter, photographer and installation artist * Tata Ronkholz (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 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 dependen ...

(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 (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 Painting, painter. She was a member of the :de:Künstlerkolonie Worpswede, "Worpswede artists' colony". Biography One of six siblings, Agnes Plump grew up i ...

(1888–1980), painter * Amalia von Schattenhofer (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 Muni ...

(1846–1905), painter * Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), German-American painter, art collector and teacher * Ingrid Schmeck (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 preferred ...

(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 (born 1974), visual artist * Henriette Schneider (1747–1812), painter * Sophie Schneider (1866–1942), painter * Stefanie Schneider (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 (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 co ...

(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 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 th ...

(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 ...

(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 (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 educat ...

(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 (1759–1827), portrait painter * Zuzanna Skiba (born 1968), painter * Maria Slavona (1865–1931), Impressionist painter * Kiki Smith (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 (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 (born 1966), filmmaker, visual artist and writer * Dora Stock (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 pictori ...

(1897–1983), textile artist * Madeleine Strindberg (born 1955), painter * Helene Marie Stromeyer (1834–1924), painter * Erika Stürmer-Alex (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 (1910–1981), photographer * Amalie Tischbein (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 (born 1952), contemporary artist * Alice Trübner (1875–1916), painter * Susanne Tunn (born 1958), sculptor

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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 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 (born 1960), photographer

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* Grete Waldau (born 1868), architectural painter, mural artist * Emmi Walther (1860–1936), painter * Maria Dorothea Wagner (1719–1792), painter * Corinne Wasmuht (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 (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, We ...

(1878–1954), sculptor * Brigitta Westphal (born 1944), painter * Marianne Wex (born 1937), feminist photographer * Eva Janina Wieczorek (born 1951), painter * Anne Winterer (1894–1938), photographer * Lilli Wislicenus (1872–1939), sculptor * Herma Auguste Wittstock (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 (1906–1977), photographer and photojournalist * Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944), painter * Emmy Worringer (1878–1961), avant-garde artist

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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 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 (born 1971), photographer

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