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Hans von Aachen Hans von Aachen (1552 – 4 March 1615) was a German painter who was one of the leading representatives of Northern Mannerism. Hans von Aachen was a versatile and productive artist who worked in many genres. He was successful as a painter of p ...
(1552–1615) * Aatifi (born 1965) * Karl Abt (1899–1985) *
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) * Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910) * Oswald Achenbach (1827–1905) *
Herbert Achternbusch Herbert Achternbusch ( Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel ''Die Alexanderschlacht'', before turning to low-budget films. He h ...
(1938–2022) * Franz Ackermann (born 1963) * Johann Adam Ackermann (1780–1853) * Max Ackermann (1887–1975) * Otto Ackermann (1872–1953) *
Albrecht Adam Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a Bavarian painter, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1812 Russian campaign. He was attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's Grande Armée. Thr ...
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Benno Adam Benno Rafael Adam (15 July 1812, Munich - 8 March 1892, Kelheim) was a German animal painter. Life He was the eldest son of the painter Albrecht Adam, and distinguished himself especially by his depictions of game animals, hunting dogs and pets ...
(1812–1892) * Emil Adam (1843–1924) * Eugen Adam (1817–1880) *
Franz Adam Franz Adam (May 4, 1815 – September 30, 1886) was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy. Life Adam was born in Milan, Italy, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior ...
(1815–1886) * Heinrich Adam (1787–1862) * Luitpold Adam (1888–1950) * Jankel Adler (1895–1949) *
Salomon Adler Salomon Adler (before 3 March 1630 – 1709 in Milan) was a German painter of the Baroque period, active in Milan and Bergamo as a portrait painter. He was the mentor of Fra' Galgario. Born in Danzig ( Gdańsk), died in Milan. Biography ...
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Christoph Ludwig Agricola Christoph Ludwig Agricola (5 November 1665 – 8 August 1724) was a German landscape painter and etcher. He was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). Life and career Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born on 5 November 1665 at Regensburg in Germ ...
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Karl Agricola Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola (18 October 1779 – 15 May 1852) was a German artist, noted for his portrait miniatures. Life and works Agricola was born at Bad Säckingen, Margraviate of Baden, in 1779. After a preliminary course of instruction i ...
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August Ahlborn August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn (October 11, 1796 – August 24, 1857) was a German landscape painter. Life Ahlborn was born in Hanover, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke. He entered t ...
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Erwin Aichele Erwin Aichele (5 May 1887 – 29 June 1974) was a German painter and animal artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany. His life and work was the subject of a 1988 monograph, ''Der Tiermaler Erwin Aichele'' by Hans Schöner. Early y ...
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Wolfram Aichele Wolfram Aïchele (29 April 1924 – 9 June 2016) was an artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany. His work has been exhibited in America, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. His paintings have been ...
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Max Ainmiller Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller (14 February 1807 – 9 December 1870) was a German artist and glass painter. Under the tutorage of Friedrich von Gärtner, director of the royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Ainmiller studied glass painting, ...
(1807–1870) * Josef Albers (1888–1976) *
Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer. Life Aldenrath was a pupil of Johann Jakob Tischbein and of Friedrich Carl Gröger, with whom he develo ...
(1775–1844) * William Alexander (1915–1997) * Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857–1915) *
Jakob Alt Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and lithographer. Life Alt was the son of Barbara Alt, nee Horst, and Frankfurt carpenter Johann Leonhart Alt. He was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he receive ...
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Theodor Alt Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blueger ...
(1846–1937) * Albrecht Altdorfer (c 1480–1538) * Kai Althoff (born 1966) * Karl Altmann (1802–1861) * Hans am Ende (1864–1918) * Christoph Amberger (1505–1562) * Heinrich Amersdorffer (1905–1986) * Tobias Andreae (1823–1873) *
Peter Angermann Peter Angermann (born 1945 in Rehau, Bavaria) is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the ...
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Hermann Anschütz Hermann Anschütz (12 October 1802 – 30 August 1880) was a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Anschütz was born in Koblenz. His father J ...
(1802–1880) * Horst Antes (born 1936) * Karl von Appen (1900–1981) * Joseph Ignaz Appiani (1706–1785) * Clara Arnheim (1865–1942) * Johann Samuel Arnhold (1766–1828) *
Ferdinand von Arnim Heinrich Ludwig Ferdinand von Arnim (15 September 1814 – 23 March 1866) was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam. Life Arnim was born in Tre ...
(1814–1866) * Heinrich Gotthold Arnold (1785–1854) * Ulrike Arnold (born 1950) * Carl Arp (1867–1913) *
Hans Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born in Straßburg (now Str ...
(1886–1966) * Otto Arpke (1886–1943) * Isidor Ascheim (1891–1968) * Hans Aschenborn (1888–1931) * Fritz Ascher (1893–1970) * Louis Asher (1804–1878) * Frank Auerbach (born 1931)


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Johannes Theodor Baargeld Johannes Theodor Baargeld was a pseudonym of Alfred Emanuel Ferdinand Grünwald (9 October 1892 – 16 or 17 August 1927), a German painter and poet who, together with Max Ernst, founded the Cologne Dada group. He also used the name Zentro ...
(1892–1927) * Elvira Bach (born 1951) *
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
(1748–1778) * Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach (1756–1829) * Carola Baer-von Mathes (1857–1940) * Emanuel Bachrach-Barée (1863–1943) * Johann Daniel Bager (1734–1815) * Johann Karl Bähr (1801–1869) * Theodor Baierl (1881–1932) *
Hans Baldung Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered th ...
(c. 1484–1545) * Jan Balet (1913–2009) * Karl Ballenberger (1801–1860) * Hans Baluschek (1870–1935) * Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873) * Ernst von Bandel (1800–1876) *
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) * Eduard Bargheer (1901–1979) *
Hans von Bartels Hans von Bartels (25 December 1856 – 5 October 1913) was a German painter. Life He was born in Hamburg, the son of Dr N. F. F. von Bartels, a Russian government official. He studied first under the marine painter R. Hardorff in Hamburg, then ...
(1856–1913) * Emil Bartoschek (1899–1969) *
Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the ...
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Emil Bauch Emil Bauch (1823 in Hamburg, Germany – after 1874 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a German Painting, painter, lithographer and teacher who came to reside in the city of Rio de Janeiro. He painted panoramic city scenes and portraits, as well as ...
(1823–c. 1874) * Jeanna Bauck (1840–1926) * Michael Bauer (born 1973) * Rudolf Bauer (1889–1953) * Gustav Bauernfeind (1848–1904) * Paul Baum (1859–1932) * Willi Baumeister (1889–1955) *
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) * Tilo Baumgartel (born 1972) * Armin Baumgarten (born 1967) * Bodo Baumgarten (born 1940) *
Johann Wilhelm Baur Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Biography Accordi ...
(1607–1640) * August von Bayer (1803–1875) * Thommie Bayer (born 1953) *
Alf Bayrle Alf Bayrle (15 December 1900 – 11 September 1982), also known as Alf Singer-Bayrle, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor. Life Bayrle was born in Biberach an der Riss. After his military service and participation in the First Worl ...
(1900–1982) * Fritz Beblo (1872–1947) *
August Becker August Becker (17 August 1900 – 31 December 1967) was a mid-ranking functionary in the SS of Nazi Germany and chemist in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He helped design the vans with a gas chamber built into the back compartment u ...
(1821–1887) * Ferdinand Becker (1846–1877) * Hermann Heinrich Becker (1817–1885) * Jakob Becker (1810–1872) * Ludwig Hugo Becker (1834–1868) * Philipp Jakob Becker (1763–1829) * Max Beckmann (1884–1950) * Karl Becker (1820–1900) *
Benedikt Beckenkamp Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp (1747–1828) was a German painter. Life Beckenkamp was born in 1747 in the valley of Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz. He studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and Jan Zick, at Koblenz. At first he de ...
(1747–1828) * René Beeh (1886−1922) * Josef Konstantin Beer (1862–1933) * Adalbert Begas (1836–1888) *
Carl Joseph Begas Carl Joseph Begas, or Karl Begas, (30 September 1794, Heinsberg – 24 November 1854, Berlin) was a German painter who played an important role in the transition from Romanticism to Realism. He was the first in a multi-generational "dynasty" of ...
(1794–1854) * Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920) *
Oskar Begas Oskar Begas (31 July 1828 in Berlin – 10 November 1883 in Berlin) was a German portrait and history painter. Life and career He took his first lessons from his father, the well-known painter Carl Joseph Begas, and began by doing portrai ...
(1828–1883) * Akbar Behkalam (born 1944) *
Franz Joachim Beich Franz Joachim Beich (1666–1748) was a Bavarian painter. Life Franz Joachim Beich was born at Ravensburg (in today's Baden-Württemberg), on October 15, 1666.
(1666–1748) * Johannes Beilharz (born 1956) *
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 ...
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Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Biography ...
(1920–1975) * Eduard Bendemann (1811–1889) * Amalie Bensinger (1809–1889) * William Berczy (1744–1813) * Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967) *
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) * Rudolf Bergander (1909–1970) *
Claus Bergen Claus Friedrich Bergen (April 18, 1885 – October 4, 1964) was a German illustrator and painter, best known for his depictions of naval warfare in World War I. Early life and career Bergen was born April 18, 1885, in Stuttgart, Germany, the ...
(1885–1964) * Georg Bergmann (1821–1870) * Johann Martin Bernatz (1802–1878) *
Meister Bertram Master Bertram (c.1345–c.1415), also known as Meister Bertram and Master of Minden, was a German International Gothic painter primarily of religious art. Life Bertram was born in Minden. He is first recorded in Hamburg in 1367, and l ...
(c. 1345–c. 1415) * Johann Wilhelm Beyer (1725–1796) * Robert Beyschlag (1838-1903) * Hanna Bieber-Böhm (1851–1910) * Adolf Bierbrauer (1915–2012) * Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–1892) * Peter Binoit (c. 1590–1632) * Norbert Bisky (born 1970) *
Carl Blechen Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798, Cottbus – 23 July 1840, Berlin) was a German (his mother was a Sorb) landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic idea ...
(1798–1840) * Georg Bleibtreu (1828–1892) *
Fritz Bleyl Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics for ...
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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) * Benjamin von Block (1631–1690) * Josef Block (1863–1943) * Hugo von Blomberg (1820–1871) *
Oscar Bluemner Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter. Early life Bluemner was born as Friedrich Julius Oskar B ...
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Gregor von Bochmann Gregor von Bochmann (1 June 1850, Nehatu, Kreis Wiek, Governorate of Estonia – 12 February 1930, Hösel, near Düsseldorf) was a Baltic-German landscape and genre painter. Biography His father was a forest warden for the Governorate of E ...
(1850–1930) * Arnold Bode (1900–1977) * Leopold Bode (1831–1906) * Gottlieb Bodmer (1804–1837) *
Arvid Boecker Arvid Boecker (born 1964) in Wuppertal) is a German painter and curator. He is a representative of concrete art and focuses on color field painting. Biography Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the University of Trier Art history, co ...
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Pedro Boese Pedro Boese (born 1972) is a German/Portuguese painter. Life and work Pedro Boese was born in Beira, Portuguese Mozambique. *1993–1997: graduation from the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht in painting and etching *1998–2001: postgra ...
(born 1972) * Corbinian Böhm (born 1966) * Hans Bohrdt (1857–1945) * Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844–1894) *
Hanns Bolz Hanns Bolz (22 January 1885, in Aachen – 4 July 1918, in Munich) was a German painter, illustrator and sculptor. He worked in the Expressionist and Cubo-Futurist styles. Biography After studying in Aachen and Cologne, he attended the Kunst ...
(1885–1918) * Friedrich von Bömches (1916–2010) * Paula Bonte (1840–1902) * Hinrik Bornemann (c. 1450–1499) * Friedrich Boser (1811–1881) *
Harald Julius von Bosse Harald Julius von Bosse (28 September 1812 – 10 March 1894; ''Гаральд Юлиус Боссе'') was a 19th-century architect and painter. He was descended from a Germano-Baltic noble family and was a subject of the Russian Empire. L ...
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Otto Richard Bossert Otto Richard Bossert (1874–1919), also known as O. R. Bossert, was a German portrait painter, art teacher and graphic artist. Among his works are portrait etchings of historical figures and color woodcuts. His early works were influenced by Ma ...
(1874–1919) * Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) * Friedrich August Bouterwek (1806–1867) * Anton Braith (1836–1905) *
August von Brandis August Friedrich Carl von Brandis (12 May 1859 in Berlin-Haselhorst - 18 October 1947 in Aachen) was a German Impressionism, impressionist painter, best known for his interiors. He painted Aachen Cathedral in several works. Biography August ...
(1859–1947) * Martin Brandenburg (1870–1919) *
Heinrich Brandes Georg Heinrich Brandes () was a German painter. Life Brandes was born at Bortfeld, near Brunswick, on 23 May 1803, and learned the rudiments of painting under the guidance of F. Barthels at Brunswick. From 1823 to 1825 he attended the Acad ...
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Marianne Brandt Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus ''Metall-Werkstatt'' (Metal Workshop ...
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Louis Braun Louis Braun (23 September 1836 – 18 February 1916) was a German painter, mostly of battle scenes. Biography He was born at Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg, and was educated in Munich and in Paris. He followed as an illustrator the Austrian a ...
(1836–1916) * VG Braun-Dusemond (1919–1998) *
Rudolf Bredow Rudolf Bredow (born 2 November 1909 in Berlin, died 17 November 1973 in Bremen), German post-expressionist painter, draughtsman and art teacher. Bredow's lifework became famous only after his death. It comprises ca. 1000 documented works (wa ...
(1909–1973) * Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860–1921) * K.P. Brehmer (1938–1997) * Carl Breitbach (1833–1904) *
Heinrich Breling Heinrich Christoph Gottlieb Breling (14 October 1849, Burgdorf - 6 September 1914, Fischerhude, near Ottersberg) was a German painter of historical and genre scenes. He was the first artist in what would later become known as the "Artists' Colo ...
(1849–1914) * Albert Heinrich Brendel (1827–1895) *
Louise Catherine Breslau Louise Catherine Breslau (6 December 1856 – 12 May 1927) was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of t ...
(1856–1927) * Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729) *
Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann or Brinkman (1709 – 21 December 1760) was a German painter and engraver Life He was a student of Johann Georg Dathan in Speyer. In 1733, he was named a court painter by Elector Charles Philipp in Mannheim. He ...
(1709–1760) * Gottfried Brockmann (1903–1983) * Heinrich Brocksieper (1898–1968) * Christian Brod (1917–2012) * August Bromeis (1813–1881) * Franz Bronstert (1895–1967) * Wilhelm Brücke (1800–1874) *
Alexander Bruckmann Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852) was a German historical and portrait painter. Life Bruckmann was born at Reutlingen in 1806. From 1826 he studied painting under Georg Friedrich Eberhard at Stuttgart, and in 1827–29 he studied at Munich, ...
(1806–1852) * Ferdinand Brütt (1849–1936) *
Christoph Brüx Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor, painter, composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger and music producer. He composed for artists such as No Angels, Matthias Reim, The Underdog Project ( ''Summer Jam''), Brooklyn Bounce ...
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Lothar-Günther Buchheim Lothar-Günther Buchheim () (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for h ...
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Carl Buchheister Carl Buchheister (17 October 1890 – 2 February 1964) was a German constructivist artist noted for his multiple series of "model paintings"''Constructivist Design, published by Galerie Lambert Weyl, 1958'' at Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris. which h ...
(1890–1964) * Erich Buchholz (1891–1972) * Ludwig Buchhorn (1770–1856) * Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957) * Heinz Budweg (born 1940) *
Karl Albert Buehr Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chic ...
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Franz Bunke Franz Wilhelm Johann Bunke (3 December 1857, Schwaan - 6 July 1939, Weimar) was a German landscape painter. Life He was the son of a mill builder. In 1871, he began drawing lessons with Paul Tischbein in Rostock and attended a trade school aft ...
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Anton Burger Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, in Greece (1944) and of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Military career Anton Burger was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, the son of a station ...
(1824–1905) * Ludwig Burger (1825–1884) * Jonas Burgert (born 1969) * Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) * Peter Burnitz (1824–1886) * Friedrich Bury (1763–1823) * Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) * Georg Heinrich Busse (1810–1868) *
Michael Buthe Michael Buthe (1 August 1944 – 15 November 1994) was a German artist who lived and worked between Germany and Morocco. He exhibited widely throughout Europe during his life and is known for his eclectic and prolific oeuvre which encompasses p ...
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Bernhard Buttersack Bernhard Buttersack (16 March 1858, Bad Liebenzell — 6 May 1925, Icking) was a German landscape painter of the Munich School. Life and work He displayed artistic talent at an early age, was encouraged by his parents and began his studies at ...
(1858–1925) * Erich Büttner (1889–1936) * André Butzer (born 1973)


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* Daniel Caffé (1750–1815) *
Heinrich Campendonk Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (3 November 1889 – 9 May 1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen. Life Campendonk was born in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was th ...
(1889–1957) * Wilhelm Camphausen (1818–1885) * Peter Candid (c. 1548–1628) * Johann Hermann Carmiencke (1810–1867) * Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869) * Peter Caulitz (c.1650–1719) *
Ludwig Choris Louis Choris (1795–1828) was a History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union, German-Russian painter and explorer.Philipp Christfeld (1796/97–1874) * Kiddy Citny (born 1957) * Lorenz Clasen (1812–1899) * Gustav Adolf Closs (1864–1938) *
Ferdinand Collmann Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Collmann (born October 1762 in Berlin; died 28 August 1837) was a German painter and professor, and between 1821 and 1837 he was a member of the Preußische Akademie der Künste. Among his works were portrait ...
(1762–1837) * Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) * Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921) * Carl Conjola (1773–1831) * Carl Emanuel Conrad (1810–1873) *
Johann Wilhelm Cordes Johann Wilhelm Cordes (14 March 1824, Lübeck - 16 August 1869, Lübeck) was a German landscape painter. Biography He came from a family of merchants and had his primary education at the Katharineum. Originally, he was apprenticed to a commerci ...
(1824–1869) * Lovis Corinth (1858–1925) * Peter von Cornelius (1784–1867) * Erich Correns (1821–1877) * Helene Cramer (1844–1916) * Molly Cramer (1852–1936) *
Augustin Cranach Augustin Cranach (1554 — 26 July 1595) was a German painter. He was born and died in Wittenberg, and was the son of Lucas Cranach the Younger and Magdalena Schurff. He was the father of Lucas Cranach III. See also * List of German painters ...
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Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ;  – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is kno ...
(c. 1472–1553) * Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586) * Georg Heinrich Crola (1804–1879)


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* Eduard Daege (1805–1883) * Heinrich Anton Dähling (1773–1850) * Maximilian Dasio (1865–1954) * Gabriela Dauerer (born 1958) * Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970) * John Decker (1895–1947) * Wilm Dedeke (c. 1460–c. 1528) *
Ernst Deger Ernst Deger (15 April 1809, Bockenem - 27 January 1885, Düsseldorf) was a German religious artist, in the style of the Nazarene movement. He is considered to be the main representative of Christian art in the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life ...
(1809–1885) * Balthasar Denner (1685–1749) * Adolf Des Coudres (1862–1924) * Ludwig Des Coudres (1820–1878) * Ludwig Dettmann (1865–1944) * Christa Dichgans (1940–2018) * Christophe Didillon (born 1971) *
Karl Diebitsch Karl Diebitsch (3 January 1899 – 6 August 1985) was an artist and the '' Schutzstaffel'' (SS) officer responsible for designing much of the SS regalia during the Nazi era, including the chained SS officer's dagger scabbard. Diebitsch worked wit ...
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...
(1851–1913) * Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885) *
Albert Christoph Dies Albert Christoph Dies (175528 December 1822) was a German painter, engraver, and biographer most noted for his biography of Joseph Haydn, although it is now considered sentimental and not entirely accurate. As an artist, he is also not very well- ...
(1755–1822) * Anton Dietrich (1833–1904) * Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774) * Wendel Dietterlin (c. 1550–1599) * Feodor Dietz (1813–1870) * Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907) *
Ludwig Dill Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill (2 February 1848, Gernsbach - 24 October 1940, Karlsruhe) was a German ship and landscape painter who was a founding member of the Munich Secession. Life and work He was the only son of the Tax Assessor (later ...
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Johann Georg von Dillis Johann Georg von Dillis (26 December 1759 – 28 September 1841) was a German painter. Biography He was born in Gmain near Dorfen. Son of a gamekeeper and forester, he was educated in Munich with support from the prince-elector of Bavaria. I ...
(1759–1841) * Georg Friedrich Dinglinger (1666–1720) * Otto Dix (1891–1969) * Carl Emil Doepler (1824–1905) *
Emil Doepler Emil Doepler (29 October 1855, Munich - 21 December 1922, Berlin) was a German illustrator, graphic artist, and heraldist. He is usually referred to as The Younger, to distinguish him from his father. Life and work He was born to Carl Emil Do ...
(1855–1922) * Max Doerner (1870–1939) * Franz Domscheit (1880–1965) *
Franz Burchard Dörbeck Franz Burchard Dörbeck ( in Fellin in Fellin) was a Baltic German graphic artist and caricaturist born in Fellin (now Viljandi, Viljandi County, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia From 1814 to 1816 Dörbeck studied engravin ...
(1799–1835) * Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741–1813) *
Anton Josef Dräger Anton Josef Dräger, also known as Joseph Anton Draeger, a historical painter, was born at Trèves in 1794, and died at Rome in 1833. Biography He studied under Kugelgen in Dresden, but went in 1823 to Italy and took up his quarters in Rome, ...
(1794–1833) * Heinrich Dreber (1822–1875) * Johann Friedrich Dryander (1756–1812) *
Eugen Dücker Eugen Gustav Dücker (also ''Eugène Gustav Dücker''; , in Arensburg (now Kuressaare, Estonia) – 6 December 1916, in Düsseldorf) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic atyle, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biograph ...
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Balthasar Anton Dunker Balthasar Anton Dunker (15 January 1746, Saal – 2 April 1807, Bern) was a German landscape painter and etcher. Biography He was the eldest son of pastor Albert Andreas Duncker (1706–1781) and his second wife, Sophie Dorothea von Olthof ( ...
(1746–1807) *
Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
(1471–1528) * Hermann Dyck (1812–1874) * Udo Dziersk (born 1961)


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* Konrad Eberhard (1768–1859) *
Adam Eberle Adam Eberle (27 March 1804 – 15 April 1832), one of the earliest and most gifted pupils of Peter von Cornelius, was born at Aachen in 1804. He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, and afterwards went with Cornelius to Munich. After com ...
(1804–1832) * Robert Eberle (1815–1862) * Johann Christian Eberlein (1770–1815) * John Giles Eccardt (1720–1799) * Michael Echter (1812–1879) *
Friedrich Eckenfelder Friedrich Eckenfelder (6 March 1861 – 11 May 1938) was a German impressionist painter, best known for his portrayals of farm horses and for townscapes with a background of the Swabian Alps. He was born and raised in modest circumstances, but ...
(1861–1938) *
Heinrich Ambros Eckert Heinrich Ambros Eckert (16 October 1807 – 10 February 1840) was a German painter of battle-pieces. He was born at Würzburg in the Grand Duchy of Würzburg (now Bavaria), and was at first instructed by Carl Caspar Fesel (1775-1846). In 1825 he ...
(1807–1840) *
Otto Eckmann Otto Eckmann (19 November 1865 – 11 June 1902) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was a prominent member of the "floral" branch of Jugendstil. He created the Eckmann typeface, which was based on Japanese calligraphy and medieval fon ...
(1865–1902) * John Eckstein (1735–1817) * Martin Eder (born 1968) * Carl Eggers (1787–1863) * Franz Xaver Eggert (1802–1876) * Julie von Egloffstein (1792–1869) * Julius von Ehren (1864–1944) * Paul Ehrenberg (1876–1949) *
Friedrich Eibner Friedrich Eibner (1826–1877), a German painter of architectural subjects, was born at Hilpoltstein. He studied after the works of Heinrich Schönfeld, and travelled in Bavaria, and afterwards in Germany, France, Upper Italy, and Spain, making ...
(1826–1877) * Franz Eichhorst (1885–1948) *
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) * Andreas Eigner (1801–1870) * Fritz Eisel (1929–2010) *
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) * Friedrich August Elsasser (1810–1845) * Adam Elsheimer (1578–1610) * Ludwig Elsholtz (1805–1850) *
Wilhelm Emelé Wilhelm Emelé (30 May 1830 Buchen, Odenwald - 11 October 1905 Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Painting, painter of horses, military scenes and hunting scenes. Biography He first adopted a military career but studied art with Feodor Dietz a ...
(1830–1905) * Edgar Ende (1901–1965) * Sylvester Engbrox (born 1964) * Johann Friedrich Engel (1844–1921) * Carl Engel von der Rabenau (1817–1870) * Horus Engels (1914–1991) * Karl von Enhuber (1811–1867) * Josef Otto Entres (1804–1870) * Ulrich Erben (born 1940) * Otto Erdmann (1834–1905) *
Fritz Erler Fritz Erler (15 December 1868 – 11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during Wor ...
(1868–1940) * Johann Franz Ermels (1641–1693) * Max Ernst (1891–1976) *
Hermann Eschke Hermann Wilhelm Benjamin Eschke (6 May 1823 - 15 January 1900) was a German painter who specialized in marine art. Biography Eschke was born in Berlin. In 1840, at the age of seventeen, he began his studies with Professor Wilhelm Herbig and, ...
(1823–1900) * Stefan Ettlinger (born 1958) * Ernst Ewald (1836–1904) *
Julius Exter Julius Leopold Bernhard Exter (20 September 1863, Ludwigshafen - 16 October 1939, Übersee) was a German painter and sculptor. His work consists mostly of landscapes and portraits. Biography He was born to a family of merchants. His brother ...
(1863–1939) * Carl Gottfried Eybe (1813–1893) * Adolf Eybel (1802–1882)


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* Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (1780–1857) * Johann Joachim Faber (1778–1846) *
Carl Ferdinand Fabritius Carl Ferdinand Fabritius (1637 – 21 January 1673) was a Painting, painter in the Bishopric of Paderborn (German: ''Fürstbistum Paderborn''). Paderborn prince-bishop (German: ''Fürstbischof'') Ferdinand of Fürstenberg (1626–1683), ...
(1637–1673) * Wilhelm Facklam (1893–1972) *
Ludwig Fahrenkrog Ludwig Fahrenkrog (20 October 1867 – 27 October 1952) was a German painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer. He was born in Rendsburg, Prussia, in 1867. He started his career as an artist in his youth, and attended the Berlin Royal Art A ...
(1867–1952) * Joachim Martin Falbe (1709–1782) * Joseph Fassbender (1903–1974) * Berthold Faust (born 1935) * Joseph Fay (1813–1875) * Christian Gottlob Fechhelm (1732–1816) *
Eduard Clemens Fechner Eduard Clemens Fechner (21 August 1799 – 7 February 1861) was a German portrait painter and an etcher. Fechner was born at Gross Särchen, near Bad Muskau, and studied in 1814 at Dresden under Grassi and Retsch. In 1820 he went to Munich, ...
(1799–1861) *
Hans Feibusch Hans Nathan FeibuschFeibusch, Hans Nathan< ...
(1898–1998) *
Manfred Feiler Manfred Feiler (22 August 1925 – 15 March 2020) was a German painter and illustrator. Biography Starting in 1939, Feiler studied at the Staatliche Kunstschule für Textilindustrie Plauen. He was granted a scholarship by the German regime, whi ...
(1925–2020) * Paul Feiler (1918–2013) * Max Feldbauer (1869–1948) * Conrad Felixmüller (1897–1977) *
Ferdinand Fellner Ferdinand Fellner (19 April 1847 – 22 March 1916) was an Austrian architect. Biography Fellner joined his ailing father's architecture firm at the age of nineteen. After his death he founded the architecture studio Fellner & Helmer together w ...
(1799–1859) * Melchior Feselen (c. 1495–1538) * Rainer Fetting (born 1949) *
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fis ...
(1709–1772) * Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880) *
Martin von Feuerstein Martin Feuerstein (after 1914, Martin Ritter von Feuerstein; 6 January 1856, Barr - 13 February 1931, Munich) was a German painter and art teacher. He was a late adherent of the Nazarene movement, but was also heavily influenced by impressionism ...
(1856–1941) *
Willy Fick Wilhelm Peter Hubert Fick (February 7, 1893 – October 3, 1967), called Willy Fick, was a German graphic artist born in Cologne. He belonged to the Dada movement, and in 1919 became a founding member of the artist circle called Stupid, togethe ...
(1893–1967) * Friedrich Kurt Fiedler (1894–1950) *
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo Johann Dominicus Fiorillo (13 October 1748 – 10 September 1821) was a German painter and historian of art. Fiorillo, a son of Italian composer Ignazio Fiorillo, was born at Hamburg. He received his first instructions in art at an acade ...
(1748–1821) * Klaus Fisch (1893–1975) * John Fischer (1786–1875) * Joseph Anton Fischer (1814–1859) * Oskar Fischinger (1900–1967) * Arthur Fitger (1840–1909) * Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker (1792–1847) *
Albert Flamm Albert Flamm (1823–1906) was a German landscape painter. Biography Albert Flamm was born at Cologne. He was a pupil of Andreas Achenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he settled after traveling in Italy. He is associated with ...
(1823–1906) *
Georg Flegel Georg Flegel (1566 – 23 March 1638) was a German painter, best known for his still-life works. Biography Flegel was born in Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia. Around 1580 he moved to Vienna, where he became an assistant to Lucas van Valckenborch ...
(1566–1638) * François Fleischbein (1804–1868) *
Lutz Fleischer Lutz Fleischer (born 1956 in Dresden - 10 July 2019) was a German painter and graphic artist. He won the Hans-Theo-Richter-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in 2005. See also * List of German painters This is a list of German pai ...
(1956–2019) *
Max Fleischer Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 25, 1972) was an American animator, inventor, film director and producer, and studio founder and owner. Born in Kraków, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he becam ...
(1861–1930) * Adolf Fleischmann (1892–1968) *
Gerlach Flicke Gerlach Flicke (fl. 1545 – 1558), Latin name Gerbarus Fleccius, anglicised in the 16th century as "Garlicke", was a German portrait painter who is known for his work in London as an artist of the Tudor court. Flicke was imprisoned in London a ...
(fl. 1545–1558) *
Fedor Flinzer Fyodor, Fedor Alexis Flinzer (4 April 1832 in Reichenbach im Vogtland – 14 June 1911 in Leipzig) was an author, educator and one of the greatest Germany, German illustrators of the Gründerzeit, who was called Raphael of Cats (disambiguation ...
(1832–1911) * Gisbert Flüggen (1811–1859) * Josef Flüggen (1842–1906) * Daniel Fohr (1801–1862) * Karl Philipp Fohr (1795–1818) * Philipp von Foltz (1805–1877) * Günther Förg (1952–2013) *
Ernst Joachim Förster Ernst Joachim Förster (8 April 1800 – 29 April 1885) was a German painter and an art critic, author of a number of elaborate and important works bearing on the history of art in Germany and Italy. Biography He was born in Saaleplatte, and in ...
(1800–1885) * Arnold Forstmann (1842–c. 1914) * Hans Ulrich Franck (1603–1675) *
Philipp Franck Johann Heinrich Philipp Franck (9 April 1860, Frankfurt am Main - 13 March 1944, Berlin) was a German Impressionism, Impressionist painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Biography With his father's support, and insistence, he began by stud ...
(1860–1944) * Meister Francke (c. 1380–c. 1440) *
Michael Sigismund Frank Michael Sigismund Frank (1 June 1770 – 16 January 1847) was a Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting. Frank was born in Nuremberg. His father was a dealer in provisions, living in comfortable circumstances, who ...
(1770–1847) * Eduard Frederich (1813–1864) * Hermann Freese (1813–1871) * Otto Freundlich (1878–1943) * Max Frey (1874–1944) * Maria Elektrine von Freyberg (1797–1847) *
Heinrich Jakob Fried Heinrich Jakob Fried (11 March 1802, Queichheim - 2 November 1870, Munich) was a German painter. Life and work He studied at Stuttgart and Augsburg, and from 1822 under Johann Peter von Langer and Peter von Cornelius at the Academy of Fine Art ...
(1802–1870) * Caroline Friederike Friedrich (1749–1815) *
Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landsca ...
(1774–1840) * Fred Friedrich (born 1943) * Woldemar Friedrich (1846–1910) * Fritz Friedrichs (1882–1928) * Bernhard Fries (1820–1879) *
Ernst Fries Ernst Fries (22 June 1801, Heidelberg – 11 October 1833, Karlsruhe) was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph. Besides Karl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann, he was the youngest of the so-called triumvir ...
(1801–1833) * Karl Friedrich Fries (1831–1871) *
Richard Friese Richard Friese (15 December 1854 – 29 June 1918) was a German animal and landscape painter. Biography He was born in Gumbinnen. He studied at the Academy in Berlin, where, after traveling in the orient, in Norway, and as far as the polar re ...
(1854–1918) * Johann Christoph Frisch (1737–1815) * Karl Ludwig Frommel (1789–1863) *
Günter Fruhtrunk Günter Fruhtrunk (1 May 1923 – 12 December 1982) was a German geometric abstract painter and printmaker whose work relates to op art. Born in Munich, Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Munich, which he gave up a ...
(1923–1982) *
Ulrich Füetrer Ulrich Füetrer or Füterer (before 1450 - between 1496 and 1500) was a German writer, painter, and sculptor. Born in Landshut before 1450 (some sources state 1430 as the year of his birth), Ulrich Füetrer went to the Latin school in that city ...
(c. 1450–1496/1500) *
Heinrich Füger Heinrich Friedrich Füger (8 December 1751, in Heilbronn – 5 November 1818, in Vienna) was a German classicist portrait and historical painter. Biography Füger was a pupil of Nicolas Guibal in Stuttgart and of Adam Friedrich Oeser in Lei ...
(1751–1818) * Hinrik Funhof (?–1485) * Edmund Fürst (1874–1955) * Klaus Fußmann (born 1938) * Conrad Fyoll (fl. 1464–1476)


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* Eduard Gaertner (1801–1877) * Bernd Erich Gall (born 1956) * Franz Gareis (1775–1803) *
Friedrich Gärtner Friedrich Gärtner (11 January 1824 in Munich - 1905 ibid) was a German architectural painter. Biography He was born in Munich, the son of the architect Friedrich von Gärtner, with whom he went to Athens in 1840. After his return, he studied ...
(1824–1905) * Heinrich Gärtner (1828–1909) *
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) * Karl Gatermann the Elder (1883–1959) *
Karl Gatermann the Younger Karl Gatermann (June 17, 1909 – April 3, 1992), typically referred to in art circles as Karl Gatermann the Younger, was a German painter, graphic artist, and set designer. He was the nephew of his namesake, Karl Gatermann the Elder, Karl Gater ...
(1909–1992) *
Jakob Gauermann Jakob Gauermann (1773, Oeffingen – 1843, Miesenbach) was a German landscape and genre painter and engraver born in Oeffingen, near Stuttgart. Life He at first worked as a stonemason at Hohenheim. His strong inclination for drawing bro ...
(1773–1843) *
Ernst Gebauer Ernst Gebauer (23 May 1782 – 7 July 1865) was a German painter. His works from the War of Liberation against Napoleon's rule are particularly well known. Gallery File:Alena Radzivił (Praździeckaja). Алена Радзівіл (Празь ...
(1782–1865) * Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925) * Josef Anton Gegenbauer (1800–1876) * Otto Geigenberger (1881–1946) *
Rupprecht Geiger Rupprecht Geiger (26 January 1908 – 6 December 2009) was a German abstract painter and sculptor. Throughout his career, he favored monochromicity and color-field paintings. For a time, he concentrated solely on the color red. Life and work G ...
(1908–2009) * Willi Geiger (1878–1971) *
Carl Geist Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Geist (9 December 1870, Reichelsheim (Odenwald), Reichelsheim - 29 November 1931, Bad Wimpfen) was a German Impressionist painter. Life His father was the district veterinarian. In 1871, his family moved to Grünberg, He ...
(1870–1931) *
Bonaventura Genelli Giovanni Bonaventura Genelli (28 September 179813 November 1868) was a German painter. Biography Genelli was born in Berlin in 1798. He was the son of Janus Genelli, a painter whose landscapes are still preserved in the Schloss at Berlin; and ...
(1798–1868) *
Hanns Georgi Hanns Georgi (21 September 1901 – 23 October 1989) was a German painter, printmaker and book illustrator. Early life Hanns Georgi was the youngest of five children of August Friedrich Wilhelm and Anna Georgi Georgi, Scharschmidt born in Dre ...
(1901–1989) * Ludger Gerdes (1954–2008) * Till Gerhard (born 1971) *
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) *
Eduard Gerhardt Eduard Gerhardt (29 April 1813 in Erfurt – 6 March 1888 in Munich) was a German painter, lithographer and architect. Biography He began his career as a lithographer, and then studied architecture at Cologne and under Gottfried Semper, ...
(1813–1888) *
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) * Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821) * Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf (1895–1959) * Torben Giehler (born 1973) *
Werner Gilles Werner Gilles (29 August 1894 – 23 June 1961) was a German artist. Gilles was born in Rheydt/Rheinland (today Mönchengladbach) He found his artistic calling while at the academies of Kassel and Weimar, studying under Lyonel Feininger of the ...
(1894–1961) * Julius E.F. Gipkens (1883–1968) * Joseph Anton Glantschnigg (1695–1750) * Erich Glas (1897–1973) *
Horst Gläsker Horst Gläsker (born March 21, 1949 in Herford, Germany) is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. Development From 1963 to 1966 Horst Gläsker did an ap ...
(born 1949) * Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm (1836–1901) * Otto Gleichmann (1887–1963) *
Hermann Glöckner Hermann Glöckner (21 January 1889 – 25 May 1987) was a German painter and sculptor. He was an important representative of constructivism. Glöckner was born in Cotta near Dresden. He attended the vocational school in Leipzig in 1903 and wor ...
(1889–1987) * Paul Salvator Goldengreen (born 1960) *
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) *
Dieter Goltzsche Dieter Goltzsche (born 1934 in Dresden) is a German painter and graphic designer. He won the Hans-Theo-Richter-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in 2010. Exhibitions (selection) * 1964 Kunstkabinett des Instituts für Lehrerweite ...
(born 1934) * Paul Gösch (1885–1940) *
Karl Otto Götz Karl Otto Götz (22 February 1914 – 19 August 2017) often simply called K.O. Götz, was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and a ...
(1914–2017) * Leo Götz (1883–1962) * Jakob Götzenberger (1802–1866) * Carl Götzloff (1799–1866) *
Henry Gowa Henry Gowa (25 May 1902 – 23 May 1990) was a German painter and stage designer. Life and career Gowa was born Hermann Gowa in Hamburg. After studying in Munich he established himself as a stage designer, and was active in Munich, Leipzig ...
(1902–1990) *
Gustav Graef Gustav Graef (14 December 1821 – 6 January 1895) was a German painter, primarily of portraits and historical subjects. Life and work Graef was born in Königsberg. In 1842, he entered the University of Königsberg, where he was an enthusi ...
(1821–1895) * Peter Graf (born 1937) * Albert Gräfle (1809–1889) * August Grahl (1791–1868) * Walter Gramatté (1897–1929) *
Fritz Grasshoff Fritz Graßhoff (9 December 1913 – 9 February 1997) was a German painter, poet and songwriter. He was known for hits sung by Lale Andersen, Freddy Quinn and Hans Albers. As a painter, he participated in important exhibitions; as a writer, he w ...
(1913–1997) *
Gotthard Graubner Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany. Graubner studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in Germany, be ...
(1930–2013) * Otto Greiner (1869–1916) * Fritz Greve (1863–1931) * Otto Griebel (1895–1972) * Christian Griepenkerl (1839–1912) * HAP Grieshaber (1909–1981) * Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863) * Friedrich Carl Gröger (1766–1838) * Carl Grossberg (1894–1940) * Theodor Grosse (1829–1891) *
George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Obj ...
(1893–1959) * Michael Gruber (born 1965) * Hans Grundig (1901–1958) * Emil Otto Grundmann (1844–1890) * Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470–1528) * Jakob Grünenwald(1821–1896) * Eduard von Grützner (1846–1925) * Richard Guhr (1873–1956) * Louis Gurlitt (1812–1897) *
Karl Gussow Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor. Life and work His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he w ...
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Carl Haag Carl Haag (20 April 1820 – 24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Biography Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and ...
(1820–1915) * August Haake (1889–1915) * Hugo von Habermann (1849–1929) *
Wenzel Hablik Wenzel August Hablik, also known as Wenceslav Hablik and Wilhelm August Hablik (4 August 1881 – 23 March 1934), was a painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, and craftsman of the early twentieth century, associated with German Expressio ...
(1881–1934) *
Jakob Philipp Hackert Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. Biography Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He t ...
(1737–1807) * Gabriel von Hackl (1843–1926) * Karl Hagedorn (1922–2005) *
Karl Hagemeister Karl Hagemeister (12 March 1848 in Werder – 5 August 1933 in Werder) was a German landscape painter. Life He was the son of a fruit grower and developed an early interest in nature from the forested, watery surroundings of his birthpla ...
(1848–1933) * Theodor Hagen (1842–1919) *
Ludwig von Hagn Ludwig von Hagn (or Louis von Hagn; 23 November 1819 – 15 January 1898) was a German genre painter. Biography He was born in Munich, the son of a businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab. His older sister, Charlotte von Hagn, ...
(1820–1898) * Magda Hagstotz (1914–2001) * Hubert Haider (1879–1971) * Karl Michael Haider (1846–1912) * Jost Haller (fl. 1440−1470) *
Christian Gottlob Hammer Christian Gottlob Hammer, baptized as Gottlieb, (18 July 1779, Dresden, Saxony – 7 February 1864, Dresden), was an influential German landscape painter and engraver. Personal Hammer began his studies in 1794 at the Dresden University of Vis ...
(1779–1864) * Alois Hanslian (born 1943) * Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (1794–1848) *
Heinrich Harder Heinrich Harder (2 June 1858 – 5 February 1935) was a German artist and an art professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin best known for his depictions of extinct animals. Life Heinrich Harder was born in Putzar, Pomerania, the so ...
(1858–1935) * Fritz Harnest (1905–1999) * Hans Hartung (1904–1989) * Petre Hârtopeanu (1913–2001) *
Wilhelm Hasemann Wilhelm Hasemann (16 September 1850, Mühlberg - 28 November 1913, Gutach) was a German genre painter and illustrator. Life and career Hasemann was the only son of a mechanic and left school at the age of fifteen to work in his father's sh ...
(1850–1913) * Carl Hasenpflug (1802–1858) * Max Haushofer (1811–1866) * Eberhard Havekost (1967–2019) * John Heartfield (1891–1968) *
Erich Heckel Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group '' Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Ol ...
(1883–1970) * Jakob Hecker (1897–1969) *
Michael Heckert Michael Heckert (born 29 October 1950, in Halle an der Saale) is a contemporary painter who dedicates himself to abstract expressionism. The artist depicts and describes the phenomenon of the female. He was influenced by American painter Willem de ...
(born 1950) * Elise Neumann Hedinger (1854–1923) * Carl Wilhelm von Heideck (1788–1861) * Wilhelm Heine (1827–1885) * Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937–2020) * Thilo Heinzmann (born 1969) *
Johannes Heisig Johannes Heisig (born 23 April 1953 in Leipzig, East Germany) is a German painter and graphic artist. His work combines the tradition of German socialist realism with a subjective expressionism. He portrayed several famous German politicians s ...
(born 1953) * Werner Heldt (1904–1954) * Wilhelm Hempfing (1886–1948) *
Hermann Hendrich Hermann Hendrich (31 October 1854 in Heringen, Thuringia – 18 July 1931 in Schreiberhau in Niederschlesien) was a German painter. Life Hermann Hendrich was born in the vicinity of the storied Kyffhäuser, his parents were Auguste Friederi ...
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Wilhelm Hensel Wilhelm Hensel (6 July 1794 – 26 November 1861) was a German painter, brother of Luise Hensel, husband to Fanny Mendelssohn, and brother-in-law to Felix Mendelssohn. Life and career Wilhelm Hensel was born on 6 July 1794 in the German to ...
(1794–1861) * Thomas Herbst (1848–1915) * Friedrich Herlin (c. 1425/30–1500) * Franz Georg Hermann (1692–1768) * Curt Herrmann (1854–1929) * Ludwig von Herterich (1856–1932) * Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832–1932) * Heinrich Maria von Hess (1798–1863) * Karl Hess (1801–1874) *
Peter von Hess Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence. Life Peter von Hess initially received training from his fat ...
(1792–1871) * Carle Hessay (1911–1978) *
Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (10 September 1758, Stuttgart - 31 December 1838, Stuttgart) was a German Classical painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also created historical and mythological scenes. Biography His father wa ...
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Werner Heuser Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ...
(1880–1964) * Adolf von Heydeck (1787–1856) * Ernst Hildebrand (1833–1924) * Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–1868) * Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–1874) *
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the ...
(1893–1965) * Rudolf Hirth du Frênes (1846–1916) *
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) * Hannah Höch (1889–1978) *
Paul Hoecker Paul Hoecker (11 August 1854, Oberlangenau – 13 January 1910, Munich) was a German painter of the Munich School and founding member of the Munich Secession Biography His passion for art developed gradually, beginning at the Gymnasium in N ...
(1854–1910) * Angelika Hoerle (1899–1923) *
Bernhard Hoetger Bernhard Hoetger (4 May 1874 in Dortmund – 18 July 1949 in Interlaken) was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement. Life Hoetger was the son of a Dortmund blacksmith, he studied sculpture in Detmold fro ...
(1874–1949) * Heinrich Hofmann (1824–1911) *
Ludwig von Hofmann Ludwig von Hofmann (17 August 1861 – 23 August 1945) was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1 ...
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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) *
Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...
(1880–1966) *
Otto Hofmann Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...
(1907–1996) * Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460–1524) *
Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere;  – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest por ...
(c. 1497–1543) * Hans-Jörg Holubitschka (1960–2016) *
Johann Evangelist Holzer Johann Evangelist Holzer (December 24, 1709 – July 21, 1740) was an Austrian-German painter. Holzer was born in Burgeis, Mals, in the Vinschgau Valley of South Tyrol, as the son of a miller. He was sent to undertake a classical course ...
(1709–1740) * Helene Holzman (1891–1968) *
Barbara Honigmann Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director. Honigmann is the daughter of Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her pare ...
(born 1949) *
Theodor Horschelt Theodor Horschelt (16 March 1829, Munich – 3 April 1871, Munich) was a German painter who specialized in scenes from the Caucasian Wars. Biography Theodor Horschelt was the son of ballet master, Friedrich Horschelt (dancer), Friedrich Horsche ...
(1829–1871) * Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (1857–1934) * Theodor Hosemann (1807–1875) * Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894) *
Karl Hubbuch Karl Hubbuch (21 November 1891 – 26 December 1979) was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman associated with the New Objectivity. Life Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe and baptised in the Roman Catholic church. From 1908 to 1912, he studied ...
(1891–1979) * Julius Hübner (1806–1882) * Ulrich Hübner (1872–1932) * Juergen von Huendeberg (1922–1996) *
Carl Hummel Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel (31 August 1821, Weimar – 16 June 1907, Weimar) was a German landscape painter and etcher. Life and work He was the son of Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel. His studies ...
(1821–1907) * Maria Innocentia Hummel (1909–1946) * Otto Hupp (1859–1949) * Karl Hurm (1930–2019) * Auguste Hüssener (1789–1877)


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Berthold Imhoff Count Berthold von Imhoff (January 14, 1868 – December 14, 1939), was an artist known for his religious murals and paintings. Born in Germany in 1868, Imhoff immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in Reading, Pennsylvani ...
(1868–1939) * Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) * Caspar Isenmann (1410–1484) (hypothetical) * Carl G. von Iwonski (1830–1912)


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* Otto Reinhold Jacobi (1812–1901) * Paul Emil Jacobs (1802–1866) * Willy Jaeckel (1888–1944) * Ferdinand Jagemann (1780–1820) * Gustav Jäger (1808–1871) *
Karl Jäger Karl Jäger (; 20 September 1888 – 22 June 1959) was a German mid-ranking official in the '' SS'' of Nazi Germany and ''Einsatzkommando'' leader who perpetrated acts of genocide during the Holocaust. Early life and career Jäger was born in Sch ...
(1888–1959) * Michael Jäger (born 1956) *
Angelo Jank Angelo Jank (30 October 1868 in Munich – 9 October 1940 in Munich) was a German animal painter, illustrator and member of the Munich Secession. He was the son of the German painter Christian Jank and specialized in scenes with horses and rider ...
(1868–1940) * Christian Jank (1833–1888) * Peter Janssen (1844–1908) * Georg Jauss (1867–1922) * Carl Ludwig Jessen (1833–1917) *
Ernst Jordan Ernst Jordan (18 May 1883 – 1948) was a German Association football, football Defender (association football), defender who played for Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg. He was also called "Langmeier" because he was quite tall (German: „lang"). J ...
(1883–1948) * Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887) * Tina Juretzek (born 1952) * Manfred W. Jürgens (born 1956) * Paul Juvenel the Elder (1579–1643)


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* Johann Matthias Kager (1566–1634) * Leo Kahn (1894–1983) * Johannes Kahrs (born 1965) * Aris Kalaizis (born 1966) *
Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth :' Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth (15 May 1855 – 1 December 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes. Biography A direct descendant of field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born at Düsse ...
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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) * Patrick von Kalckreuth (1892–1970) * Friedrich Kallmorgen (1856–1924) * Arthur Kampf (1864–1950) * Albert Kappis (1836–1914) *
Suzan Emine Kaube Suzan Emine Kaube (born Emine Ese; 1942 in Pendik, Turkey) is a Turkish people, Turkish-German people, German writer, painter and pedagogue. As a pedagogue, her works has dealt with cultural integration. She has made several exhibitions in Germa ...
(born 1942) *
Arthur Kaufmann Arthur Kaufmann (4 April 1872 in Iași, Romania – 25 July 1938 in Vienna) was an Austrian attorney, philosopher and chess master. Life Kaufmann was the second son of a wealthy, Jewish merchant family in Iaşi, Romania. In early childhood, he m ...
(1888–1971) * Hugo Kauffmann (1844–1915) * Friedrich Kaulbach (1822–1903) * Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850–1920) * Hermann von Kaulbach (1846–1909) *
Wilhelm von Kaulbach Wilhelm von Kaulbach (15 October 18057 April 1874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography ...
(1805–1874) * Ferdinand Keller (1842–1922) * Moritz Kellerhoven (1758–1830) *
George Kenner George Kenner (1 November 1888 – 10 July 1971) was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian internee in Great Britain and the Isle of Man. Birth and background Kenner ...
(1888–1971) * Wolfgang Kermer (born 1935) * Marie von Keudell (1838–1918) * Chaim Kiewe (1912–1983) * Wilhelm Kimmich (1897–1986) * Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) *
Frank Kirchbach Johann Frank Kirchbach (2 June 1859, London – 19 March 1912, Schliersee), was a German historical-, portrait-, genre- and landscape-painter; who also operated as a graphic designer and illustrator. Biography His father was the artist, Ernst ...
(1859–1912) * Günther C. Kirchberger (1928–2010) * Alexander Kircher (1867–1939) * Otto Kirchner (1887–1960) *
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 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 ...
(1880–1938) * Johanna Kirsch (1856–1907) * Konrad Klapheck (born 1935) * Mati Klarwein (1932–2002) * Anna Klein (1883–1941) * Johann Adam Klein (1792–1875) * Richard Klein (1890–1967) * Paul Kleinschmidt (1883–1949) *
Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, L ...
(1784–1864) * Heinrich Kley (1863–1945) *
Max Klinger Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmak ...
(1857–1920) * Friedrich August von Klinkowström (1778–1835) * Hans Kloss (1938–2018) *
Robert Klümpen Robert Klümpen (born 1973 in Issum, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly app ...
(born 1973) * Georg Klusemann (1942–1981) * Karl Knabl (1850–1904) *
Hermann Knackfuß Hermann Knackfuss (german: Hermann Knackfuß) (August 11, 1848, Wissen, Rhenish Prussia – May 17, 1915) was a German painter and writer on art. He is known for his historical paintings, but his most-recognized work is his illustration on behalf ...
(1848–1915) * Johann Zacharias Kneller (1642–1702) *
Heinrich Knirr Heinrich Knirr (2 September 1862 – 26 May 1944) was an Austrian-born German painter, known for genre scenes and portraits, although he also did landscapes and still-lifes. He is best-known for creating the official portrait of Adolf Hitler for ...
(1862–1944) * Imi Knoebel (born 1940) *
Hugo Knorr Hugo Knorr (17 November 1834 – 29 September 1904) was a Prussian and German Empire, German painter and teacher of art, specializing in landscape art, landscape and marine art. Life Knorr was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. In 1852, when ...
(1834–1904) * Wilhelm von Kobell (1766–1853) * Martin Kober (~1550–~1598) *
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) * Robert Koehler (1850–1917) * Matthias Koeppel (born 1937) * Wilhelm von Köln (1370s?) *
Alois Kolb Alois Kolb (2 February 1875, in Vienna – 5 April 1942, 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 zon ...
(1875–1942) * Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (1771–1836) * Helmut Kolle (1899–1931) * Kätte Kollwitz (1867-1945) *
Max Koner Max Johann Bernhard Koner (17 July 1854, Berlin – 7 July 1900, Berlin) was a German portraitist. Biography From 1873 to 1878, he studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Eduard Daege, Anton von Werner and others. He spent some ...
(1854–1900) * Leo von König (1871–1944) * Emma Körner (1788–1815) *
Rudolf Kortokraks Rudolf Kortokraks (8 July 1928 – 11 September 2014) was a German painter from Ludwigshafen, Rhein. His paintings depict still life (particularly flowers), landscapes, cities and portraits. Kortokraks attended an art school in Graz in 1941, and ...
(1928–2014) * Theodor Kotsch (1818–1884) *
Johann Peter Krafft Johann Peter Krafft (15 September 1780, Hanau - 28 October 1856, Vienna) was a German-born Austrian painter who specialized in portraits, historical works and genre scenes. Biography His father was an enamel painter who originally came from a ...
(1780–1856) *
Lambert Krahe Wilhelm Lambert Krahe (15 March 1712, Düsseldorf – 2 November 1790, Düsseldorf) was a German history painter and art collector. Life He was the son of a government clerk. Nothing is known of his early education. He found a patron in Ferdi ...
(1712–1790) *
August von Kreling August von Kreling (May 23, 1818 – April 23, 1876) was a German sculptor born in Osnabrück. He studied with Peter von Cornelius, and in 1853 became director of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He became a member of the Munich Academy in 1876 ...
(1819–1876) *
Robert Kretschmer Robert Kretschmer (1812–1872) was a German illustrator, known for his illustrations in ''Brehms Tierleben''. References Further reading * Andreas Daum Andreas W. Daum is a German-American historian who specializes in modern German and transa ...
(1812–1872) *
Conrad Faber von Kreuznach Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (c. 1500 in Kreuznach, Germany – between 10 September 1552 and 15 May 1553 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German painter and woodcuts designer formerly known as Master of Holzhausen-portraits.Brücker, Wolfgang, ...
(c. 1500–1552/3) * Louis Krevel (1801–1876) * Karl Kröner (1887–1972) * Franz Krüger (1797–1857) * Sebastian Krüger (born 1963) *
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) *
Gerhard von Kügelgen Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen (6 February 1772 – 27 March 1820) was a German painter, noted for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Imperial Aca ...
(1772–1820) * Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832) *
Wilhelm von Kügelgen Wilhelm Georg Alexander von Kügelgen (20 November 1802, in St.Petersburg – 25 May 1867, in Ballenstedt) was a German portrait and history painter, writer, and chamberlain at the Court of Anhalt-Bernburg. He is best known for his posthumou ...
(1802–1867) * Gotthardt Kuehl (1850–1915) * Ingo Kühl (born 1953) * Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865–1926) * Konrad Kujau (1938–2000) * Friedrich Kunath (born 1974)


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* Curt Lahs (1893–1958) *
Mark Lammert Mark Lammert (born 30 September 1960, in Berlin), is a German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and stage designer. He lives and works in Berlin. Biography Lammert studied painting at Kunsthochschule Berlin from 1979 to 1986 and from 1 ...
(born 1960) * Christian Landenberger (1862–1927) * Friedrich Lange (1834–1875) * Joseph Lange (1751–1831) * Julius Lange (1817–1878) * Arthur Langhammer (1854–1901) *
Rainer Maria Latzke Rainer Maria Latzke (born 28 December 1950) is a German artist working in the field of ''trompe-l'œil'' and mural painting. He taught at the Utah State University and is founder of the Institute of Frescography. Latzke is Honorary Professor o ...
(born 1950) * Richard Lauchert (1823–1868) * Paul Lautensack (1478–1558) * Rudolf Lehmann (1819–1905) * Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943) * Fridolin Leiber (1853–1912) *
Ulrich Leman Ulrich Leman (15 October 1885 – 22 April 1988) was a German painter. Born in Düsseldorf, he became interested in painting at an early age and in 1919 he co-founded the group "The Young Rheinland" with other young painters of the day, including ...
(1885–1988) * August Lemmer (1862–?) *
Franz von Lenbach Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach (13 December 1836 – 6 May 1904), was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society ...
(1836–1904) *
Reinhold Lepsius Reinhold Lepsius (14 June 1857 – 16 March 1922) was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist. Biography He was born in Berlin, the son of Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), professor at the Frederick William University ...
(1857–1922) *
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) * Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880) *
Wolfgang Lettl Wolfgang Lettl (18 December 1919 – 10 February 2008) was a surrealism, surrealist Painting, painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany. His retrospective was exhibited at the Schaezlerpalais in 2019. In 1939, at the age of 20, Wo ...
(1919–2008) *
August Leu August Wilhelm Leu (24 March 1818 – 20 July 1897) was a German landscape painter of the Romantic school. Most of his pictures are large-format and depict scenes in Norway and the Alps. Biography Leu was born in Münster. He was a pupil of Jo ...
(1818–1897) * Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868) * Sophie Ley (1849–1918) * Wilhelm Lichtenheld (1817–1891) *
Max Liebermann Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...
(1847–1935) * Adolf Heinrich Lier (1826–1882) *
Hermann Linde Hermann Linde (26 August 1863, Lübeck - 26 June 1923, Arlesheim) was a German painter in the Symbolist style. He specialized in " Oriental" themes. Life and work He was the son of Hermann Linde the Elder, a pharmacist and pioneering photogr ...
(1863–1923) * Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther (1868–1939) * Richard Lindner (1901–1978) *
Karl Friedrich Lippmann Karl Friedrich Lippmann (also "Carl Fr. Lippmann" and "FK Lippmann"; 27 October 1883, in Offenbach am Main – 30 May 1957) was a German painter of the New Objectivity, known for landscapes and portraits. Life Karl Friedrich Lippmann was o ...
(1883–1957) *
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) * Clara Lobedan (1840–1918) * Stefan Lochner (c. 1410–1451) * Käthe Loewenthal (1878–1942) * August Löffler (1822–1866) *
Ludwig von Löfftz Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of ...
(1845–1910) * Max Lohde (1845–1868) * Otto Lohmüller (born 1943) * Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940) * Bernard Lokai (born 1960) * David Lorenz (1856–1907) * Heinrich Lossow (1843–1897) * Károly Lotz (1833–1904) * Margarethe Loewe-Bethe (1859–1932) * Auguste Ludwig (1834–1901) * Friedrich Ludwig (1895–1970) * Jules Lunteschütz (1822–1893) * Markus Lüpertz (born 1941) *
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) * Arnold Lyongrün (1871–1935)


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* Thilo Maatsch (1900–1983) *
Heinz Mack Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931) is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for h ...
(born 1931) *
August Macke August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly act ...
(1887–1914) * Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953) * Josef Madlener (1881–1967) * Alfred Mahlau (1894–1967) * Carl Malchin (1838–1923) * Christian Mali (1832–1906) * Lothar Malskat (1913–1988) * Jeanne Mammen (1890–1976) * Henriette Manigk (born 1968) * Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822) * Jean Mannheim (1863–1945) German-born American *
Ludwig Manzel Karl Ludwig Manzel (3 June 1858, Neu Kosenow – 20 June 1936, Berlin) was a German sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Life His father was a tailor and his mother was a midwife. The family moved twice, first to Boldekow then, in 1867, to ...
(1858–1936) *
Franz Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of '' Der Blaue Reiter'' (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later ...
(1880–1916) *
Hans von Marées Hans von Marées (24 December 1837 – 5 June 1887) was a German painter. Initially specialising in portraiture he later turned to mythological subjects. He spent the last years of his life in Italy. Life Marées was born into a banking family ...
(1837–1887) *
Carl von Marr Carl von Marr (February 14, 1858 – July 10, 1936) was an American-born German painter whose work encompassed religious and mythological subjects, genre art, genre, and portraits. He was also a professor of art in Munich. Biography He was ...
(1858–1936) * Jacob Marrel (1613/4?–1681) *
Johannes Martini Johannes Martini (c. 1440 – late 1497 or early 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Life He was born in Brabant around 1440, but information about his early life is scanty. He probably received his early training in Fl ...
(1866–1935) * Master of the Arboga altarpiece (fl. 1490–1525) * Master of the Drapery Studies (Heinrich Lützelmann) (fl. 1470–1500) * Master of the Karlsruhe Passion (Hans Hirtz?) (fl. 1421–1463) *
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece (sometimes called the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altar,) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Germany, mostly Cologne, between 1475/1480 and 1510. Despite his anonymity, he is one of the ...
(fl. 1475–1510) *
Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominati ...
(1893–1986) * Louis Mayer (1791–1843) *
Jonathan Meese Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He a ...
(born 1970) *
Lothar Meggendorfer Lothar Meggendorfer (6 November 1847 in Munich – 7 July 1925 in Munich) was a German illustrator and early cartoonist known for his pop-up books. He was first published in 1862 in the '' Fliegende Blätter'', an illustrated comic weekly, and fr ...
(1847–1925) * Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) * Else Meidner (1901–1987) *
Georg Meistermann Georg Meistermann (June 16, 1911 – June 12, 1990) was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe. From 1930, Meistermann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Werne ...
(1911–1990) * Hans Memling (c. 1430–1494) * Peter Menne (born 1960) *
Carlo Mense Carlo Mense (May 13, 1886 – August 11, 1965) was a German artist, associated at various times with the Düsseldorf school of painting, Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity. Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at the ...
(1886–1965) *
Adolph Menzel Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 18159 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of th ...
(1815–1905) * Joseph Anton Merz (1681–1750) * Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt (1858–1915) * Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (1808–1879) * Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842–1915) * Abraham Mignon (1640–1679) *
Carl Julius Milde Carl Julius Milde (16 February 1803, in Hamburg – 19 November 1875, in Lübeck) was a German painter, curator and art restorer. Life His father was a grocer whose business had been nearly ruined by the French period, French Occupation. Aft ...
(1803–1875) * Amud Uwe Millies (1932–2008) *
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) * Manfred Mohr (born 1938) * Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern (1805–1867) * Wilhelm Morgner (1891–1917) * Sabine Moritz (born 1969) * Friedrich Mosbrugger (1804–1830) * Adolf Mosengel (1837–1885) *
Georg Muche Georg Muche (8 May 1895 – 26 March 1987) was a German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher. Early life and education Georg Muche was born on 8 May 1895 in Querfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and grew up in the Rhön ...
(1895–1987) * Heinrich Mücke (1806–1891) * Otto Mueller (1874–1930) * Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930) * Georg Mühlberg (1863–1925) * Fritz Mühlenweg (1898–1961) * Andreas Müller (painter), Andreas Müller (1811–1890) * Heiko Müller (born 1968) * Maler Müller (1749–1825) * Otto Müller (painter), Otto Müller (1898–1979) * Victor Müller (1829–1871) * Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) * Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) * Gustav Mützel (1839–1893) * Johan van den Mynnesten (c. 1440–1504)


N

* Charles Christian Nahl (1818–1878) * Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833–1889) * Thomas von Nathusius (1866–1904) * August Natterer (1868–1933) * Julius Naue (1835–1907) * Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968) * Carl Nebel (1805–1855) * Otto Nebel (1892–1973) * Bernhard von Neher (1806–1886) * Rolf Nesch (1893–1975) * Caspar Netscher (1639–1684) * Gert Neuhaus (born 1939) * Andrea Neumann (1969–2020) * Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (1806–1882) * Jo Niemeyer (born 1946) * Wilhelm Theodor Nocken (1830–1905) * Emil Nolde (1867–1956) * Franz Nölken (1884–1918) * Bernt Notke (1435–1508/09?) * Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944)


O

* Franz Ignaz Oefele (1721–1797) * Ernst Erwin Oehme (1831–1907) * Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797–1855) * August Friedrich Oelenhainz (1745–1804) * Theobald von Oer (1807–1885) * Hans Olde (1855–1917) * Friedrich von Olivier (1791–1859) * Walter Ophey (1882–1930) * Ernst Oppler (1867–1929) * David Ostrowski (born 1981) * Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869)


P

* Amalia Pachelbel (1688–1723) * Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) * Otto Pankok (1893–1966) * Louise von Panhuys (1763–1844) * Jürgen Partenheimer (born 1947) * Eduard Pechuel-Loesche (1840–1913) * Werner Peiner (1897–1984) * A. R. Penck (1939–2017) * Carl Gottlieb Peschel (1798–1879) * Johann Anton de Peters (1725–1795) * Heinrich Petersen-Angeln (1850–1906) * Wolfgang Petrick (born 1939) * Johann Baptist Pflug (1785–1866) * Martin Erich Philipp (1887–1978) * Otto Piene (1928–2014) * Ludwig Pietsch (1824–1911) * Bruno Piglhein (1848–1894) * Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826–1886) * Hartmut Piniek (born 1950) * Theodor Pixis (1831–1907) * Oscar Pletsch (1830–1888) * Hermann Pleuer (1863–1911) * Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907) * Alois Plum (born 1935) * Tobias Pock (1609–1683) * Leon Pohle (1841–1908) * Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) * Heinrich Pommerencke (1821–1873) * Eduard Wilhelm Pose (1812–1878) * Michael Mathias Prechtl (1926–2003) * Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737) * Hermann Prell (1854–1922) * Hermione von Preuschen (1854–1918) * Heimrad Prem (1934–1978) * Johann Georg Primavesi (1774–1855) * Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) * Doramaria Purschian (1890–1972)


Q

* Franz Quaglio (1844–1920) * Simon Quaglio (1795–1878) * Silvia Quandt (born 1937) * Fritz Quant (1888–1933) * Otto Quante (1875–1947) * Curt Querner (1904–1976) * Tobias Querfurt (1660–1734)


R

* Doris Raab (1851–1933) * Johann Leonhard Raab (1825–1899) * Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763–1840) * Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866) * Lilo Ramdohr (1913–2013) * Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978) * Neo Rauch (born 1960) * Robert Hermann Raudner (1854–1915) * Karl Raupp (1837–1918) * Christopher Rave (1881–1933) * Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967) * Anita Rée (1885–1933) * Willy Reetz (1892–1963) * Theodor Rehbenitz (1791–1861) * Elke Rehder (born 1953) * Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820–1893) * Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719–1793) * Heinrich Reinhold (1788–1825) * Robert Reinick (1805–1852) * Carl Reinhardt (1818–1877) * Karl Rettich (painter), Karl Lorenz Rettich (1841–1904) * Moritz Retzsch (1779–1857) * Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (1794–1865) * Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965) * Gustav Richter (artist), Gustav Richter (1823–1884) * Hans Richter (artist), Hans Richter (1888–1976) * Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) * Gerhard Richter (born 1932) * Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) * August Riedel (1799–1883) * Franz Riepenhausen (1786–1831) * Johannes Riepenhausen (1787–1860) * Johann Christoph Rincklake (1764–1813) * Joachim Ringelnatz (1883–1934) * Wilhelm Ripe (1818–1885) * Otto Ritschl (1860–1944) * Paul Ritter (painter), Paul Ritter (1829–1907) * Günter Rittner (1927–2020) * Lorenz Ritter (1832–1921) * Theodor Rocholl (1854–1933) * Carl Röchling (1855–1920) * Bernhard Rode (1725–1797) * Hermen Rode (c. 1468–c. 1504) * Carl Rodeck (1841–1909) * Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937) * Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) * Julius Roeting (1822–1896) * Johann Martin von Rohden (1778–1868) * Stefan Roloff (born 1953) * Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685) * Johann Melchior Roos (1663–1731) * Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706) * Theodor Roos (1638–1698) * Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813–1881) * Walter Alfred Rosam (1883–1916) * Mike Rose (painter), Mike Rose (1932–2006) * Waldemar Rösler (1882–1916) * Kurt Roth (1899–1975) * Ferdinand Rothbart (1823–1899) * Johannes Rottenhammer (1564–1625) * Christian Ruben (1805–1875) * Dieter Rübsaamen (born 1937) * Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666–1742) * Hans Hinrich Rundt (c. 1660–c. 1750) * Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) * Heinrich von Rustige (1810–1900)


S

* Georg Saal (1817–1870) * Rolf Sackenheim (1921–2006) * Hubert Salentin (1822–1910) * Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) * Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688) * Georg Sauter (1866–1937) * Wilhelm Sauter (1896–1948) * Käte Schaller-Härlin (1877–1973) * Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968) * Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler (born 1956) * Auguste Schepp (1846–1905) * Osmar Schindler (1867–1927) * Adolf Schinnerer (1876–1949) * Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863) * Wilhelm Schirmer (1802–1866) * Eduard Schleich the Elder (1812–1874) * Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) * Thea Schleusner (1879–1964) * Hans-Jürgen Schlieker (1924–2004) * Eberhard Schlotter (1921–2014) * Torsten Schlüter (born 1959) * Georg Friedrich Schmidt (1712–1775) * Joost Schmidt (1893–1948) * Julia Schmidt (born 1976) * Jürgen Schmitt (born 1949) * Max Schmidt (1818–1901) * Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (1920–2021) * Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) * Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen (1922-2014) * Marc Schmitz (born 1963) * Bertha Schrader (1845–1920) * Leopold Schmutzler (1864–1940) * Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853) * Paul Schneider (painter), Paul Schneider (1884–1969) * Sascha Schneider (1870–1927) * Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken (1876–1943) * Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872) * Otto Scholderer (1834–1902) * Georg Scholz (1890–1945) * Karl Schorn (1803–1850) * Ludwig Schongauer (c. 1440–1494) * Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (1609–1684) * Julius Schoppe (1795–1868) * Georg Schrimpf (1889–1938) * Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899) * Lothar Schreyer (1886–1966) * Hans Schröder (artist), Hans Schröder (1931–2010) * Werner Schramm (1898–1970) * Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann (1904–1995) * Daniel Schultz (1615–1683) * Bernard Schultze (1915–2005) * Fritz W. Schulz (1884–1962) * Emil Schumacher (1912–1999) * Fritz Schwegler (1935–2014) * Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926) * Otto Schwerdgeburth (1835–1866) * Martel Schwichtenberg (1896–1945) * Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) * Lothar von Seebach (1853–1930) * Adolf Seel (1829–1907) * Else Sehrig-Vehling (1897–1994) * Louise Seidler (1786–1866) * Joseph Anton Settegast (1813–1890) * Christian Seybold (1695–1768) * Oskar Seyffert (1862–1940) * Daryush Shokof (born 1954) * Arthur Siebelist (1870–1945) * Clara Siewert (1862–1945) * Ludovike Simanowiz (1759–1827) * Richard Simon (painter), Richard Simon (1898–1993) * Franz Skarbina (1849–1910) * Dirk Skreber (born 1961) * Maria Slavona (1865–1931) * Max Slevogt (1868–1932) * Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805–1867) * Karl Rudolf Sohn (1845–1908) * Richard Sohn (1834–1912) * Wilhelm Sohn (1830–1899) * Alfred Sohn-Rethel (painter), Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1875–1958) * Else Sohn-Rethel (1853–1933) * Karli Sohn-Rethel (1882–1966) * Otto Sohn-Rethel (1877–1949) * Daniel Soreau (c. 1560–1619) * Isaak Soreau (1604–1644) * Michael Sowa (born 1945) * August Specht (1849–1923) * Friedrich Specht (1839–1909) * Erwin Speckter (1806–1835) * Johann Sperl (1840–1914) * Walter Spies (1895–1942) * Eugene Spiro (1874–1972) * Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885) * Hans Springinklee (c. 1490/5–c. 1540) * Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) * Anton Stankowski (1906–1998) * Christian W. Staudinger (born 1952) * Carl Steffeck (1818–1890) * Jakob Steinhardt (1887–1968) * Hermann Stenner (1891–1914) * David D. Stern (born 1956) * Robert Sterl (1867–1932) * Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858) * Franz Seraph Stirnbrand (c. 1788/94–1882) * Dora Stock (1760–1832) * Minna Stocks (1846–1928) * Curt Stoermer (1891–1976) * Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921) * Eva Stort (1855–1936) * Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657) * Willy Stöwer (1864–1931) * Paul Strecker (1898–1950) * Bernhard Strigel (c. 1461–1528) * Helene Marie Stromeyer (1834–1924) * Hermann Struck (1876–1944) * Franz von Stuck (1863–1928) * Fritz Stuckenberg (1881–1944) * Absolon Stumme (?–1499) * Emil Stumpp (1886–1941) * Helmut Sturm (1932–2008) * Rudolph Suhrlandt (1781–1862) * Florian Süssmayr (born 1963) * Stefan Szczesny (born 1951)


T

* Ruben Talberg (born 1964) * Wilhelm Ternite (1786–1871) * Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920) * Heinz Tetzner (1920–2007) * Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782) * Ludwig Thiersch (1825–1909) * Hans Thoma (1839–1924) * Paul Thumann (1834–1908) * Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722–1789) * Johann Jacob Tischbein (1725–1791) * Johann Valentin Tischbein (1715–1768) * Ernst Toepfer (1877–1955) * Christiaan Tonnis (born 1956) * Gero Trauth (born 1942) * Hann Trier (1915–1999) * Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917)


U

* Otto Ubbelohde (1867–1922) * Günther Uecker (born 1930) * Philipp Uffenbach (1566–1636) * Fritz von Uhde (1848–1911) * Maria Uhden (1892–1918) * Fred Uhlman (1901–1985) * Lesser Ury (1861–1931) * Adolf Uzarski (1885–1970)


V

* Johannes Veit (1790–1854) * Philipp Veit (1793–1877) * Henry Vianden (1814–1899) * Clara Vogedes (1892–1983) * Hugo Vogel (painter), Hugo Vogel (1855–1934) * Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) * Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868) * Karl Völker (1889–1962) * Max Volkhart (1848–1924) * Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875) * Friedrich Voltz (1817–1886) * Johann Michael Voltz (1784–1858) * Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899–1962) * Wolf Vostell (1932–1998)


W

* Karl Wilhelm Wach (1787–1845) * Friedrich Wachenhusen (1859–1925) * Carl Wagner (painter), Carl Wagner (1796–1867) * Johann Salomon Wahl (1689–1765) * Paul Wallat (1879–1964) * Horst Walter (1936–2012) * Petrus Wandrey (1939–2012) * Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) * Max Peiffer Watenphul (1896–1976) * August Weber (1817–1873) * Felix Weber (artist), Felix Weber (born 1965) * Paul Weber (artist), Paul Weber (1823–1916) * Johannes Wechtlin (c. 1480–?) * Karl Weinmair (1906–1944) * Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1758–1828) * Theodor Leopold Weller (1802–1880) * Gottlieb Welté (1745–1792) * Anton von Werner (1843–1915) * Eberhard Werner (1924–2002) * Brigitta Westphal (born 1944) * Friedrich Bernhard Westphal (1803–1844) * Christian Wilberg (1839–1882) * Ludwig Wilding (1927–2010) * August von Wille (1828–1887) * Michael Willmann (1630–1706) * Albert Windisch (1878–1967) * Fritz Winter (1905–1976) * Harald Winter (born 1953) * Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) * Hermann Wislicenus (1825–1899) * Adolf Wissel (1894–1973) * Johann Michael Wittmer (1802–1880) * Edmund Wodick (1816–1886) * Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869) * Karla Woisnitza (born 1952) * Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944) * Joseph Wolf (1820–1899) * Balduin Wolff (1819–1907) * Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) * Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1894–1974) * Walter Womacka (1925–2010) * Georg Philipp Wörlen (1886–1954) * Franz Wulfhagen (c. 1624–1670) * Paul Wunderlich (1927–2010) * Noah Wunsch (born 1970) * Nicholas Wurmser (1298–1367)


Z

* Erich Zander (art director), Erich Zander (1889–1965) * Herbert Zangs (1924–2003) * Johann Eleazar Zeissig (1737–1806) * Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450–c. 1519) * Wolfgang Zelmer (born 1948) * Alexander Zick (1845–1907) * Januarius Zick (1730–1797) * Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959) * Hans-Peter Zimmer (1936–1992) * Adolf Zimmermann (1799–1859) * Albert Zimmermann (1808–1888) * Clemens von Zimmermann (1788–1869) * Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680–1758) * Max Zimmermann (1811–1878) * Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815–1893) * Richard Zimmermann (1820–1875) * Robert Zimmermann (painter), Robert Zimmermann (1815–1864) * Thomas Zipp (born 1966) * Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941) * Anton Zwengauer (1810–1884) * Anton Georg Zwengauer (1850–1928) * Gustav Philipp Zwinger (1779–1819) * Oskar Zwintscher (1870–1916)


See also

*:German painters *List of German artists – including all visual and plastic arts *List of German women artists


References


External links

* {{European painters German painters, * Lists of German people by occupation, Painters Lists of painters by nationality, German