Werner Peiner (20 July 1897 – 19 August 1984) was a German painter. He was first influenced by expressionism, but he became one of the most known and talented official painters of the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. Peiner was born at

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

. His major influences came from the German Romantic and Realistic painters. In some of his best works there can be noticed also some expressionist influences, like in the tapestries of ''The Four Hoursemen of the Apocalypse'', executed in 1937. Like other German painters favored during the

, such as Conrad Hommel and Adolf Wissel, his reputation in the

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was tainted after

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- he then worked e.g. for the Ethiopian Emperor

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...

.Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945'' (i.e. Cultural Encyclopedia about the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945.), S. Fischer Verlag,

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

2007. , p. 452. In his last decades, he was mainly a landscape painter. He died at

Leichlingen Leichlingen (officially Leichlingen (Rheinland); Ripuarian: ''Lëijchlinge'') is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Leichlingen is a centre for apple and berry growing in the region. Geography Leichlingen ...

in 1984.

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1897 births 1984 deaths Artists from Düsseldorf 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub