Werner Peiner (20 July 1897 – 19 August 1984) was a German painter. He was first influenced by

expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

, but he became one of the most known and talented official painters of the

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. Peiner was born at

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

. 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 Conrad Hommel (16 February 1883 – 11 November 1971) was a German painter. He was best known for his portraits of leading German entrepreneurs such as Max Grundig, Herbert Quandt, and politicians such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Pau ...

and

Adolf Wissel Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism. Wissel, who was born in Velber, was a painter in the genre of Nazi folk art, the idea being that these paintings should show ...

, 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 A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

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