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Alfred Mahlau (21 June 1894 in
Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
– 22 January 1967), German painter, illustrator and teacher. He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass window,
Dance of Death The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning represen ...
, in the Lübeck Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church in Lübeck), which paid homage to a famous mural of the Dance of Death in the church that was destroyed in the bombing of
Lübeck Lübeck (; or ; Latin: ), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Lübeck (), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic Sea, Baltic coast and the second-larg ...
during World War II. His books include a number of works with paintings and drawings of Hamburg and the Hamburg port. The product design for
Niederegger J. G. Niederegger GmbH & Co. KG is a producer of Lübeck Marzipan, marzipan and sweets which is based in Lübeck, Germany. Niederegger was founded in Lübeck on 1 March 1806 by Johann Georg Niederegger (1777–1856). The company is a family- ...
from the twenties is still in use. Among his students were Horst Janssen, Vicco von Bülow, and Chinese-German artist Dr Chow Chung-cheng. His work is collected by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, among others.


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1894 births 1967 deaths Artists from Berlin 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters German graphic designers German illustrators Stained glass artists and manufacturers {{Germany-artist-stub