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Helene Cramer is a German floral artist, landscape and portrait painter. She studied painting privately in Hamburg, The Hague and Antwerp.
Helen Kramer is best known for her colourful floral still lifes. Her work was regularly shown at major German exhibitions. And Helen herself was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, the Artists' Association of Northwest Germany, the Berlin Artists' Association and the Vienna Association of Writers and Artists.


Detlev Nitschke is a German painter. For many years he worked in lithography, later he developed an interest in watercolour painting, in particular in cityscapes.


Detlev Nitschke is a German painter. For many years he worked in lithography, later he developed an interest in watercolour painting, in particular in cityscapes.


Wilhelm Heinrich Ernst Eitner was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known as an impressionist painter and teacher.
Eitner produced portraits, landscapes, and woodcuts in a style reminiscent of Japanese art. Despite initial rejection in German society of his impressionist style of painting, over the years he gained recognition and even the title "Claude Monet of the North." Eitner was a member of numerous art associations. His works are preserved in the Hamburg Kunsthalle.


Wilhelm Heinrich Ernst Eitner was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known as an impressionist painter and teacher.
Eitner produced portraits, landscapes, and woodcuts in a style reminiscent of Japanese art. Despite initial rejection in German society of his impressionist style of painting, over the years he gained recognition and even the title "Claude Monet of the North." Eitner was a member of numerous art associations. His works are preserved in the Hamburg Kunsthalle.


Wilhelm Heinrich Ernst Eitner was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known as an impressionist painter and teacher.
Eitner produced portraits, landscapes, and woodcuts in a style reminiscent of Japanese art. Despite initial rejection in German society of his impressionist style of painting, over the years he gained recognition and even the title "Claude Monet of the North." Eitner was a member of numerous art associations. His works are preserved in the Hamburg Kunsthalle.


Thomas Ludwig Herbst was a German Impressionist painter; known mostly for landscapes and animal portraits.


Thomas Ludwig Herbst was a German Impressionist painter; known mostly for landscapes and animal portraits.


Gretchen Wohlwill was a painter and member of the Hamburg Secession. She was one of the German students at the Académie Matisse in Paris and developed a painting style influenced by French avant-garde art. In addition to painting, graphics were a focus of her work. Persecuted by the National Socialists because of her Jewish background, she emigrated to Portugal in 1940. After twelve years in exile, she returned to Hamburg in 1952.


Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley is a German painter whose favorite subject is the mountain landscapes of Norway. His father was the painter Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Oesterley.


Detlev Nitschke is a German painter. For many years he worked in lithography, later he developed an interest in watercolour painting, in particular in cityscapes.


Walter Tanck was a German landscape painter, engraver and woodcarver. He studied painting with Franz Nölken in Hamburg.
In 1937, as part of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign, his graphic portfolio "Don Quixote" (15 etchings and a lithograph on the title page) from the Dusseldorf Art Collection and his panel "Nude Woman" were confiscated and destroyed.


Erich Mercker was a German landscape, industrial and city painter and speed skater.
