Heinrich Knirr (1862 - 1944)

Heinrich Knirr

Heinrich Knirr was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known for his genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and still lifes, and is most famous for the official portrait of Adolf Hitler, which he painted in 1937.

Knirr was a member of the Munich and Vienna Secession, as well as the German Artists' Association. He produced portraits, mostly of children, genre paintings, still lifes and landscapes. Knirr was a sought-after painter during the National Socialist era; he painted official portraits of the leaders of the Third Reich, for which he was nicknamed the "court painter".