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Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke was a German historical painter and illustrator. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Art. In 1826 he followed Wilhelm von Schadow to the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Here he developed the almost forgotten technique of frescoes with the support of directors Peter Cornelius and von Schadow.
Carl Heinrich Anton Mücke spent 1834-1835 in Rome with the Nazarene on a one-year work grant. Here he found his thematic focus - painting religious history.
In 1844 Mücke was appointed teacher of anatomy at the academy in Düsseldorf and in 1848 he was appointed professor at the same institution.
Karl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their painters. His work was among those considered degenerate art by the Nazis, but after World War II he regained recognition as one of the leading German painters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German painter of the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. He is known as a landscape painter, a representative of the Barbizon School.
Otto Modersohn produced Barbizonian-style landscapes early in his career, but from about 1890 his style became more expressionist, with an emphasis on his choice of colors. The death of his second wife influenced his style: the colors became darker and the images more stark. Modersohn was one of the founders of the Worpswede artists' colony. A large collection of his works is kept in the Modersohn Museum in Fischerhude, and a street in Berlin is also named after him.
Karl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their painters. His work was among those considered degenerate art by the Nazis, but after World War II he regained recognition as one of the leading German painters.
Karl Hagemeister was a German landscape painter.
Karl Hagemeister was a German landscape painter.
Karl Otto Götz was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was one of the oldest living and active artists older than 100 years of age and is best remembered for his explosive and complex abstract forms. His powerful, surrealist-inspired works earned him international recognition in exhibitions like documenta II in 1959. Götz never confined himself to one specific style or artistic field. He also explored generated abstract forms through television art. Götz is one of the most important members of the German Art Informel movement.
Karl Kluth was a German painter. He was a member of the Hamburg Künstlerverein, the Hamburg Artists' Association and the Hamburg Secession.
Karl Kluth was a German painter. He was a member of the Hamburg Künstlerverein, the Hamburg Artists' Association and the Hamburg Secession.
Karl Kluth was a German painter. He was a member of the Hamburg Künstlerverein, the Hamburg Artists' Association and the Hamburg Secession.
Karl Kluth was a German painter. He was a member of the Hamburg Künstlerverein, the Hamburg Artists' Association and the Hamburg Secession.
Karl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their painters. His work was among those considered degenerate art by the Nazis, but after World War II he regained recognition as one of the leading German painters.
Karl Hofer was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.
One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", but was influenced by their painters. His work was among those considered degenerate art by the Nazis, but after World War II he regained recognition as one of the leading German painters.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Renée Sintenis was a German sculptor, medallist, and graphic artist who worked in Berlin. She created mainly small-sized animal sculptures, female nudes, portraits, and sports statuettes. She is especially known for her Berlin Bear sculptures, which was used as the design for the Berlinale's top flim award, the Golden Bear.
Karl Ulrich Nuss is a German artist and sculptor who creates large-scale bronze compositions.
His father was the sculptor Fritz Nuss (1907-1999), Karl Ulrich Nuss continued his work and developed an unmistakable design style that characterizes all his sculptures. They depict single people, couples, families, as well as new fantastical creations from the animal kingdom. These works can be seen in public spaces in Bochum, Frankfurt/Main and Stuttgart.
Karl Hauptmann was a German landscape painter who specialised in mountain views.
Karl Lorenz was a German expressionist painter and poet. In the 1920s he edited several expressionist journals and worked on publications with representatives of the Hamburg Secession. However, as an artist, he was self-taught.
Friedel Anderson is a German landscape, architectural and object painter.
Friedel Anderson's artistic work encompasses a wide range of techniques and motifs, from landscapes painted against nature, city and harbour views to portraits and still lifes. The landscapes initially focused on the Nordic region. Later, regular journeys through Europe (Italy, France, England) and Africa expanded the themes of his travel and landscape paintings. Anderson found further focal points of his work in shipping, the industrial working world, as well as in the cultural and natural spaces around harbours, rivers and industrial ruins. Interiors and still lifes are also among Anderson's important motifs.
Alexander Max Koester was a German painter. He depicted coastal landscapes and still lifes with flowers. After the artist first presented one of his landscapes with a family of ducks in Berlin in 1899, he earned the nickname "Duck Koester." The "duck" paintings were extremely popular with art lovers.
Friedrich Karl Gotsch, actually Friedrich Karl Müller, was a German painter and graphic artist.
After a phase of intense research into Picasso's cubism and experimentation with abstract techniques, the artist developed "late expressionism", which was typical of his work. Even during his lifetime, Gotsch was highly respected as one of the few painters of his generation who painted representational pictures. He also participated in numerous exhibitions and received renowned awards.
Karl Horst Hödicke is a German artist, a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism and new figuration, and one of the most important representatives of German post-war painting.
After moving to Berlin in 1957, Hödicke encountered the eventful history of Berlin - the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and reunification - and reflected it in his paintings.
Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation," according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.