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Franz Heckendorf was a German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the Weimar Republic. During the National Socialist era, he was sentenced to ten years in prison after helping Berlin Jews threatened with deportation to extermination camps to escape to Switzerland.
Hans Marsilius Purrmann was a German artist.
He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and Munich before going to Paris in 1906. It was here he became a student and later a friend of Henri Matisse whom he set up a painting school with.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Fritz Overbeck was a German artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and printmaker, famous for his landscapes of the northern regions of Germany.
Fritz Overbeck began his career at the Worpswede Art Colony, where he developed his talent by depicting desolate moorland landscapes. Landscapes remained his favorite genre, although while studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts he also dabbled in portraiture and architecture. One of Overbeck's nicknames is "the painter of clouds" for his masterful and recognizable depiction of puffy cloud formations in blue skies. The artist is also known for his more than 60 etchings, emphasizing his skill and creative diversity.
Abraham van Beerstraaten was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age, son of the painter Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten. He is known for his paintings depicting urban winter landscapes with people.
Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer was a painter, professor and art critic; associated with the Willingshausen Artists' Colony.
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively.
