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Emil Rau was a German painter and gesture painter.
He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Rau specialized in portraits and paintings of domestic genre scenes of rural and bourgeois life in Germany, romantic and idealized. Pastoral paintings of shepherds and shepherdesses against the backdrop of alpine mountains, ruddy cheerful girls, and rich peasant homes were very popular with the general public. Emil Rau's illustrations were published in youth and family magazines and in the weekly satirical magazine Fliegende Blätter.
Margarita Pueva is a Bulgarian and German painter and sculptor.
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She has lived and worked in Germany since 1991 and opened the Pueva Gallery in Düsseldorf in 2003.
Pueva focused mainly on the human figure. The people in her paintings are strange, introverted, passive and vulnerable, but her work recalls the magical land of Alice and her Mad Hatter. She was inspired by medieval religious sculpture and the primitive art of Africa. Pueva's work is regularly presented in Germany, France, Italy, and the UK.
Otto Steinert was a German photographer.
Franz Skarbina was a German painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as an Impressionist painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and etching artist.
Franz Scarbina came under the influence of the Impressionists early in his career, in this style he depicted city life, salons, and beach scenes. The artist worked as a teacher at the Berlin Academy of Arts, headed the anatomical drawing department at the school of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. The most fruitful for the master were 1882-1886 years - he, living in Paris, created many works, visited Africa, Belgium and Holland.
Skarbina was one of the founders of the art group and a participant of the Berlin Secession. A street in Berlin is named after him.
