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Jenny Fikentscher (born Nottebohm) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the Art Nouveau movement. She studied at the School of Women Painters in Karlsruhe and later became part of the Grötzingen artist colony. Fikentscher married animal painter Otto Fikentscher and raised five children in an unconventional artistic household. She was known for her botanical motifs and lithographs, often featuring local plants. Fikentscher also created collectible images for the Stollwerck chocolate company.
Wilhelm Schmurr was a German painter and co-founder of the Sonderbund in Düsseldorf. His style, characterized by clear expression, was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists, and Realists. He received several awards and medals for his work and was a member of various art associations. Schmurr taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and inspired by the farmers after the war, he created scenes of simple life and still lifes. He was awarded the Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Preis and the Bundesverdienstkreuz erster Klasse and became an honorary member of various artist associations.
Otto Ackermann was a 19th-century German painter, mainly of landscapes. In 1897, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he remained until his death. He painted mainly landscape paintings of Belgium and the Netherlands, also working in printmaking on the same subjects. He was chairman of the local Düsseldorf Painters' Society and is mentioned in the diaries of Albert Herzfeld.
Johann Adam Ackermann was a German landscape painter of the early 19th century. His best-known works are his winter landscapes and watercolours. Johann Ackermann was the brother of Georg Friedrich Ackermann, who also painted landscapes but with less success.
Lucien Adrion was a French post-impressionist painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known for his depictions of the French countryside and beaches, as well as of Parisian life, including landscapes, still lifes, figures and landmarks.
Throughout his career, Adrion exhibited his work at the Salons in Paris, where he was praised for his ability to capture the movement and transience of city life.
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann was a German painter and art writer from Hamburg. He was a member of the Hamburgische Künstlerclub of 1897, as well as of the Hamburg artist's workshop of 1832 and pupil of the Académie Matisse in Paris. After the First World War, he was a co-founder of the Hamburg Secession.
Jakob Alt was an Austrian landscape painter, graphic artist and lithographer. He studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
He travelled extensively through the Austrian Alps and the Danube regions, painting landscapes. For 5 years he lived and worked in Italy. During his travels the artist also collected an extensive herbarium, which is now preserved in the Provincial Museum of Lower Austria.
Otto Altenkirch was a German impressionist painter and stage designer. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Otto Altenkirch was one of the founders of the Künstlervereinigung Dresden, one of the artists who worked at the Dresden Museum and the Opera House.
For two decades one of his favourite subjects was the linden alley in Rheinsberg. In 1941 and 1943 his works were exhibited in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (exhibition of Nazi-approved art in Munich).
Louise Elisabeth Andrae was a German Post-Impressionist landscape painter and watercolorist. She studied with two landscape painters; Gustav Adolf Thamm in Dresden and Hans von Volkmann in Karlsruhe. She settled in Dresden, but spent long periods on the island of Hiddensee. There, she helped organize a group known as the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund, an association of women artists that included Clara Arnheim, Elisabeth Büchsel, Käthe Loewenthal and Katharina Bamberg. They were regular exhibitors at an art venue known as the Blaue Scheune (Blue Barn), established in 1920 by Henni Lehmann. She also exhibited frequently with a group known as the Kunstkaten in Ahrenshoop.Wikipedia
Christian Arnold was a German painter and graphic artist. He is best known for his landscape paintings that often depicted the rural and coastal regions of northern Germany.
Arnold studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bremen. His work was heavily influenced by the German Expressionist movement, and he often used bold colors and thick brushstrokes to create a sense of emotional intensity in his paintings.
In addition to his landscapes, Arnold also produced numerous portraits, still lifes, and religious works. He worked in a variety of mediums, including oil paints, watercolors, and printmaking.
Arnold's work was exhibited widely during his lifetime, and he received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the arts. Today, his paintings are held in collections around the world, including the National Gallery in Berlin and the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Georg Arnold-Graboné was a painter of German impressionism and an art teacher.
Arnold-Graboné became well known for his unique style of Palette knife painting. His technique used the texture of thickly applied paint to create an actual three-dimensional representation of a landscape. In Graboné's works, the colors are remarkable for their brilliance, distinguishing his landscapes from those of other pallet-knife painters. The brilliance is a result of Graboné's color-separation technique in knife-painting. His favorite subjects were of the Alps of Bavaria and South Tirole, the Isle of Capri, the English Garden in Munich, the lake region surrounding Starnberg, and fishing boats on the North Sea. His unusual signature is incised into the wet paint with the opposite end of the brush, almost invariably on the bottom left hand of his oil paintings (and on the bottom right for watercolors).
Albert Arnz was a German landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school. He studied painting from 1854 to 1860 at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art, where his two teachers were Andreas and Oswald Achenbach. Arntz painted atmospheric landscapes in Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Albert Arntz was a member of the Malkasten Art Society and participated in their "living paintings" from 1875 onwards.
Gerhard Ausborn was a German painter. He studied painting at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.
Landscapes, ancient sites and modern cities characterise the subject of Gerhard Ausborn's paintings. In parallel, he creates abstract compositions without objects.
The paintings are inspired by impressions the artist gathered during his numerous journeys to many countries around the world. The paintings were not created on location, but always afterwards in his Hamburg studio. They are not intended to be an exact copy of reality, but rather, in memory, what is seen is reduced to the essentials and combined with the artist's own ideas, sensations and experiences.
Gottfried Albert Maria Bachem was a German painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School. Bachem, who belonged to the Malkasten artists' association from 1921 to 1932, painted portraits, genre scenes and landscapes, and he also illustrated children's books. From 1900 he took part in numerous art exhibitions, including in Berlin.
Constantin Ludwig Bauer was a German painter. Numerous landscape watercolors come from Bauer. Bauer studied from 1869 to 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He learned figure painting from Alexander Wagner and copperplate engraving from Johann Leonhard Raab. In 1878 Bauer moved to Obermais (South Tyrol). There he devoted himself to landscape painting.
Siegfried Berndt, born 1880 in Germany and passing away in 1946, was a distinguished painter and printmaker whose artistic contributions are often overlooked in art history. After studying at the Dresden Art Academy, Berndt received a travel scholarship that profoundly influenced his art, taking him to cities like Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, London, and Scotland. These travels exposed him to diverse artistic movements, enriching his work with elements of Impressionism, Expressionism, and New Objectivity.
Berndt was especially skilled in the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking technique, which he employed to explore various artistic styles. This unique approach resulted in color woodcuts with a distinct personality, appealing to a wide range of collectors. His woodblock prints are particularly noted for their innovative use of this traditional technique, blending it with Western artistic movements.
Despite the challenges posed by the two World Wars, Berndt's work found its way into public collections and was recognized for its artistic merit. However, much of his pictorial work was lost due to the turmoil of war. Some of his expressive pastel works, often repeated with small variations, as well as oil paintings, have been documented.
Berndt's art remains relevant for collectors, auctioneers, and experts in art and antiques, particularly for those interested in the intersection of Eastern and Western printmaking techniques. His work, although not as widely known, represents a unique blend of styles and techniques that contribute to the rich tapestry of early 20th-century art.
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Tom Beyer is a German artist.
Beyer studied at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts, traveled throughout Europe, in 1931 opened a studio in Berlin and joined the Communist Party. Although the National Socialists who came to power in Germany in 1937 forbade him to exhibit, from 1939 to 1945 Beyer took part in World War II as a Wehrmacht soldier.
After the war, Beyer led an active social and artistic life. He was also a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and became its chairman in 1950. As a member of the SED, Beyer reflected in his works the socialist construction in his country, depicting nature and people. He created a large mural for the Löwenschen Saal hall in the Stralsund town hall. From 1972 he taught part-time at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.
Karl Biese was a German landscape painter, draftsman, and lithographer. After initially working as a theater painter, he received a scholarship to study at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts in 1883. Biese later returned to Hamburg, where he became a master painter and established his own business. Biese was one of the founders of the Karlsruhe Artists' Association and created lithographs for the association's print workshop. He found inspiration for his nature-themed works during his travels around Karlsruhe, the Black Forest, the Moselle region, and northern Germany. Biese was particularly known for his atmospheric paintings, especially his winter scenes. He primarily worked with oil painting and lithography mediums. Biese also designed collectible images for Stollwerck chocolate company's albums.
Otmar Blaser is a contemporary German artist. In 1967 he studied at the Werkkunstschule with Prof. Holweck. In 1968 he traveled through Europe, the Middle East, Canada and America. From 1970-1976 he studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 1975 he was a master's student with Professor Bachmann, in 1976 he was an assistant to Professor Kapitsky at the Institute of Visual Communication and Design. In 1977 he was a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Neukölln, collaborating freelance with the Theatertreffen Berlin.
Herbert Böttger was a German artist. He is considered one of the most important representatives of magical realism in Germany. He studied painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art.
Herbert Böttger was a member of the Rhine Secession, was awarded the Prussian State Prize and received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg.
Böttger's paintings are characterised by the composition of the old masters and a photorealistic painting style, but at the same time seem surreal because of their exaggerated realism.
Erwin Bovin is a German painter and poet. He received his first art education at the School of Applied Arts in Neuchâtel under the direction of William Racine. He took part in the First World War as an interpreter. During this time, he created, among other things, drawings and watercolors depicting the front in the Argonne forest. After the war, he continued to study and worked as an art teacher. In 1932-1942 he lived as a freelance artist. After leaving his position as a teacher, he went to Amsterdam to visit the Rembrandt exhibition there, and then stayed to live in the Netherlands. In addition to landscapes, Bovin painted numerous portraits and family paintings for wealthy Dutch people.
Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht was a German landscape painter.
A late Romanticist painter, Bracht was known for his moody landscapes and coastal scenes in North Germany, and began a sketching trip through Syria, Palestine and Egypt from 1880 to 1881. In 1882, he became a Professor of Landscape Painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts.
Later, Bracht became a representative of German Impressionism.
In 1901, he obtained a teaching position at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts that he held until 1919.
Wilhelm Brandenburg was a German landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School of painting.
Wilhelm Brandenburg created a large number of romantic views of the Rhine and Moselle landscapes. He also travelled to the Tyrol, Upper Bavaria and Switzerland.
Johann Wilhelm Brücke was a German landscape and architectural painter. He studied painting at the Berlin Academy of Arts.
Johann Wilhelm Brücke spent 5 years in Italy with the support of his teacher Johann Erdmann Hummel and a small grant, creating landscapes and vedotes of Roman architecture. The artist found his own style early on and his work is easily recognisable by his use of reddish sunset colours. However, some of his later paintings are reminiscent of Edward Gertner's almost photographically realistic works.
Elisabeth Büchsel, full name Elisabeth Charlotte Helene Emilie Büchsel, was a German artist. She studied painting in Berlin, Dresden, Paris and Munich.
Elisabeth Büchsel painted mainly portraits and landscapes of Rügen and Stralsund. From 1904 she lived and worked on the island of Hiddensee from spring to autumn.
Büchsel was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Germany.
Anton Burger was a German painter, draftsman and etcher. He was a prolific and versatile painter, producing works in almost every genre. His paintings sold very well and, in the area around Kronberg, it was considered a sign of good taste to have a "Burger" in one's home. In 1861, he and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (an old friend from his days at the Städelschule) founded the Kronberg Artists' Colony, where he remained until his death. He was highly regarded and came to be known as the "King of Kronberg".
Michiel Carree of Karé was a Dutch painter and decorator of the Golden Age.
Carree was a famous landscape painter: King Frederick of Prussia invited him to Berlin and appointed him court painter. After the king's death, he returned to Holland and was mainly engaged in decorating the palaces of the noble townspeople. Carrée often depicted livestock in his landscapes, and these paintings can now be seen in the Rotterdam Museum.
Carl Gustav Carus was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a landscape painter, as well as a scientist, physician (gynecologist, anatomist, pathologist, psychologist) and a major theorist of Romanticism in art.
Carus created idyllic landscapes depicting moonlit nights, mountains, forests, Gothic architecture and ruins. In his work, according to critics, he combined a romantic view of nature with the classical ideal of beauty, understood the beautiful as a triad of God, nature and man. Noteworthy are his small-format, spontaneously created landscape sketches with images of clouds. The master is the author of "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" - one of the main theoretical works that laid the foundations of the German Romantic school of painting.
Maria Caspar-Filser was a German painter. She lived and worked mainly in Munich.
In 1913, she was the only woman among the founding members of the artists' association Münchener Neue Secession. In 1925 she became the first German woman painter to be awarded the title of professor. She taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Caspar-Filser primarily painted flowers, gardens and landscapes, influenced equally by Impressionism and Expressionism.
The Nazis considered Caspar-Filser's paintings "degenerate".
Louis Catoir, full name Johann Ludwig Catoir, German landscape painter. His pupil was Gustav Jacob Canton.
Louis Catoir participated in art exhibitions in Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg. His son, Theodor Catoire, was also a painter and draughtsman; around 1862 he founded a lithographic workshop in Mainz.
Max Clarenbach was a German painter of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, landscape painter, genre painter and teacher and is considered one of the most important representatives of Rhenish painting of his time.
Max Clarenbach made study trips to Italy and Holland early in his career, where he formed his genre preferences and became a landscape painter. His work reflected the influence of the Hague School and the French Barbizonians. The artist skillfully depicted winter scenes and the nature of western Germany. He also painted sports and street scenes.
Clarenbach was one of the organizers of the Düsseldorf Sonderbund and taught at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art.
Johann Wilhelm Cordes was a German landscape painter.
Johann Wilhelm Cordes entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf in 1842, where he studied with Karl Friedrich Lessing and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.
He specialised in realistic landscapes painted during his travels. He also created coastal scenes with staffage.
Konrad Cramer was a German-born American painter. He was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and he emigrated to the United States in 1911. A naturalized U.S. citizen, he is "often credited as being an important link between German and American modernism in art."
Gabriele Daube is a German artist known for her cityscapes and still lifes.
Gabriele Daube's works are often characterized by bold colors and expressive brushwork. She drew inspiration from the natural world, including city and seascapes.
In addition to painting, Daube also worked as a graphic artist and illustrator.
Arthur Degner was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Degner studied between 1906 and 1908 at the Art Academy in Königsberg under Ludwig Dettmann and Otto Heichert. In 1909 he came to Berlin after a stay in Munich. In 1912 he exhibited in the gallery of Paul Cassirer, at whose suggestion he had traveled to Paris in 1910. In 1919 he became a board member of the Free Secession, of which he had been a member since 1911. In 1920 he was appointed to the Königsberg Academy. In 1925 he returned to Berlin, where he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts (HBK). From 1931 to 1933 he was chairman of the Berlin Secession. After the National Socialists seized power, he was banned from working and exhibiting. Nevertheless, the Villa Romana Prize of the German Association of Artists enabled him to study in Florence in 1936 and in 1937 he became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists.
Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard was a German-Austrian painter.
Deininger-Arnhard painted mostly landscapes from the Tyrolean and Bavarian regions, but also depicted rural interiors, in oil and watercolor. She was best known for her depictions of the Ötztal. According to her own account, she painted more than 1,000 large-format oil paintings. These may be found in collections in various cities in Germany, Tyrol, Vienna, Paris, Holland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and North America.
Adolf des Coudres was a German landscape painter. His father was Ludwig des Coudres, a painter and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Despite this, he did not support his son's desire to become a painter. It was only after his father's death in 1878 that he was able to begin his studies. In 1881, he enrolled at the Academy, where he studied with Gustav Schönleber, who had a profound influence on his style. He remained there until 1890, making several stays at artists' colonies. After completing his studies, he worked as a freelance painter until 1909, participating in exhibitions at Baden-Baden and Munich, including several showings at the Glaspalast, as well as Karlsruhe. He also helped establish a private painting school for women. He often visited Holland; staying at the artists' colony in Ahrenshoop. In 1910, he moved to Fürstenfeldbruck, where he built a villa and studio for myself and his sister Luise. He participated in creating the first art exhibition there in 1914.
Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann was a German illustrator, genre and landscape painter. He focused on genre art, but also painted plein air style at the Mittelrhein, the Main and throughout Hesse. In 1841, Gerhardt von Reutern invited him to visit the Artists' Colony in Willingshausen, where he created scenes of village life. The following year, he opened a studio at the Städelschule and took further lessons with Anton Burger. In the early 1860s, he and Burger moved to Kronberg, where they founded their own artists' colony. In addition to painting, he often worked as an illustrator.
Max Doerner was a German artist and art theorist. Doerner's artistic education was at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich where he studied under Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez. His style was impressionistic. He travelled around Europe, in particular to the Low Countries and Italy, and studied the old techniques of painting. He is most noted for his work The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting, first published in 1921. His approach inspired the founding of the Doerner Institute. He was also an instructor at the Munich Academy, where his students included Karl Gatermann the Younger.
Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger was a Bavarian landscape painter. The son of Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder, he was born in Munich and was instructed in art by his father and by Mannlich. He travelled by himself through the picturesque regions of Bavaria, Switzerland, and France. His works are distinguished for spirited composition and taste in their execution. In 1803 he became Restorer, and in 1808 Inspector of the Royal Gallery at Munich, and was subsequently elected a member of the Academies of Hanau, Vienna, Berlin, and Munich.
Alexander Eckener was a German painter and graphic artist. He received his initial artistic training and inspiration from Jacob Nöbbe, a local artist in Flensburg. With his support, Eckener was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1888 to 1892. After graduating, he returned to his home town and became part of the Ekensund Artists' Colony. In 1899, he went to Stuttgart and was accepted by the State Academy of Fine Arts. There, he was a master student of Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, who introduced him to the art of etching; another genre in which he became proficient. After 1908, he taught at that Academy himself and was named a Professor in 1912. He took on the position of Professor of lithography and woodcuts in 1925.
Alphonse Epple was a German landscape, portrait and ecclesiastical painter. In 1919 he studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts under Bernhard Pancock. Presumably, he learned there the technique of fresco painting, the skill in which brought him commissions in later years. His passion was the depiction of religious subjects. In addition to paintings on religious motifs, he painted portraits of friends and acquaintances, landscapes depicting the idyll of his native nature or reflecting an interest in the rural and folk way of life. Apple uses a free, fast brush to capture the ever-changing lighting situation. His oil paintings are characterized by impasto application of paint, and the influence of the Impressionists is especially noticeable in the depictions of landscapes. Completely abandoning contours, Epple formed his compositions from wide dotted lines located side by side.
Richard Hermann Eschke was a German marine and landscape painter.
Richard Eschke became known as a pupil of his father Hermann Eschke and the Berlin Academy. Eschke lived in England for several years, where he made studies for a number of paintings.
Richard Eschke was awarded the small gold medal of the Berlin Art Exhibition.