Max Beckmann (1884-1950) was born in Leipzig and studied at the Weimar Academy before he moved to Berlin in 1905, where he joined the “Berlin Sezession” in 1907 and met Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt. During the Berlin period, he founded the…

Max Burchartz was born on July 28th 1887, Elberfeld, Germany and died on January 31st 1961, Essen, Germany. In 1907 he began studying at an art academy in Düsseldorf but World War I prevented him from finishing. After World War I he withdrew to…

Heinrich Campendonk was born 3rd November 1889 in Krefeld, Germany and died 9th May 1957 in Amsterdam. As a young artist, he took part in the first exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter in December 1911 in Munich. Contact with the artists in Der Blaue…

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York and studied between 1887-1893 in Hamburg, Berlin, Liège and Paris. In 1893, he settled in Berlin where he became a successful cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers and journals in the following…

August Gaul was born on October 22nd, 1869 in Großauheim, Germany and died on October 18th, 1922 in Berlin. He was a founding member of the Berlin Secession. On close terms with art dealers like Bruno and Paul Cassirer, he became a leading figure…

Arnold Gerstl was born 17 October 1888 in Prague and died 14 February 1957 in Taplow, UK. He attended the Imperial and Royal Academy in Prague, then in Vienna, Paris and Spain. He was in charge of the Art Department at the film studios in…

Walter Gramatté was born in 1897 in Berlin and died in 1929 in Hamburg. Gramatté had a very short (15 years) career but a very productive one – paintings, drawings and prints with subjects of figures, portraits, still life’s, landscapes and book…

George Grosz (1893-1959) was born in Berlin and studied in Dresden until 1911 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin. Like many of his colleagues, Grosz originally appreciated the rise and outbreak of the First World War as a chance for…

Erich Heckel (1883-1970) was born in Dobeln, Germany. He and Schmidt-Rottluff studied architecture in Dresden but after founding the “Brücke” group, both left the University in 1905. In 1910, Heckel met the dancer Sidi Riha, who posed for some of…

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was born in Moscow and emigrated at the age of thirty to Munich to study painting. In 1902 he met artist Gabriele Münter with whom he had a relationship until the outbreak of the First World War. Between 1908 and 1914…