The sculptor, printmaker and playwright Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) was born in Wedel and studied in Dresden, Hamburg and briefly in Paris, where he discovered Millet and Meunier before he moved to Berlin in 1899.  A trip to Russia in 1906 inspired…

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) was born in Dresden, where he also studied. In 1915 he met Ludwig Meidner, with whom he shared a studio in Berlin, and in 1916 he and Lyonel Feininger exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s Gallery der Sturm. He served as a…

Albrecht Dürer was born in the Imperial free city of Nuremberg (Germany) on the 21st May 1471, to a family of Hungarian goldsmiths. Initially apprenticed to his father, Dürer spent most of his life in Nuremberg, but also made three significant…

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He graduated with a diploma in engineering from the Royal College of Science and Technology in Munich in 1905, but was devoted to art, and after graduating, Kirchner and fellow…

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) initially trained in painting but is primarily known for printmaking and was also a sculptor. Unlike many other female artists at that period, her father, who recognised her drawing talent and approved her aim to become a…

Heinz Koppel was born in Berlin in 1919 and died in 1980 in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was a Jewish refugee who fled Germany with his family and moved to Prague and then London before finally settling in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. His mother…

Paula Modersohn-Becker was born on February 8, 1876 in Dresden, Germany, and died on November 21, 1907 in Worpswede, Germany. She was  a German painter who studied in Bremen, London, Paris and Berlin. Paula married fellow artist Otto Modersohn in…

The painter and printmaker Otto Mueller (1874-1930) was born in Liebau, Silesia. Before studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Art between 1896 and 1898 he had been a lithographer in Görlitz. In 1898, he moved away from the big city life to…

Richard Seewald was born on May 4th, 1889 in Arnswalde, Poland, and died on October 29, 1976 in Munich, Germany. His father, Emil Seewald, originated probably from Bavaria or Tirolia. His mother was from a Swiss family. Seewald became a Swiss…

Extract from the article: Despite his untimely death on the battlefields of Verdun in 1916, Marc was a prolific painter, especially between 1911 - when he helped farm he Blaue Reiter group - and the outbreak of the First World War, when he produced…