Friedrich Karl Gotsch was born on 3rd February, 1900 in Kiel-Pries, Germany and died on 21st September, 1984 in Schleswig, Germany. Gotsch volunteered for the military from 1918 to 1919 and then began to study, which he soon gave up again. In 1919…

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…

Rudolf Grossmann was born on 25th January, 1882 in Freiburg, Germany and died on 28th November, 1941 in Freiburg. Grossmann began his education in painting and printmaking at Dusseldorf Academy, and went on to study in Paris, under Lucien Simon and…

Hans Grundig was born on 19th February, 1901 in Dresden, Germany and died on 11th September, 1958 in Berlin. Grundig studied 1920 - 1921 at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts. He went on to study at the Dresden Academy from 1922 - 1923. During…

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…

Wilhelm von Kaulbachwas born on 15th October 1805 in Bad Arolsen, Germany and died in Munich, Germany of cholera on April 7th 1874. Kaulbach was a painter, illustrator, and muralist associated with the German Romantic movement. He attended the…

Max Kaus was born 11 March 1891 in Berlin, and died 5 August 1977 in Berlin. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg and was heavily influenced by the artists of Die Brucke. Although he made prints form 1916, his most…

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…

Johannes Koelz was born in 1895 in Bavaria, Germany and died in 1971 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He served in World War I and was decorated with the Iron Cross for bravery. After the war he was a master student at the Munich Academy of Art and…

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…