Ludwig von Hofmann was born on August 17, 1861 in Darmstadt, Germany, and died on August 23, 1945 in Pillnitz, Germany. Ludwig von Hoffmann was one of the founder members in 1899 of the Berlin Secession. He developed a heightened Romantic, poetic…

Willy Jaeckel was born on 10th February, 1888 in Breslau, Poland and died on 30th January, 1944 in Berlin.

Alexej von Jawlensky was born in 1867 in Torzhok, NW of Moscow, Russia, and died in 1941 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin came from Russia to Munich in 1896 and soon became friends with Kandinsky. Influenced by Van Gogh and…

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…

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…

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) was born in Meiderich and studied at the School of Arts and Crafts as well as at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. On trips to Paris he discovered the works of Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin who influenced his…

Hedwig Frieda Käthe Marquardt was born 28 November 1884 in Magdeburg, Germany, and died 14 April 1969 in Hanover, Germany. She initially trained as an art teacher in Kassel, but went on to study art at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Magdeburg, and then…