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…

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…

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…

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born October 24, 1906 in Vienna, Austria, and died on June 10, 1996 in London, UK . Marie-Louise von Motesiczky has been called ‘The Undiscovered Expressionist’. A pupil of Max Beckmann in the 1920s, she emigrated to…

Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was born in Nierendorf and studied first in Berlin and then in Weimar where he met Liebermann in 1874. In 1901, he left Weimar and, following an invitation by the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus, went to Hagen where he…

Christian Schad was born on August 21, 1894 in Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, Germany, and died on February 25, 1982 in Stuttgart, Germany. Before World War I he attended the Munich Academy for a short time. In 1913 his first woodcuts appeared in various…

Renée Sintenis was born on March 20, 1888 in Glatz, Silesia, and died on April 22, 1965 in Berlin, Germany. She was a sculptor and engraver noted for her figures of athletes, animal sculptures and portrait heads. She was encouraged by Rilke, in…

Johannes Walter-Kurau was born in 1869 in Mitau, Latvia, and died in 1932 in Berlin.  He studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersurg and returning to Latvia, painted intensively and opened his own studio. He was born Janis Valters…

Lotte Laserstein was born in Preussich-Holland, Prussia. One of the first female students to study at the Berlin Academy 1921-27, Laserstein was taught by the painter Erich Wolfsfeld. Through Wolfsfeld, Laserstein encountered the paintings firstly…

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) was born in Berlin. She moved to Munich and became pupil and partner of Kandinsky in 1902 after he and further members of the “Phalanx” group had opened an art school. Münter and Kandinsky travelled through France between…