Wilhelm Morgner was born on January, 27, 1891 in Soest, Germany, and died on August 16, 1917 in Langemark, Germany. He was a German painter and graphic designer. He made several prints in the stark German tradition, many of men and women working in…

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was born as Emil Hansen in Nolde, a town in the North of Germany. He was initially trained as a woodcarver but started to paint as an independent artist in 1898. Before he settled in 1903 in Alsen during the summer and in…

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…

Josef Scharl was born on December 9, 1896 in Munich, Germany, and died on December 6, 1954 in New York, United States. He was a painter and graphic designer. Scharl trained as a decorative painter at the Munich School of Painters, where he gained…

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was born in Rottluff and studied architecture in Dresden with Erich Heckel before they formed, with Bleyl and Kirchner, “die Brücke” in 1905. The group were influenced by the works of Nietzsche and Schmidt-Rottluff…

Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg was born on March 1, 1889 in Vienna, Austria, and died on September 4, 1942 in Trostinets extermination camp in Minsk, Belarus. He was an Austrian painter. He grew up as the young avant-garde artists of the Secession (formed…

Arthur Segal was born to Jewish parents 13 July 1875 in Iaşi, Romania, and died 23 June 1944 in London. He studied at the Berlin Academy from 1892; with Schmid-Reutte and Hölzel in Munich in 1896; and later in Paris and Italy in the early 1900s. He…

Max Slevogt was born in 1868 in Landshut, Germany, and died in 1932 in Neukastel. After studying art at the Munich Academy and in Paris at the Académie Julian, he moved to Berlin and became involved with the Berlin Secession, meeting Corinth and…

Richard Ziegler was born 3 May 1891 in Pforzheim, Germany, and died 23 February 1992. Ziegler was entirely self-taught and turned to painting full-time after the First World War at the age of 29. He travelled extensively and his Italian landscapes…