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…

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…

Hermann Struck was born on March 6, 1876 in Berlin, Germany, and died on January 11, 1944 in Haifa, Israel. He was a German Jewish artist.

Georg Tappert was born on October 20, 1880 in Berlin, Germany, and died on November 17, 1957 in Berlin, Germany. He was a German painter.

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…

Hedwig Weiss was born in 1860 in Konigsberg, and died in 1923 in Berlin.

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…

Rudolf Heinrich Zille was born on January 10, 1858 in Radeburg, Germany, and died on August 9, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. He was a German illustrator and photographer.

Many developed a radical, modernist approach, placing them firmly within the Expressionist canon of work. Many had found initial success through the Berlin Secession, the breakaway progressive faction at the turn of the century led by Max…

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…