1. Emil Nolde (1867)

German Artist

German Expressionist painter who used watercolor and oil paints to create "Lesende junge Frau" and other works.

2. Käthe Kollwitz (1867)

German Artist

German painter and sculptor whose work depicted an intense account of the human condition and the tragedy of war.

3. Kurt Schwitters (1887)

German Artist

Surrealist, Constructivist, and Dada artist who was best known for his expressive collages including "Merz Pictures." His artistic proficiency extended beyond collages, though, to include poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic...

4. Oskar Schlemmer (1888)

German Artist

Painter, sculptor, and designer associated with the Bauhaus School. He was best known for "Triadisches Ballett" that transformed actors into geometrical shapes.

5. Hannah Höch (1889)

German Artist

Weimar period Dada artist who pioneered the photomontage art form. She was revolutionary in that she included same-sex couples in her work.

6. Otto Dix (1891)

German Artist

Painter and printmaker known for "Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas" and other works that exposed the harsh realities of war. He was prominent within the Neue Sachlichkeit.

7. Max Ernst (1891)

German Artist

Pioneer Dada and Surrealist artist whose works included "Ubu Imperator" from 1923 and "L'Ange du Foyer" from 1937. He and another surrealist, Hans Bellmer, were interned in Camp des Milles...

8. Christian Schad (1894)

German Artist

Dada and New Objectivity painter who became known for his post-World War I portraits of life in Berlin and Vienna.

9. Oskar Fischinger (1900)

German Artist

German animator, visual artist, and filmmaker who is widely recognized for having created animated sequences set to music decades prior to the advent of computer-generated imagery.

10. Wolf Vostell (1932)

German Artist

German painter, sculptor, and installation and video artist known for his technique of Dé-collage and blurring.

11. Gerhard Richter (1932)

German Artist

Top-selling photo-painter and abstract artist whose best-known works included "Atlas" and "Baader-Meinhof." One of the pioneers of the New European Painting movement. Sought to emulate Picasso and Jean Arp's philosophy...

12. Dietmar Damerau (1935)

German Artist

German artist who created his pieces from a wide variety of materials. He made a 106 square-meter painting that took three years.

13. Sigmar Polke (1941)

German Artist

German experimental painter and photographer who co-founded the Capitalist Realism movement in art. He was awarded the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen in 2007.

14. Hanne Darboven (1941)

German Artist

Conceptual artist most known for her large-scale, Minimalist installations of handwritten tables of numbers, such as "Konstruktionen" from the 1966-1967 and "Mathematical Music" from the 1980s.

15. Rebecca Horn (1944)

German Artist

Installation artist and director who rose to fame for creating the body modification pieces Pencil Mask and Unicorn.

16. Anselm Kiefer (1945)

German Artist

Painter and sculptor famous for his use of materials like straw, ash, clay, and shellac. Many of his paintings from 1980 to 1983 referenced National Socialist architecture, including Hitler's Berlin...

17. Gunta Stölzl (1897)

German Artist

German textile artist who was the only female master in the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop. She played an important role in the school's transition from individual pictorial works to modern...

18. Neo Rauch (1960)

German Artist

German painter whose work encompassed both the personal and the political. He received the Vincent Award in 2002.

19. Clemens von Wedemeyer (1974)

German Artist

Clemens von Wedemeyer born is a German video artist. He studied fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with Astrid Klein. In 2004 von Wedemeyer produced together with...

20. Sebastian Bieniek (1975)

German Artist

Sebastian Bieniek is an German director artist photographer and author. He was born in Czarnowasy Poland.

21. Johann König (1586)

German Artist

Johann König was a German painter. The son of a Nuremberg goldsmith König was a follower of Adam Elsheimer. He is known today primarily because of his very finely painted...

22. Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse (1918)

German Artist

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse is a typographer calligrapher and book-binder. She is the 1991 winner of the Frederic W. Goudy Award. She designed several fonts for the type foundry D....

23. Stefan Ettlinger (1958)

German Artist

Stefan Ettlinge is a German painter and draughtsman. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at Alfonso Hüppi as a master student. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

24. Karl Schorn (1803)

German Artist

Karl Schorn was a German painter and chess master. He was a member of the Berlin Pleiades in the first half of the 19th century.

25. Wolfgang H. Scholz (1958)

German Artist

gang H. Scholz is a German painter photographer and film director. He lives and works in Mexico City and Munich.

26. Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802)

German Artist

von Kügelgen was a German portrait and history painter writer and chamberlain at the Court of Anhalt-Bernburg. He is best known for his posthumously published memoirs which have gone through...

27. Fritz Maurischat (1893)

German Artist

z Maurischat was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years he worked on over 70 films all of them in his...

28. Charlotte Posenenske (1930)

German Artist

Charlotte Posenenske née Mayer was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominately worked in sculpture but also produced paintings and works on paper.

29. Janosch (1931)

German Artist

Janosch is one of the best-known German artists and children's book authors. He was born in Hindenburg in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Polish heritage....

30. Heinz Mack (1931)

German Artist

Heinz Mack is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany...

31. Christiane Kubrick (1932)

German Artist

Christiane Kubrick is a German actress dancer painter and singer. She was born into a theatrical family and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death...

32. Ursula Merchant (1932)

German Artist

Ursula Merchant is a German Las Vegas- based German performance artist conceptual artist carpenter. She is probably best known for her series 'Forkin' Hell'.

33. Alois Plum (1935)

German Artist

Alois Johannes Plum is an artist working in Mainz Germany who has acquired a national reputation for his stained glass his paintings and his plastic art. Active since the 1950s...

34. Horst Antes (1936)

German Artist

Horst Antes is a German artist and sculptor. After his Abitur he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in...

35. Georg Baselitz (1938)

German Artist

Georg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the...

36. Christa Dichgans (1940)

German Artist

Christa Dichgans is a Berlin-based German painter associated with the Pop Art movement.

37. Heinz Budweg (1940)

German Artist

Heinz Budweg is a German painter who currently resides in Sao Paulo Brazil. Budweg is considered the best living artists in the speciality of painting the Indians of the Amazon...

38. Erich Kissing (1943)

German Artist

Erich Carl Kissing is a German painter known for his fantastic themes in combination with his high-precision glacing technique. On 27 September 1943 Kissing and his twin sister were born...

39. Alexander Kanoldt (1881)

German Artist

Alexander Kanoldt was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity. Kanoldt was born in Karlsruhe. His father was the painter Edmond Kanoldt a...

40. Andreas Nottebohm (1944)

German Artist

Andreas Nottebohm born in 1944 is an American/German artist whose work is associated with Op Art visionary art and Space Art. He is considered one of the key innovators of...

41. Erich Ott (1944)

German Artist

Erich Ott is a German sculptor engraver and designer. He is best known for his design of numerous German commemorative coins and designed the German Deutsche Mark coinsin 1977 the...

42. Martin Kippenberger (1953)

German Artist

Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media superfiction as well as his provocative jocular and hard-drinking public...

43. Michael Sowa (1945)

German Artist

Michael Sowa is a German artist known mainly for his paintings which are variously whimsical surreal or stunning. His paintings often feature animals and are titled in English and German.

44. Eberhard Bosslet (Unknow)

German Artist

Eberhard Bosslet is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works such as sculpture installation light art and painting all indoors and outdoors since 1979.

45. Emil Schult (1946)

German Artist

Emil Schult is a German painter poet and musician. He is most famous for his collaborations with the electronic music band Kraftwerk. He has created most of their sleeve designs...

46. Nanne Meyer (1953)

German Artist

Nanne Meyer is a German artist. She is one of the first women artists of the postwar generation who works primarily in drawing. Meyer lives and works in Berlin.

47. Thomas Schütte (1954)

German Artist

Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

48. Horst Gläsker (1949)

German Artist

Horst Gläsker is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music dance theatre drawing painting sculpture installation and architecture.

49. Albert Oehlen (1954)

German Artist

Albert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. Oehlen lives and works in Bühler and Segovia.

50. Markus Heinsdorff (Unknow)

German Artist

Markus Heinsdorff is a German installation artist working in the areas of design architecture and photography.