Notable Alumni of Dusseldorf Art Academy [Sorted List]

1. Theobald von Oer

1807-1885 (aged 78)

illustrator painter

Theobald Reinhold Freiherr von Oer was a German painter, illustrator and etcher. He is notable for his portraits, genre paintings and historic paintings. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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2. Karl Ferdinand Wimar

1828-1862 (aged 34)

painter

Karl Ferdinand Wimar, was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo.

3. Morten Müller

1828-1911 (aged 83)

graphic artist painter

Morten Müller was a Norwegian landscape painter.

4. Hilla Becher

1934-2015 (aged 81)

architectural photographer conceptual artist photographer

Hilla Becher was a German conceptual photographer. Becher was well known for her industrial photographs, or typologies, with longtime collaborator and husband, Bernd Becher. Her career spanned more than 50 years and included photographs from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Italy.

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5. Bengt Nordenberg

1822-1902 (aged 80)

painter

Bengt Nordenberg was a Swedish artist. He belonged to the Düsseldorf school of painting and is best known for his genre paintings with everyday life scenes from the Dalarna, Skåne and Blekinge areas of Sweden. He moved to Düsseldorf in the 1850s.

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6. Berndt Lindholm

1841-1914 (aged 73)

drawing teacher painter

Berndt Adolf Lindholm was a Finnish landscape painter ( belonging to Swedish speaking population of Finland ). He is usually associated with the Düsseldorf School, but his work also displays early Impressionist elements. He specialized in coastal scenes.

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7. Franz Ittenbach

1813-1879 (aged 66)

painter

Franz Ittenbach was a German religious painter, in the Nazarene style, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

8. Ludvig Munthe

1841-1896 (aged 55)

landscape painter painter

Ludvig Munthe was a Norwegian-born, German landscape painter.

9. August Becker

1822-1887 (aged 65)

painter draftsperson

August Becker was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

10. Hermann Anschütz

1802-1880 (aged 78)

painter French teacher university teacher

Hermann Anschütz was a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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11. Walter Ophey

1882-1930 (aged 48)

painter

Walter Hugo Ophey was a German painter and graphic designer, known for Rhenish Expressionism. He was a member of the Sonderbund group and Young Rhineland art groups.

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12. Jakob Becker

1810-1872 (aged 62)

university teacher painter lithographer

Jakob Becker was a German artist noted mainly for his genre paintings of peasants.

13. Karl Hübner

1814-1879 (aged 65)

painter

Karl Wilhelm Hübner was a German landscape and genre painter, in the Romantic style.

14. Thomas Huber

1955-. (aged 71)

printmaker performance artist painter conceptual artist installation artist

Thomas Huber is a Swiss artist who lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf for several years and is currently resident in Berlin.

15. Ulrike Rosenbach

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher video artist television producer new media artist multimedia artist

Ulrike Rosenbach is a video artist from Germany. Rose Bach works with videotapes, installations and performances. She was one of the first artists from Germany to use video for experiments with electronic images. Her videotapes critique the traditional representation of women and help formulate the identity of women from a feminist perspective.

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16. Johann Wilhelm Preyer

1803-1889 (aged 86)

painter

Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a German still life painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

17. George Henry Hall

1825-1913 (aged 88)

painter

George Henry Hall was an American still-life and landscape artist. He studied art in Düsseldorf and Paris and he worked and lived in New York City, the Catskills of New York and in Europe. His works are in museum collections in the United States and Europe. Over the course of his career he sold 1,659 paintings.

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18. August Wilhelm Leu

1818-1897 (aged 79)

painter

August Wilhelm Leu was a German landscape painter of the Romantic school. Most of his pictures are large-format and depict scenes in Norway and the Alps.

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19. Anders Askevold

1834-1900 (aged 66)

painter

Anders Askevold was a Norwegian painter. His art was characterized by romantic national expression. He was best known for his fjord landscapes from Western Norway.

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20. Gustav Graef

1821-1895 (aged 74)

painter

Gustav Graef was a German painter, primarily of portraits and historical subjects.

21. Theodor Hosemann

1807-1875 (aged 68)

draftsperson teacher caricaturist graphic artist painter

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Hosemann was a German genre painter, draftsman, illustrator and caricaturist.

22. Johann Georg Meyer

1813-1886 (aged 73)

painter university teacher

Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, commonly known as Meyer von Bremen, was a German painter who specialized in Biblical, peasant, and family scenes.

23. Friedrich Georg Weitsch

1758-1828 (aged 70)

painter portrait painter history painter court painter

Friedrich Georg Weitsch was a German painter and etcher.

24. Hugo Vogel

1855-1934 (aged 79)

painter portrait painter fresco painter university teacher

Hugo Vogel was a German painter, known primarily for historical scenes and portraits.

25. August Cappelen

1827-1852 (aged 25)

painter

Hermann August Cappelen was a Norwegian painter. Cappelen was best known for his melancholic, dramatic and romantic landscape compositions.

26. Adolf Schrödter

1805-1875 (aged 70)

university teacher painter illustrator

Adolf Schrödter or Adolph Schroedter was a German painter and graphic artist; associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of German comics.

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27. Benjamin Vautier

1829-1898 (aged 69)

painter genre painter illustrator university teacher

Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier was a Swiss genre painter and illustrator.

28. Pavel Svedomsky

1849-1904 (aged 55)

painter

Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky was a Russian painter and the brother of another artist, Alexander Svedomsky.

29. Barthélémy Toguo

1967-. (aged 59)

painter printmaker sculptor visual artist photographer

Barthélémy Toguo is a Cameroonian painter, visual and performing artist. He currently splits his time living and working in both Paris, France and Bandjoun, Cameroon. He works in a variety of media aside from visual and performing arts including photographs, prints, sculptures, videos, and installations.

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30. Hermann Knackfuß

1848-1915 (aged 67)

writer painter art historian university teacher

Hermann Knackfuss was a German painter and writer on art. He is known for his historical paintings, but his most-recognized work is his illustration on behalf of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, Peoples of Europe, Guard your Dearest Goods, which has become an iconic symbol of the use of the yellow peril to justify European imperialism in Asia at the...

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31. Herbert Zangs

1924-2003 (aged 79)

installation artist painter performance artist

Herbert Zangs was a German artist associated with postwar abstraction. He is best known for his white material collages and reliefs (Verweißungen), which contributed significantly to the development of abstract art in Germany after World War II.

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32. Fritz von Wille

1860-1941 (aged 81)

painter lithographer draftsperson landscape painter genre painter

Friedrich Gustav August Julius Philipp Rudolf von Wille, known as Fritz, was a German landscape painter and art professor; associated with the Düsseldorf School.

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33. Adolf von Becker

1831-1909 (aged 78)

painter

Adolf von Becker was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent. He was one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

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34. Georg Meistermann

1911-1990 (aged 79)

university teacher painter graphic artist

Georg Meistermann was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe.

35. Ludwig Knaus

1829-1910 (aged 81)

painter etcher

Ludwig Knaus was a German genre painter of the younger 7 Düsseldorf school of painting.

36. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

1807-1863 (aged 56)

painter graphic artist teacher university teacher

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich.

37. Adelsteen Normann

1848-1918 (aged 70)

painter

Eilert Adelsteen Normann was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway. Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted The Scream. Normann's fjord paintings are credited with making the Norwegian fjords a more popular tourist destination.

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38. William Holbrook Beard

1825-1900 (aged 75)

painter

William Holbrook Beard was an American painter who is known best for his satirical paintings of beasts performing human-like activities.

39. Richard Caton Woodville, Sr

1825-1855 (aged 30)

painter

Richard Caton Woodville was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of morphine in London at the age of 30. He was the father of Richard Caton Woodville Jr., also a noted artist. In his short career he produced...

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40. Gunnar Berg

1863-1893 (aged 30)

photographer painter

Gunnar Berg was a Norwegian painter, known for his paintings of his native Lofoten. He principally painted memorable scenes of the everyday life of the local fishermen.

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41. Lothar Baumgarten

1944-2018 (aged 74)

installation artist lighting designer serigrapher artist ethnographer

Lothar Baumgarten was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Berlin. His work includes installation and also film.

42. Anatol Herzfeld

1931-2019 (aged 88)

sculptor performance artist watercolorist draftsperson

Anatol Herzfeld was a German sculptor and mixed-media artist, and also a policeman. A student of Joseph Beuys, he primarily used wood, iron and stone as materials. As an artist, he simply signed Anatol. He received attention for a happening, crossing the Rhine in a boat he created with Beuys, after Beuys had been expelled from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

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43. Arthur Kampf

1864-1950 (aged 86)

university teacher teacher painter draftsperson visual artist

Arthur Kampf was a German painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

44. Julius Kronberg

1850-1921 (aged 71)

painter university teacher

Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg was a Swedish artist and decorative painter.

45. Konrad Klapheck

1935-2023 (aged 88)

painter architectural draftsperson screenwriter printmaker teacher

Konrad Klapheck was a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combined features of Surrealism and Neorealism.

46. Katharina Sieverding

1941-. (aged 85)

photographer university teacher

Katharina Sieverding is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

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47. Eugene von Guerard

1811-1901 (aged 90)

painter

Johann Joseph Eugene von Guérard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 until 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard.

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48. Ants Laikmaa

1866-1942 (aged 76)

painter

Ants Laikmaa was an Estonian painter.

49. Hermann Ottomar Herzog

1832-1932 (aged 100)

painter

Hermann Ottomar Herzog He is associated with the Düsseldorf School and Hudson River School of painting. He almost always signed his work "H. Herzog"; as a result of this and the Americanization of spelling "Herman," his first name is spelled both "Herman" and "Hermann" in various sources. "Hermann," however, is the way he signed his name on documents.

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50. Franz Erhard Walther

1939-. (aged 87)

artist university teacher conceptual artist sculptor video artist

Franz Erhard Walther is an interdisciplinary installation and conceptual artist known for his fabric objects and activations.

51. Oswald Achenbach

1827-1905 (aged 78)

painter university teacher

Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. During his lifetime, he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two...

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52. Lars Hertervig

1830-1902 (aged 72)

painter watercolorist

Lars Hertervig was a Norwegian painter. His semi-fantastical work with motives from the coastal landscape in the traditional district of Ryfylke is regarded as one of the peaks of Norwegian painting.

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53. Bernhard Hoetger

1874-1949 (aged 75)

graphic designer architect draftsperson sculptor graphic artist

Bernhard Hoetger was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement.

54. Hans Dahl

1849-1937 (aged 88)

painter

Hans Dahl was a Norwegian painter. He was best known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.

55. Katharina Fritsch

1956-. (aged 70)

visual artist installation artist sculptor university teacher

Katharina Fritsch is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

56. Rudolf Koller

1828-1905 (aged 77)

painter

Rudolf Koller was a Swiss painter. He is associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with the essentially romantic Düsseldorf school of painting. Koller's style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Considered Switzerland's finest animal painter, Koller is rated alongside George Stubbs, Rosa Bonheur and Théodore Géricault. While his reputation was...

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57. Bruno Schmitz

1858-1916 (aged 58)

university teacher architect

Bruno Schmitz was a German architect best known for his monuments in the early 20th century. He worked closely with sculptors such as Emil Hundrieser, Nikolaus Geiger and Franz Metzner for integrated architectural and sculptural effect.

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58. Peter von Cornelius

1783-1867 (aged 84)

painter illustrator university teacher draftsperson

Peter von Cornelius was a German painter and one of the main representatives of the Nazarene movement. He was the uncle of the composer Peter Cornelius (1824–1874).

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59. Andreas Achenbach

1815-1910 (aged 95)

draftsperson printmaker lithographer painter watercolorist

Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School. His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.

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60. Blinky Palermo

1943-1977 (aged 34)

draftsperson graphic artist sculptor visual artist painter

Blinky Palermo, artistic name of Peter Schwarze, was a German abstract painter. He was inspired by painters like Kazimir Malevich, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.

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61. Elisabeth Baumann

1818-1881 (aged 63)

writer painter biographer autobiographer

Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.

62. Candida Höfer

1944-. (aged 82)

photojournalist university teacher illustrator architectural photographer photographer

Candida Höfer is a German photographer. She is a renowned photographer known for her exploration of public spaces and architecture. In her career she transitioned from portraiture to focusing on spaces like libraries and museums. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual...

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63. Heinz Mack

1931-. (aged 95)

graphic artist light artist painter sculptor printmaker

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 at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art.

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64. Thomas Schütte

1954-. (aged 72)

painter draftsperson artist sculptor visual artist

Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

65. Otto Piene

1928-2014 (aged 86)

sculptor painter draftsperson

Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts.

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66. HA Schult

1939-. (aged 87)

conceptual artist installation artist performance artist artist

Hans-Jürgen Schult, known professionally as HA Schult, is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. He is one of the first artists to deal with the world's ecological imbalance in his work and has therefore been called an "eco-art pioneer". His best known works include...

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67. Emanuel Leutze

1816-1868 (aged 52)

painter architectural draftsperson artist

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German-born American history painter, best known for his 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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68. Thomas Struth

1954-. (aged 72)

visual artist photojournalist artist photographer

Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s, and his family photographs series. Struth lives and works between Berlin and New York.

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69. Thomas Ruff

1958-. (aged 68)

photojournalist university teacher artist visual artist photographer

Thomas Ruff is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".

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70. Ralf König

1960-. (aged 66)

LGBTQ rights activist screenwriter writer

Ralf König is one of the best known and most commercially successful German comic book creators. His books have been translated into many languages. He has resided in Soest, Dortmund and Berlin and now lives in Cologne.

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71. Wilhelm Lehmbruck

1881-1919 (aged 38)

painter illustrator sculptor draftsperson graphic artist

Wilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor. One of the most important of his generation, he was influenced by realism and expressionism.

72. Hans Gude

1825-1903 (aged 78)

painter university teacher

Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting and is best known for landscapes of Norway’s mountains, fjords, and coast.

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73. Andreas Gursky

1955-. (aged 71)

photojournalist teacher university teacher artist photographer

Andreas Gursky is a German artist and a former professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

74. Odd Nerdrum

1944-. (aged 82)

painter

Odd Nerdrum is a Norwegian figurative painter. A controversial figure in Norway, he is known for his anti-modernist stance while he is also admired internationally for his skill and technique, as well as his extraordinary subject matter. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in...

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75. Heinrich Vogeler

1872-1942 (aged 70)

graphic artist architect writer painter designer

Johann Heinrich Vogeler was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

76. Sigmar Polke

1941-2010 (aged 69)

draftsperson printmaker installation artist designer visual artist

Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings...

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77. Günther Uecker

1930-2025 (aged 95)

painter draftsperson university teacher sculptor visual artist

Günther Uecker was a German painter, sculptor, op artist and installation artist. He became known primarily for his nail reliefs. In 1961, Uecker joined the ZERO group.

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78. Wolf Vostell

1932-1998 (aged 66)

illustrator video artist installation artist television producer performance artist

Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wolf Vostell was married to the Spanish writer...

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79. Anselm Feuerbach

1829-1880 (aged 51)

visual artist painter university teacher draftsperson

Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.

80. Yoshitomo Nara

1959-. (aged 67)

illustrator sculptor musician installation artist photographer

Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. His art work has been housed at the MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). His most well-known and repeated subjects are "big-headed girls" with piercing eyes,...

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81. Arnold Böcklin

1827-1901 (aged 74)

university teacher painter designer sculptor draftsperson

Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers.

82. Albert Bierstadt

1830-1902 (aged 72)

scenographer painter architectural draftsperson photographer

Albert Bierstadt was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.

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83. Gerhard Richter

1932-. (aged 94)

painter artist university teacher visual artist illustrator

Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.

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84. Joseph Beuys

1921-1986 (aged 65)

conceptual artist illustrator sculptor choreographer photographer

Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen [de; fr], Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, Beuys created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU). Through his talks and performances, he also formed The Party for Animals and...

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85. Ottmar Hörl

1950-. (aged 76)

sculptor university teacher artist photographer

Ottmar Hörl is a German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography, and object artist. He achieved worldwide popularity due to his radical, avant-garde art concepts as well as large-scale projects featuring serial sculptures in public spaces, based on his distinctive definition of sculpture as an organisational principle. He is considered an "offensive and direct strategist campaigning for a new type...

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86. Isa Genzken

1948-. (aged 78)

collagist installation artist visual artist sculptor photographer

Isa Genzken is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photography, video, film and collage.

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87. Karl Ferdinand Sohn

1805-1867 (aged 62)

painter university teacher

Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

88. Gotthard Graubner

1930-2013 (aged 83)

draftsperson printmaker university teacher environmental artist etcher

Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.

89. Günter Grass

1927-2015 (aged 88)

sculptor photographer printmaker novelist painter

Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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90. Wilhelm Busch

1832-1908 (aged 76)

watercolorist caricaturist draftsperson writer cartoonist

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.

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91. Thomas Theodor Heine

1867-1948 (aged 81)

graphic artist caricaturist writer painter sculptor

Thomas Theodor Heine was a German painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Born in Leipzig, Heine established himself as a gifted caricaturist at an early age, which led to him studying art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, briefly, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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92. Thomas Demand

1964-. (aged 62)

sculptor visual artist photographer

Thomas Cyrill Demand is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. He makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings. Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer,...

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93. Carl Rudolph Sohn

1845-1908 (aged 63)

painter

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.

94. Paul Müller-Kaempff

1861-1941 (aged 80)

painter lithographer draftsperson

Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

95. Peter Behrens

1868-1940 (aged 72)

designer decorative artist jewelry designer exlibrist illustrator

Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also...

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96. Otto Modersohn

1865-1943 (aged 78)

painter

Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.

97. Victor Westerholm

1860-1919 (aged 59)

painter

Victor Axel Westerholm was a Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony.

98. Adolph Tidemand

1814-1876 (aged 62)

painter genre painter history painter

Adolph Tidemand was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne (The Haugeans; 1852) and Brudeferd i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger; 1848), painted in collaboration with Hans Gude.

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99. Mihály Munkácsy

1844-1900 (aged 56)

painter

Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

100. Henry Tayali

1943-1987 (aged 44)

printmaker painter storyteller lecturer sculptor

Henry Nkole Tayali was a multi-lingual Zambian painter, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous painter.

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