Curated category
German male painters
- Max ErnstMax Ernst was born in the town of Brühl, south of Cologne, on the 2nd of April 1891. He grew up as the third child among nine siblings in a middle-class…
- Albrecht AdamAlbrecht Adam was born on the 16th of April 1786 in Nördlingen, a small free state in southern Germany. His family lived there until Bavaria occupied the…
- Caspar David FriedrichOn the 5th of September 1774, a boy named Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald on the Baltic coast. He grew up as the sixth child among ten siblings…
- Franz MarcFranz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was born on the 8th of February 1880 in Munich. His father Wilhelm Marc worked as a professional landscape painter while his mother…
- Hermann HesseHermann Karl Hesse was born on the 2nd of July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw. His grandparents had served as missionaries in India under the Basel…
- Klaus VoormannKlaus Otto Wilhelm Voormann was born on the 29th of April 1938 in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in the suburbs of north Berlin as one of six brothers.
- Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was born on the 21st of May 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany. His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, had moved from Hungary to become a successful…
- Hans Holbein the YoungerThe winter of 1497 brought Hans Holbein into the free imperial city of Augsburg. His father, Hans Holbein the Elder, ran a large and busy workshop there.
- Friedrich Wilhelm HeineFriedrich Wilhelm Heine was born on the 25th of March 1845 in Leipzig, Germany. At the age of fourteen, he began an apprenticeship in copper and steel…