100 Notable alumni of
Dusseldorf Art Academy
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Dusseldorf Art Academy is 516th in the world, 189th in Europe, and 27th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Dusseldorf Art Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gerhard Richter
- Occupations
- photographerpainterartistuniversity teachervisual artist
- Biography
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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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Günter Grass
- Years
- 1927-2015 (aged 88)
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- 1948-1952 studied graphics and sculptor
- Occupations
- novelistautobiographerlyricistgraphic artistphotographer
- Biography
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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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Joseph Beuys
- Occupations
- draftspersonprintmakeruniversity teacherconceptual artistillustrator
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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 The Organisation for Direct Democracy. He was a member of a Dadaist art movement Fluxus and singularly inspirational in developing of Performance Art, called Kunst Aktionen, alongside Wiener Aktionismus that Allan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann termed Art Happenings. Today, internationally, the largest performance art group is BBeyond in Belfast, led by Alastair MacLennan who knew Beuys and like many adapts Beuys's ethos.
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Yoshitomo Nara
- Occupations
- photographermusiciansculptorpainterinstallation artist
- Biography
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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, who one Nara scholar describes as having "childlike expressions resonate with adult emotions, embodiment of kawaii (cuteness) carries a dark humor, and any explicit cultural references are intertwined with personal memories."
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Wilhelm Busch
- Occupations
- children's writerdraftspersonautobiographerwriterillustrator
- Biography
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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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Arnold Böcklin
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- draftspersonuniversity teacherpainterdesignersculptor
- Biography
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Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late-Romantic composers.
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Peter Behrens
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1888-1892
- Occupations
- furniture designerpaintergraphic designerindustrial designeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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 began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
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Albert Bierstadt
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1853-1857
- Occupations
- photographerscenographerpainterarchitectural draftsperson
- Biography
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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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Andreas Gursky
- Occupations
- university teacherartistphotographerphotojournalistteacher
- Biography
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Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Mihály Munkácsy
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
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Odd Nerdrum
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- painter
- Biography
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Odd Nerdrum is a Norwegian figurative painter. A controversial figure in Norway, he is known for his anti-modernist stance. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with abstraction and conceptual art. They include still life paintings of small, everyday objects, portraits and self-portraits, and large paintings allegorical and apocalyptic in nature. The figures in Nerdrum's paintings are often dressed as if from another time and place. His work has largely been met with negative criticism from Norwegian art critics. Art critic Stig Andersen described Nerdrum as the leader of an "authoritarian personality cult" and his audience as an "uneducated, narrow-minded bourgeoisie," representing "the triumph of popular culture over art."
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Jörg Immendorff
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- graphic artistpainterlithographerdraftspersonuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jörg Immendorff was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde.
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Heinrich Vogeler
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterteacherillustratorprintmaker
- Biography
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Johann Heinrich Vogeler was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Sigmar Polke
- Occupations
- photographergraphic artistsculptorpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.
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Wolf Vostell
- Occupations
- television producervisual artistillustratorsculptorinstallation artist
- Biography
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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 Mercedes Vostell and has two sons, David Vostell and Rafael Vostell.
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Anselm Feuerbach
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- university teacherdraftspersonvisual artistpainter
- Biography
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Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.
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Otto Modersohn
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1884-1888
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.
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Isa Genzken
- Occupations
- photographerfilmmakervideo artistpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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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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Günther Uecker
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- painterdraftspersonuniversity teachersculptorvisual artist
- Biography
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Günther Uecker is a German painter, sculptor, op artist, and installation artist.
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Emanuel Leutze
- Occupations
- artistpainterarchitectural draftsperson
- Biography
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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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Thomas Struth
- Occupations
- photographervisual artistphotojournalistartist
- Biography
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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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Thomas Ruff
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1977-1985
- Occupations
- artistvisual artistphotographerphotojournalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Ralf König
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- writerLGBTQ rights activistscreenwriter
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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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Wilhelm Lehmbruck
- Occupations
- draftspersongraphic artistpainterillustratorsculptor
- Biography
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor. One of the most important of his generation, he was influenced by realism and expressionism.
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Hans Gude
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1841
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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.
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HA Schult
- Occupations
- conceptual artistinstallation artistperformance artistartist
- Biography
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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 the touring work, Trash People, which exhibited on all continents, and the Save The Beach hotel, a building made of garbage.
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Andreas Achenbach
- Occupations
- draftspersonpainterprintmakerillustrator
- Biography
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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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Peter von Cornelius
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- draftspersonvisual artistuniversity teacherpainterillustrator
- Biography
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Peter von Cornelius was a German painter; one of the main representatives of the Nazarene movement. He was the uncle of the composer Peter Cornelius (1824–1874).
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Blinky Palermo
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- artistdraftspersongraphic artistsculptorvisual artist
- Biography
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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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Candida Höfer
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- architectural photographerphotographerphotojournalistuniversity teacherillustrator
- Biography
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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 approach. Her work explores the ways in which institutional architecture shapes and directs human experience. Höfer's technical approach is reflective of her goals as an artist.
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Thomas Demand
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- photographersculptor
- Biography
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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, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process.
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Adolph Tidemand
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1837-1841
- Occupations
- history painterpaintergenre painter
- Biography
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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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Otto Piene
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1950-1953
- Occupations
- sculptorpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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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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Elisabeth Baumann
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- biographerautobiographerwriterpainter
- Biography
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Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.
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Heinz Mack
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- draftspersonphotographerprintmakergraphic artistkinetic artist
- Biography
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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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Thomas Schütte
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- photographerpainterdraftspersonartistsculptor
- Biography
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Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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Oswald Achenbach
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- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, 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 brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
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Lars Hertervig
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- painter
- Biography
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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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Bernhard Hoetger
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerarchitectdraftsperson
- Biography
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Bernhard Hoetger was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement.
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Thomas Theodor Heine
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- graphic designergraphic artistcaricaturistwriterpainter
- Biography
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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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Hans Dahl
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- painter
- Biography
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Hans Dahl was a Norwegian painter. He was best known for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.
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Rudolf Koller
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- painter
- Biography
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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 based on his paintings of animals, he was a sensitive and innovative artist whose well-composed works in the "plein air" tradition, including Swiss mountain landscapes, are just as finely executed.
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Katharina Fritsch
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- university teachervisual artistinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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Katharina Fritsch is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Anatol Herzfeld
- Occupations
- performance artistsculptor
- Biography
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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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Bruno Schmitz
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1874-1878
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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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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Franz Erhard Walther
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- video artistartistconceptual artistdraftspersonsculptor
- Biography
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Franz Erhard Walther is an interdisciplinary installation and conceptual artist known for his fabric objects and activations.
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Julius Kronberg
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- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg was a Swedish artist and decorative painter.
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Arthur Kampf
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1879
- Occupations
- draftspersonvisual artistuniversity teacherteacherpainter
- Biography
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Arthur Kampf was a German painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Ottmar Hörl
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- artistuniversity teachersculptor
- Biography
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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 of public art" and the most successful artist creating multiples, an artist implementing his vision of art for everyone and promoting the democratisation of sculpture like no other so far. His important contributions in the field of fine arts have earned him several awards, the latest of which, the CREO Innovation Award, was granted by the German Society for Creativity (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kreativität e. V.) and presented to Hörl at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 2015. Since 1999, Hörl has held a chair as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, and has been the Academy's president since 2005. Moreover, he is a founding member of the group Formalhaut. Ottmar Hörl lives and works in Wertheim, Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg.
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Gotthard Graubner
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- printmakeruniversity teacherpainter
- Biography
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Gotthard Graubner was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany.
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Konrad Klapheck
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- graphic artistpainterarchitectural draftspersonscreenwriterprintmaker
- Biography
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Konrad Klapheck was a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combined features of Surrealism and Neorealism.
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Eugene von Guerard
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- painter
- Biography
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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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Katharina Sieverding
- Occupations
- photographeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Ants Laikmaa
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- painter
- Biography
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Ants Laikmaa was an Estonian painter.
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Hermann Ottomar Herzog
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- painter
- Biography
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Hermann Ottomar Herzog (November 16, 1832 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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Ludwig Knaus
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1845-1848
- Occupations
- painteretcher
- Biography
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Ludwig Knaus was a German genre painter of the younger 7 Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
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- university teacherpaintergraphic artistteacher
- Biography
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Johann Wilhelm Schirmer was a German landscape artist born in Jülich, within the Prussian Duchy of Jülich.
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Adelsteen Normann
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1869
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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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William Holbrook Beard
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- painter
- Biography
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William Holbrook Beard was an American artistic painter who is known best for his satirical paintings of beasts performing human-like activities.
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Richard Caton Woodville, Sr
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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 fewer than 20 paintings; but they were well known in their time through exhibition and prints and have remained prominent in the canon of American painters.
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Gunnar Berg
- Occupations
- photographerpainter
- Biography
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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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Lothar Baumgarten
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1969-1971
- Occupations
- photographersculptorpainterconceptual artistinstallation artist
- Biography
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Lothar Baumgarten was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Berlin. His work includes installation and also film.
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Georg Meistermann
- Occupations
- graphic artistuniversity teacherpainter
- Biography
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Georg Meistermann was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe.
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Benjamin Vautier
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1850
- Occupations
- university teacherpaintergenre painterillustrator
- Biography
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Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier was a Swiss genre painter and illustrator.
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Karl Ferdinand Sohn
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Pavel Svedomsky
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Svedomsky was a Russian painter and the brother of another artist, Alexander Svedomsky.
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Barthélémy Toguo
- Occupations
- photographerjewelry designerpainterprintmakersculptor
- Biography
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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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Victor Westerholm
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Victor Axel Westerholm was a Finnish landscape painter, especially known for founding the Önningeby artists' colony.
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Hermann Knackfuß
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpainterart historian
- Biography
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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 end of the nineteenth century.
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Herbert Zangs
- Occupations
- performance artistinstallation artistpainter
- Biography
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Herbert Zangs was a German artist.
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Anders Askevold
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1856
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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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Gustav Graef
- Years
- 1821-1895 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Gustav Graef was a German painter, primarily of portraits and historical subjects.
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Fritz von Wille
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1879-1882
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterlithographerdraftspersonlandscape painter
- Biography
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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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Theodor Hosemann
- Occupations
- graphic designerdraftspersonteachercaricaturistgraphic artist
- Biography
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor Hosemann was a German genre painter, draftsman, illustrator and caricaturist.
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Henry Tayali
- Occupations
- printmakerpainterstorytellerlecturersculptor
- Biography
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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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Paul Müller-Kaempff
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- painterlithographerdraftsperson
- Biography
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Paul Müller-Kaempff was a German painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Adolf von Becker
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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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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Johann Georg Meyer
- Occupations
- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, commonly known as Meyer von Bremen, was a German painter who specialized in Biblical, peasant, and family scenes.
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August Cappelen
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Hermann August Cappelen was a Norwegian painter. Cappelen was best known for his melancholic, dramatic and romantic landscape compositions.
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Friedrich Georg Weitsch
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1783
- Occupations
- history painterpainterportrait painter
- Biography
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Friedrich Georg Weitsch was a German painter and etcher.
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Adolf Schrödter
- Occupations
- university teacherpainterillustrator
- Biography
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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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Karl Hübner
- Years
- 1814-1879 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Karl Wilhelm Hübner was a German landscape and genre painter, in the Romantic style.
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Hugo Vogel
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1874-1880
- Occupations
- university teacherpainterportrait painterfresco painter
- Biography
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Hugo Vogel was a German painter, known primarily for historical scenes and portraits.
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Jakob Becker
- Occupations
- university teacherpainterlithographer
- Biography
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Jakob Becker was a German artist noted mainly for his genre paintings of peasants.
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Carl Rudolph Sohn
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.
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Thomas Huber
- Occupations
- installation artistprintmakerperformance artistpainterconceptual artist
- Biography
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Thomas Huber is a Swiss artist who lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf for several years and is currently resident in Berlin.
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Ulrike Rosenbach
- Occupations
- television producervisual artistuniversity teachersculptornew media artist
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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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Johann Wilhelm Preyer
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- painter
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Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a German still life painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
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Hilla Becher
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- photographerarchitectural photographerconceptual artist
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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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George Henry Hall
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- painter
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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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Morten Müller
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1847
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- graphic artistpainter
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Morten Müller was a Norwegian landscape painter.
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Franz Ittenbach
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- painter
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Franz Ittenbach was a German religious painter, in the Nazarene style, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
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Bengt Nordenberg
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- painter
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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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August Wilhelm Leu
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1840-1844
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- painter
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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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Berndt Lindholm
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- drawing teacherpainter
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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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August Becker
- Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
- Studied in 1840
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- painterdraftsperson
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August Becker was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
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Theobald von Oer
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- illustratorpainter
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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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Hermann Anschütz
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- university teacherpainterFrench teacher
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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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Walter Ophey
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- painter
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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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Ludvig Munthe
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- landscape painterpainter
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Ludvig Munthe was a Norwegian-born, German landscape painter.
