100 Notable alumni of
Dusseldorf Art Academy

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Dusseldorf Art Academy is 507th in the world, 186th 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.

  1. Gerhard Richter

    Gerhard Richter
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherphotographervisual artistillustrator
    Biography

    Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also 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.

  2. Joseph Beuys

    Joseph Beuys
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1921-1986 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    performance artistphotographerchoreographersculptorillustrator
    Biography

    Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU). He previously in his talks and performances 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.

  3. Günter Grass

    Günter Grass
    Years
    1927-2015 (aged 88)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    1948-1952 studied sculptor and graphics
    Occupations
    playwrightartistaltar serverillustratoressayist
    Biography

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

  4. Yoshitomo Nara

    Yoshitomo Nara
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    artistarchitectural draftspersoninstallation artistprintmakerillustrator
    Biography

    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."

  5. Wilhelm Busch

    Wilhelm Busch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1832-1908 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    essayistpoetartistillustratorwriter
    Biography

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

  6. Arnold Böcklin

    Arnold Böcklin
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1827-1901 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainterdraweruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. He is best known for his six versions of the Isle of the Dead, which inspired works by several late-Romantic composers.

  7. Peter Behrens

    Peter Behrens
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1868-1940 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1888-1892
    Occupations
    architectillustratorgraphic designertypographeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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 foundation 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.

  8. Albert Bierstadt

    Albert Bierstadt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1830-1902 (aged 72)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1853-1857
    Occupations
    architectural draftspersonpainterscenographerphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  9. Andreas Gursky

    Andreas Gursky
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    teacherphotojournalistphotographerartistuniversity teacher
    Biography

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

  10. Mihály Munkácsy

    Mihály Munkácsy
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1844-1900 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  11. Odd Nerdrum

    Odd Nerdrum
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Odd Nerdrum is a Norwegian figurative painter, born in Sweden. His work is held by museums worldwide. 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 the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of Norway. Nerdrum creates six to eight paintings a year. They include still life paintings of small, everyday objects (like bricks), 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.

  12. Heinrich Vogeler

    Heinrich Vogeler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1872-1942 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    painterwriterarchitectgraphic artistillustrator
    Biography

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

  13. Jörg Immendorff

    Jörg Immendorff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1945-2007 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    university teacherdrawerlithographerpaintergraphic artist
    Biography

    Jörg Immendorff was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde.

  14. Sigmar Polke

    Sigmar Polke
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1941-2010 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    paintersculptorgraphic artistdrawerphotographer
    Biography

    Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.

  15. Wolf Vostell

    Wolf Vostell
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1932-1998 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    paintersculptortelevision producerphotographerillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  16. Otto Modersohn

    Otto Modersohn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1865-1943 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1884-1888
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  17. Anselm Feuerbach

    Anselm Feuerbach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1829-1880 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    paintervisual artistdraweruniversity teacher
    Biography

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

  18. Isa Genzken

    Isa Genzken
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    installation artistcollagistdrawerpaintervideo artist
    Biography

    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.

  19. Günther Uecker

    Günther Uecker
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    university teacherdrawerpainterillustratorvisual artist
    Biography

    Günther Uecker is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.

  20. Emanuel Leutze

    Emanuel Leutze
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1816-1868 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    painterartistarchitectural draftsperson
    Biography

    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.

  21. Thomas Ruff

    Thomas Ruff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1977-1985
    Occupations
    university teacherphotojournalistphotographer
    Biography

    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".

  22. Thomas Struth

    Thomas Struth
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    photojournalistphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  23. Ralf König

    Ralf König
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    LGBTQI+ rights activistwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    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.

  24. Wilhelm Lehmbruck

    Wilhelm Lehmbruck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1881-1919 (aged 38)
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artistdrawersculptorillustrator
    Biography

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

  25. Hans Gude

    Hans Gude
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1825-1903 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1841
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    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.

  26. HA Schult

    HA Schult
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    installation artistconceptual artistartistperformance artist
    Biography

    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.

  27. Andreas Achenbach

    Andreas Achenbach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1815-1910 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    painterdrawerillustratorprintmaker
    Biography

    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.

  28. Blinky Palermo

    Blinky Palermo
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1943-1977 (aged 34)
    Occupations
    drawerpaintergraphic artistillustratorvisual artist
    Biography

    Blinky Palermo was a German abstract painter.

  29. Peter von Cornelius

    Peter von Cornelius
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1783-1867 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    painterdraweruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

    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).

  30. Thomas Demand

    Thomas Demand
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    sculptorphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  31. Adolph Tidemand

    Adolph Tidemand
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1814-1876 (aged 62)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1837-1841
    Occupations
    genre painterpainterhistory painter
    Biography

    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.

  32. Candida Höfer

    Candida Höfer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    university teacherphotojournalistphotographerarchitectural photographerillustrator
    Biography

    Candida Höfer is a German photographer. 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. From 1997 to 2000, she taught as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Höfer is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award, as part of the Sony World Photography awards. She is based in Cologne.

  33. Heinz Mack

    Heinz Mack
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1931-.. (age 93)
    Occupations
    sculptorkinetic artistgraphic artistprintmakerphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  34. Otto Piene

    Otto Piene
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1928-2014 (aged 86)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1950-1953
    Occupations
    paintersculptordrawer
    Biography

    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.

  35. Elisabeth Baumann

    Elisabeth Baumann
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1818-1881 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    painterwriterautobiographerbiographer
    Biography

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

  36. Oswald Achenbach

    Oswald Achenbach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1827-1905 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    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).

  37. Thomas Schütte

    Thomas Schütte
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    painterphotographerdrawerartistsculptor
    Biography

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

  38. Thomas Theodor Heine

    Thomas Theodor Heine
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1867-1948 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    painterwritercaricaturistgraphic artistgraphic designer
    Biography

    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.

  39. Bernhard Hoetger

    Bernhard Hoetger
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1874-1949 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    paintersculptorarchitect
    Biography

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

  40. Lars Hertervig

    Lars Hertervig
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1830-1902 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  41. Rudolf Koller

    Rudolf Koller
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1828-1905 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  42. Hans Dahl

    Hans Dahl
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1849-1937 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  43. Anatol Herzfeld

    Anatol Herzfeld
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1931-2019 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    sculptorperformance artist
    Biography

    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.

  44. Bruno Schmitz

    Bruno Schmitz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1858-1916 (aged 58)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1874-1878
    Occupations
    architectuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  45. Franz Erhard Walther

    Franz Erhard Walther
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    visual artistuniversity teachersculptordrawerconceptual artist
    Biography

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

  46. Julius Kronberg

    Julius Kronberg
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1850-1921 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

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

  47. Gotthard Graubner

    Gotthard Graubner
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1930-2013 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherprintmaker
    Biography

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

  48. Konrad Klapheck

    Konrad Klapheck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1935-2023 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    printmakerscreenwriterarchitectural draftspersonpaintergraphic artist
    Biography

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

  49. Ottmar Hörl

    Ottmar Hörl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    sculptoruniversity teacherartist
    Biography

    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.

  50. Arthur Kampf

    Arthur Kampf
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1864-1950 (aged 86)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1879
    Occupations
    painterteacheruniversity teachervisual artistdrawer
    Biography

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

  51. Eugene von Guerard

    Eugene von Guerard
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1811-1901 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  52. Katharina Sieverding

    Katharina Sieverding
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    university teacherphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  53. Ants Laikmaa

    Ants Laikmaa
    Born in
    Estonia Flag Estonia
    Years
    1866-1942 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Ants Laikmaa was an Estonian painter.

  54. Hermann Ottomar Herzog

    Hermann Ottomar Herzog
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1832-1932 (aged 100)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American artist, primarily known for his landscapes. 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.

  55. Ludwig Knaus

    Ludwig Knaus
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1829-1910 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1845-1848
    Occupations
    etcherpainter
    Biography

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

  56. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

    Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1807-1863 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainteruniversity teacherteacher
    Biography

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

  57. Adelsteen Normann

    Adelsteen Normann
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1848-1918 (aged 70)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1869
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  58. William Holbrook Beard

    William Holbrook Beard
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1825-1900 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  59. Richard Caton Woodville, Sr

    Richard Caton Woodville, Sr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1825-1855 (aged 30)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  60. Lothar Baumgarten

    Lothar Baumgarten
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1944-2018 (aged 74)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1969-1971
    Occupations
    lighting designerinstallation artistprintmakerconceptual artistpainter
    Biography

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

  61. Gunnar Berg

    Gunnar Berg
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1863-1893 (aged 30)
    Occupations
    painterphotographer
    Biography

    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.

  62. Georg Meistermann

    Georg Meistermann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1911-1990 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teachergraphic artist
    Biography

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

  63. Karl Ferdinand Sohn

    Karl Ferdinand Sohn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1805-1867 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

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

  64. Pavel Svedomsky

    Pavel Svedomsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1849-1904 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  65. Barthélémy Toguo

    Barthélémy Toguo
    Born in
    Cameroon Flag Cameroon
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    printmakerpainterjewelry designerphotographervisual artist
    Biography

    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.

  66. Benjamin Vautier

    Benjamin Vautier
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1829-1898 (aged 69)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1850
    Occupations
    genre painterpainteruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

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

  67. Victor Westerholm

    Victor Westerholm
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1860-1919 (aged 59)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  68. Hermann Knackfuss

    Hermann Knackfuss
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1848-1915 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    painterwriteruniversity teacherart historian
    Biography

    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.

  69. Herbert Zangs

    Herbert Zangs
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1924-2003 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    painterinstallation artistperformance artist
    Biography

    Herbert Zangs was a German artist.

  70. Gustav Graef

    Gustav Graef
    Years
    1821-1895 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  71. Anders Askevold

    Anders Askevold
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1834-1900 (aged 66)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1856
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  72. Fritz von Wille

    Fritz von Wille
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1860-1941 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1879-1882
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  73. Henry Tayali

    Henry Tayali
    Born in
    Zambia Flag Zambia
    Years
    1943-1987 (aged 44)
    Occupations
    storytellerpainterprintmakersculptorlecturer
    Biography

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

  74. Paul Müller-Kaempff

    Paul Müller-Kaempff
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1861-1941 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    lithographerpainter
    Biography

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

  75. August Cappelen

    August Cappelen
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1827-1852 (aged 25)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  76. Johann Georg Meyer

    Johann Georg Meyer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1813-1886 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

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

  77. Theodor Hosemann

    Theodor Hosemann
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1807-1875 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    graphic artistcaricaturistteacherdrawergraphic designer
    Biography

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

  78. Friedrich Georg Weitsch

    Friedrich Georg Weitsch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1758-1828 (aged 70)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1783
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Friedrich Georg Weitsch was a German painter and etcher.

  79. Karl Hübner

    Karl Hübner
    Years
    1814-1879 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  80. Jakob Becker

    Jakob Becker
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1810-1872 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherlithographer
    Biography

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

  81. Adolf Schrödter

    Adolf Schrödter
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1805-1875 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  82. Adolf von Becker

    Adolf von Becker
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1831-1909 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  83. Carl Rudolph Sohn

    Carl Rudolph Sohn
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1845-1908 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  84. Hugo Vogel

    Hugo Vogel
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1855-1934 (aged 79)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1874-1880
    Occupations
    portrait painterpainteruniversity teacherfresco painter
    Biography

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

  85. Thomas Huber

    Thomas Huber
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    conceptual artistpainterperformance artistprintmakerinstallation artist
    Biography

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

  86. Johann Wilhelm Preyer

    Johann Wilhelm Preyer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1803-1889 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  87. Ulrike Rosenbach

    Ulrike Rosenbach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    university teacherperformance artistvideographerpaintervideo artist
    Biography

    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.

  88. Hilla Becher

    Hilla Becher
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1934-2015 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    architectural photographerphotographerconceptual artist
    Biography

    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.

  89. Morten Müller

    Morten Müller
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1828-1911 (aged 83)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1847
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artist
    Biography

    Morten Müller was a Norwegian landscape painter.

  90. George Henry Hall

    George Henry Hall
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1825-1913 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  91. Franz Ittenbach

    Franz Ittenbach
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1813-1879 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  92. August Becker

    August Becker
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1822-1887 (aged 65)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1840
    Occupations
    drawerpainter
    Biography

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

  93. August Wilhelm Leu

    August Wilhelm Leu
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1818-1897 (aged 79)
    Enrolled in Dusseldorf Art Academy
    Studied in 1840-1844
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  94. Bengt Nordenberg

    Bengt Nordenberg
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1822-1902 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  95. Walter Ophey

    Walter Ophey
    Born in
    Belgium Flag Belgium
    Years
    1882-1930 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  96. Theobald von Oer

    Theobald von Oer
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1807-1885 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    painterillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  97. Hermann Anschütz

    Hermann Anschütz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1802-1880 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    French teacherpainteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  98. Karl Ferdinand Wimar

    Karl Ferdinand Wimar
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1828-1862 (aged 34)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

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

  99. Berndt Lindholm

    Berndt Lindholm
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1841-1914 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    painterdrawing teacher
    Biography

    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.

  100. Ludvig Munthe

    Ludvig Munthe
    Born in
    Norway Flag Norway
    Years
    1841-1896 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    landscape painter
    Biography

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