German painter and printmaker. Goldschmidt knew the painter Marianne Werefkin and her partner Alexei Jawlensky, and also the writers Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann. Training initially in book design, her admiration for Der Blaue Reiter prompted…

Walter Gramatté was born in 1897 in Berlin and died in 1929 in Hamburg. Gramatté had a very short (15 years) career but a very productive one – paintings, drawings and prints with subjects of figures, portraits, still life’s, landscapes and book…

Erich Heckel (1883-1970) was born in Dobeln, Germany. He and Schmidt-Rottluff studied architecture in Dresden but after founding the “Brücke” group, both left the University in 1905. In 1910, Heckel met the dancer Sidi Riha, who posed for some of…

Ludwig von Hofmann was born on August 17, 1861 in Darmstadt, Germany, and died on August 23, 1945 in Pillnitz, Germany. Ludwig von Hoffmann was one of the founder members in 1899 of the Berlin Secession. He developed a heightened Romantic, poetic…

Friedrich Meckseper was born in June 8, 1936 in Bremen, German. He is a German painter, designer, drawer, and draftsman. He first studied mechanical engineering, but later turned to art, training in Berlin. His work often features objects concerned…

Felix Meseck was born 11 June 1883 in Danzig, Germany, and died 17 June 1955 in Holzminden, Germany. He studied at the Fine Art Academies in Berlin and Königsberg, studying painting under Ludwig Dettmann and printmaking with Heinrich Wolff. In 1926…

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was born as Emil Hansen in Nolde, a town in the North of Germany. He was initially trained as a woodcarver but started to paint as an independent artist in 1898. Before he settled in 1903 in Alsen during the summer and in…

Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was born in Nierendorf and studied first in Berlin and then in Weimar where he met Liebermann in 1874. In 1901, he left Weimar and, following an invitation by the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus, went to Hagen where he…

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was born in Rottluff and studied architecture in Dresden with Erich Heckel before they formed, with Bleyl and Kirchner, “die Brücke” in 1905. The group were influenced by the works of Nietzsche and Schmidt-Rottluff…

Johannes Walter-Kurau was born in 1869 in Mitau, Latvia, and died in 1932 in Berlin.  He studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersurg and returning to Latvia, painted intensively and opened his own studio. He was born Janis Valters…