Category Archives: German artists

Portrait of a Man and His Wife by Ulrich Apt the Elder

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

My featured artist today is probably unknown to most of you as he was to me.  He is the late Gothic painter Ulrich Apt the Elder, who was born in Augsburg around 1460.  The work I am featuring today fascinated … Continue reading →

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Self Portrait on her Sixth Wedding Anniversary by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

My blog today concludes my look at the life of the German Expressionist painter, Paula Becker, later to become Paula Modersohn-Becker.   For her early life you should first read my last blog. As I told you in that last blog, … Continue reading →

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Old Peasant Woman Praying by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

In My Daily Art Display of July 28th 2012, I looked at the life and works of the German Expressionist painter, Gabriele Münter and in my next two blogs I want to showcase the life and feature a couple of … Continue reading →

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The Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basle,1273 by Franz Pforr

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

In my last blog I looked at a painting by Johann Friedrich Overbeck entitled The Painter Franz Pforr, which was a friendship portrait he did of his good friend and fellow Nazarene, Franz Pforr.  Today I am switching my attention … Continue reading →

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Der Maler Pforr (The Painter Franz Pforr) by Johann Friedrich Overbeck.

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

On a number of occasions whilst talking about the life of a nineteenth century  artist I have recounted how they had been in Rome to further their artistic careers and had come across a group of German artists known as … Continue reading →

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Self-Portait as a Soldier by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

In my last blog I looked at the early life of the German Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.  I left off the biography at the time he decided to leave Dresden and move to Berlin.  He was still a member … Continue reading →

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Bathers at Moritzburg by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

My last three blogs looked at Italian Renaissance paintings but today, and in my next blog, I want to move in a completely different artistic direction and look at the life and work of a man who is widely acknowledged … Continue reading →

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The Family Portraits of Franz von Lenbach

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

My recent blogs have in some ways been connected.  I will be in the middle of researching one artist when I come across another, who I feel I just cannot ignore and so my next featured artist has already been … Continue reading →

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Die Sünde by Franz von Stuck

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

Today I am want to look at the life and times of one of Wassily Kandinsky’s early art tutors, the German painter of mythological and allegorical scenes, Franz von Stuck.  Stuck was not just simply a painter.  He was a … Continue reading →

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The Blue Mountain by Gabriele Münter

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

A couple of blogs ago I looked at the life of Frida Kahlo and, in the course of following her life story, talked about her husband the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.  Although Frida was an artist in her own right, … Continue reading →

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