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Born February 18, 1889 • Berlin • Germany
Died November 13, 1981 (aged 92) • Cologne • Germany
Movement / Style Expressionism • Novembergruppe

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Marianne Brandt
German painter, photographer and designer
Erfurth, Hugo: Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
German artist
Heckel, Erich: Portrait of a Man
Erich Heckel
German artist
Self-portrait, oil painting by Otto Müller, 1922; in the Klaus Gebhard Collection, Munich
Otto Müller
German painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
Anni Albers
German-born textile designer
Georg Baselitz: Armalamor
Georg Baselitz
German artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
Harlequin, Meissen hard-paste porcelain figure from the commedia dell'arte modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, c. 1738; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Johann Joachim Kändler
German sculptor
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist
Max Beckmann
German painter
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist