20th-century German women artists

The list 20th-century German women artists includes Leni Riefenstahl, Gerda Taro, Clara Westhoff, Hannah Hoch and Eva Janina Wieczorek. The list consists of 332 members and 2 sublists.

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20th-century German women photographers
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20th-century German women painters
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Leni Riefenstahl

German film director (1902–2003)

Overview: Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl ( 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer, and actress, known for her seminal role in producing Nazi propaganda.

Date of birth: 22 August 1902

Date of death: 8 September 2003

Age: 101 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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German propagandists 8T

Photographers from Berlin 85T

20th-century memoirists 804T
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Gerda Taro

German photographer

Overview: Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojo ...

Date of birth: 1 August 1911

Date of death: 26 July 1937

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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Spanish Civil War photographers 5T

20th-century women photographers 594T

20th-century German photographers 72T
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Eva Janina Wieczorek

Polish-german artist

Overview: Eva Janina Wieczorek (born May 23, 1951) in Katowice in Poland. She is a visual artist. She lives and works in Brühl, Germany.

Date of birth: 23 May 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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21st-century German women artists 90T

21st-century women artists 2,023T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Clara Westhoff

German sculptor

Overview: Clara Westhoff (21 September 1878 in Bremen – 9 March 1954 in Fischerhude), also known as Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a German sculptor and the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Date of birth: 21 September 1878

Date of death: 9 March 1954

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Académie Colarossi alumni 261T

Rainer Maria Rilke 7T

20th-century German sculptors 262T
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Hannah Hoch

German artist

Overview: Hannah Höch (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage ...

Date of birth: 1 November 1889

Date of death: 31 May 1978

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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Women collage artists 41T

20th-century women photographers 594T

20th-century photographers 153T
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Anna Kerstin Otto

German artist

Overview: Anna Kerstin Otto (born 1972 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German painter.

Date of birth: 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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Artists from Frankfurt 52T

21st-century German women artists 90T

21st-century women artists 2,023T
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Paula Modersohn-Becker

German artist

Overview: Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. Her brief career was cut short when she died from ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1876

Date of death: 21 November 1907

Age: 31 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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Artists from Dresden 71T

19th-century German women artists 93T

Paula Modersohn-Becker 3T
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Gabriele Munter

Painter

Overview: Gabriele Münter (Berlin, 19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the ...

Date of birth: 19 February 1877

Date of death: 19 May 1962

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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19th-century German women artists 93T

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20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Heide Hatry

German artist

Overview: Heide Hatry (born 1965) is a New York City and Berlin based German neo-conceptual artist, curator and editor. Her work, often either body-related or employing animal flesh and organs (cf: bio-art), has ...

Date of birth: 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

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21st-century German women artists 90T

21st-century women artists 2,023T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Emma Andijewska

Ukrainian artist and writer (born 1931)

Overview: Emma Andijewska (or Emma Andiievska, Ukrainian: Емма Андієвська) (born March 19, 1931 in Stalino) is a modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter. Her works are marked with surrealist style. Some of An ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1931

Age: 93

Nationality: Ukrainian

Occupation: Radio Personality

Gender: Female

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21st-century Ukrainian women artists 22T

Ukrainian-language writers 5T

20th-century Ukrainian women artists 19T
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Lotte Herrlich

Photographer

Overview: Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956) was a German photographer. She is regarded as the most important female photographer of the German naturism. This mainly was during the 1920s, in which the Freikorperkultur (Free ...

Date of birth: 1883

Date of death: 1956

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Photographer

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Photographers from Hamburg 22T

20th-century women photographers 594T

German women photographers 108T
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

German poet

Overview: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven) (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several ...

Date of birth: 12 July 1874

Date of death: 15 December 1927

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Model

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20th-century women artists 4,649T

LGBT artists from Germany 31T

People from Świnoujście 19T
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Maria Innocentia Hummel

Franciscan Sister and artist

Overview: Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, O.S.F., (21 May 1909 - 6 November 1946) was a famous German Franciscan Sister and artist. She is noted for the artwork which became the popular Hummel figurines.

Date of birth: 21 May 1909

Date of death: 6 November 1946

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Nuns and art 17T

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 669T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler

German artist

Overview: Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (born Anna Frieda Wächtler; 4 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1899

Date of death: 31 July 1940

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

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Artists from Dresden 71T

20th-century German painters 1,002T

German women painters 225T
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Käthe Kollwitz

German artist

Overview: Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945), was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles ...

Date of birth: 8 July 1867

Date of death: 22 April 1945

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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19th-century German women artists 93T

Käthe Kollwitz 5T

German women sculptors 40T
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Rosemarie Trockel

German printmaker

Overview: Rosemarie Trockel (born November 13, 1952) is a German conceptual artist. She works in drawing, painting, sculpture, video, installation, and mixed media. In 1985, she began making paintings using kni ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Artist

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21st-century German women artists 90T

Honorary Members of the Royal Academy 89T

Women conceptual artists 160T
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Candida Hofer

German photographer

Overview: Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students – Axel Hütte, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth – Höfer's ...

Date of birth: 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: German

Occupation: Photographer

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Photographers from Cologne 11T

21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T
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Anni Albers

German-American artist and printmaker

Overview: Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German-born American textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and ...

Date of birth: 12 June 1899

Date of death: 9 May 1994

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century textile artists 58T

German weavers 6T

German textile artists 13T
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Charlotte Salomon

German painter

Overview: Charlotte Salomon (April 16, 1917 – October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1917

Date of death: 10 October 1943

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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Gurs internment camp survivors 35T

German Jewish people who died in the Holocaust 106T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Thyra Schmidt

German artist

Overview: Thyra Schmidt (1974) is a German visual artist.

Date of birth: 1880

Date of death: 1959

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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Photographers from North Rhine-Westphalia 58T

21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T