Reich Albert

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Born in Neumarkt 1889, died in Munich 1942, Albert Reich was well known German war painter and illustrator. During the war, he was in the German Alpine Corps. He was also illustrator for the German children magazine: “Kriegsblatter fur die deutsche Jugend“ (War magazine for German Youth), magazine that was publishing patriotic stories for children. […]

Prött Paul

Paul Prött 1880-1945 list of his Macedonian etchings 1926 auction catalogue

Little known German painter, born in Hagen in 1880, studied in Munich and worked as a painter and graphic artist in Cologne from 1912. He mainly painted city and landscape views. His wife died before the First World War and he probably moved to Berlin with his stepdaughter in the 1920s. His daughter emigrated to […]

Pankok Otto

Otto-Pankok-1893-1966-Self-portrait-in-Ohrid-1954-woodcut

Born in in Mülheim on the Ruhr on 6.6.1892 died in Wesel on 10.10.1966. In 1912 he began his formal training as an artist at the Art Academies in Düsseldorf and Weimar. After only a few months he left the Weimar Academy, where his teachers were Fritz Mackensen and Albin Egger-Lienz and went on a […]

Oehme Albrecht

Albrecht Oehme 1876-Tragtier Kollene in Mаzedonien-1914 oil on canvas

Born in 1876 in Chemnitz. Little is known about this artist. He has probably been a War painter that traveled with the German army through Macedonian during the Great War. His oil on canvas painting “Tragtier Kollone in Mazedonien” painted in 1914 is in the collection of the fine art gallery “Atelier Der Moderne” in […]

Neuhaus Berthold Fritz

Fritz-Berthold-Neuhaus-1882–-1956-Macedonian-Peasant-1911-oil-on-canvas

Born in Dusseldorf in 1882. Son of the painter Fritz N. (born 1852). Studied art in Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe and Munich, pupil of prof. Zugel. Lived and worked in Munich and Hamburg. He visited Aegean Macedonia around 1911, where he painted at least one oil on canvas painting entitled: “Paysanne Macedonienne “sold by auction house Cuvreau […]

Morgner Wilhelm

Wilhelm-Morgner-1891–-1917-Mazedonische-Landschaft-Die-Hohe-Strase-1916-watercolor

Born in Soest on 27.01.1891. From 1908 studied at the private painting school of Georg Tappert in Worpswede. The work Morgner did in that early period was often highly realistic and frequently heavy and dark in mood. Tappert and Morgner became close friends during the brief year of training. During this early phase from 1911, […]

Markau Franz

Franz Markau (1881 –1961) Ushkub (Skopje) small mosque, 1919 oil tempera on canvas

Born on 01.11.1881 in Berlin, died on 25.01.1968 in Weimar. He was German painter and sculptor. His art studies begun in 1896 at the Handwork School in Berlin, later at the State Art School between 1901 and 1903 and finally at the Royal Art Academy in Berlin, in the class of prof. Bruno Paul and […]

Marc Franc

Franz Marc is one of the most popular German Expressionists. He was born on 08.02.1880, in Munich, Germany, died on 04.03.1916 in Braquis on the French World War One front. He studied at the Munich Art Academy in 1900, after he stopped his studies of theology and philosophy. In 1903 he traveled to Paris several […]

Macke Helmuth

Helmuth Macke (1891 – 1936) Macedonian Landscape near Dojran Lake 1918, watercolor

Born in Krefeld on 27.1.1891, died in Hemmenhofen am Bodensee on 8.9.1936. Cousin of the famous German painter August Macke. Studied art with the Dutch artist Jan Thorn-Prikker (1868-1932) at the Krefeld School of Arts and Crafts. In 1910/11 he got in touch with the very progressive group of German artists that identified themselves under […]

Lűschwitz–Koreffski Arnold

Arnold-Lűschwitz-Koreffski-1869-–-1930-Albanian-Komitadzi-Salonica-1903-watercolor

Born in Berlin in 1869 died in Berlin around 1930, Arnold Lűschwitz -Koreffski was a German / Polish painter and illustrator who traveled through the Balkans and the Orient in the early 20th century. He was probably a war painter, since he generated many portraits of German and other military portraits. He visited Macedonia, once […]