Lesser Rudi
Born and died in Berlin, Germany. Rudy Lesser was German expressionist mainly active as watercolor and graphic artist. He was a student of prof. Hans Meid. In 1933 he immigrated to the Scandinavian countries (Denmark and Sweden) in order to escape from the emerging Nazi regime. From 1946 until 1956 he lived in USA, where […]
Kuch Carlos
“Carlos Kuch” is an artist pseudonym for German painter Karl Opferkuch (Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1899 – 1966, Hochgebirge). He was a landscape painter. Little is known about his life/ However he probably was German soldier in the First World War. Two of his watercolors – Street in Ushkub (Skopje) 1917 and Street in Veles 1917 are […]
Krommer Hermann Helmut
Born in Oprava (Troppau), Poland on 17.9.1891, died in Boston, USA on 6.6.1973. After graduating from the German state High School in 1910, he started taking art lessons from the academic painter Adolf Zdrazila. In 1910, Krommer served as a volunteer for one year at the Royal German infantry regiment Nr.1 in Troppau and Mostar. […]
Klee Paul
Born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland in 1879. He studied art at the Munich Art Academy (1898-1901) and later became associated with the Blaue Reiter group. Klee lived in Germany during the First World War and in 1916 was called up by the German Army. He was not sent to the front-line and spent some of his […]
Keller-Kühne Woldemar Josef
Born 23.04.1902 in Munich-Neuhausen, died on 09.03.1991 in Miesbach. German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Member of the Munich Artists’ Cooperative. Josef Woldemar Keller-Kühne studied from 1921 to 1930 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Heinrich von Zügel and Angelo Jank. During his studies he traveled to Austria, Hungary, […]
Hielscher Kurt
Kurt Hielscher was one of the most famous German art photographers of his time. He was born in Striegau, Schlesien (Silesia, Poland) and died in Lichtenstein in Sachsen. He was a German language teacher in Spain during the first world war, where he made thousands of artistic photographs of Spanish landscapes. In the 1920s he […]
Hempfing Wilhelm
Born on 15.7. 1886 in Schönau/Heidelberg, died on 6. 6. 1948 in Karlsruhe, Wilhelm Hempfing swas a German painter and printmaker who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (just like his colleague student Emil Nolde) with Professor Friedrich Fehr. He was also an important and excellent etcher trained by Walter Conz at […]
Heckendorf Franz
Born in Berlin on 5th November 1888, died in Munich on 17th August 1962. He studied at the Academy of Decorative Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts and had his first exhibitions in the Berlin Secession as early as in 1909. His first paintings were focused on impressionism and mainly showed motives he had […]
Hänel Georg
Born and died in Dresden (died in the very last hours of the Second World War from an strained bullet), Germany where he would remain for most of his life. Studied art at the Dresden Academy as a student of Bauzer and Bracht. Hänel sometimes featured figures in his works, although he was not known […]
Haag Robert
Born in 1886 in Stuttgart, died in 1955 in Biberach Germany. Well known painter from South Germany. Studied art at the Art academy in Stuttgart. Made several study trips to Holland and Belgium. During the First World War, Robert Haag was a war painter in Macedonia, he visited Prilep and Skopje around 1918, where he […]
