Artists
- Hans von Aachen (1552–1615), mannerist painter
- Albrecht Altdorfer (1480–1538), painter
- Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), sculptor (and writer)
- Günther Behnisch (born 1922) architect
- Peter Behrens (1868–1940) architect
- Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010) photographer
- Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), artist
- Elisabeth Böhm (born 1921), architect
- Gottfried Böhm (born 1920) architect
- Arno Breker (1900–1991), sculptor
- Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), painter
- Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), painter
- Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), painter
- Yitzhak Danziger (1916–77), Berlin-born Israeli sculptor
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), painter
- Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), architect and designer
- Max Ernst (1891–1976), surrealist painter
- Carl Eytel (1862–1925), painter of desert landscapes in the American Southwest
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter
- Dörte Gatermann (born 1956), architect
- Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect
- George Grosz (1893–1959), artist
- Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch, (1794–1848), painter (genre works)
- Hannah Höch – artist
- Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1465–1524), painter
- Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543), illustrator, painter
- Harro Magnussen (1861–1908), sculptor
- Jörg Immendorff, painter
- Helmut Jahn (born 1940) architect and designer
- Ulli Kampelmann (born 1952) sculptor and painter
- Anselm Kiefer (born 1945), painter
- Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997), painter
- Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) architect
- Hans Kollhoff (born 1946) architect
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter
- Max Liebermann, painter
- Markus Lüpertz (born 1941), painter and sculptor
- Franz Marc (1880–1916), painter
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) architect, designer
- Helmut Newton (1920–2004), photographer
- Frei Otto (born 1925) architect and research scientist
- Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), painter
- Gerhard Richter (born 1932), painter
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect, painter
- Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), choreographer, painter, sculptor, stage & costume designer
- Eberhard Schlotter (born 1921), painter
- Kurt Schwitters, painter, poet
- Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) architect and urban designer
- Max Slevogt, painter
- Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), painter
- Birgit Stauch (born 1961) sculptor
- Franz Stuck, painter
- Yigal Tumarkin (born 1933), Israeli painter and sculptor
- Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), artist
- Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951), architect
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“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)