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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“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)
“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)