Arts and Culture
36 famous people found
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Paul Klee
Swiss-born German artist
1879 - 1940 -
Walter BENJAMIN
German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist
1892 - 1940 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer
1901 - 1992 -
Anne FRANK
German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist
1929 - 1945 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Composer, pianist and conductor
1770 - 1827 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863 -
Karl MARX
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary
1818 - 1883 -
Heinrich HEINE
Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets
1797 - 1856 -
Felix MENDELSSOHN
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor
1809 - 1847 -
Erich Maria REMARQUE
German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front
1898 - 1970 -
Johann Sebastian BACH
German composer, organist, violist, and violinist
1685 - 1750 -
Erika Mann
German actress and writer
1905 - 1969 -
Franz EGENIEFF
German opera singer and actor
1874 - 1949 -
Wilhelm BUSCH
German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter
1832 - 1908 -
Gustav LANDAUER
One of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany
1870 - 1919 -
Johann Michael MOSCHEROSCH
German satirist and moralist
1601 - 1669