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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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
“The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)