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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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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