Clara Westhoff, also known as Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a pioneer German sculptor and artist. She was the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is noted for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. She is considered one of the most important representatives of early expressionism, producing more than 700 paintings and over 1000 drawings during her active painting life. She is recognized both as the first known woman painter to paint nude self-portraits, and the first woman to have a museum devoted exclusively to her art. Additionally, she is considered to be the first woman artist to depict herself both pregnant and nude and pregnant.
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, in Nazi Germany. She became mentally ill and was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. Since 2000, a memorial center for the T4 program in the house commemorates her life and work in a permanent exhibition.
Worpswede is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teufelsmoor, northeast of Bremen. The small town itself is located near the Weyerberg hill. It has been the home to an artistic community since the end of the 19th century.
Fritz Mackensen was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting and Art Nouveau. He was a friend of Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende, and was one of the co-founders of the artists' colony at Worpswede. From 1933 to 1935 he was head of the Nordische Kunsthochschule in Bremen. In 1937 he became a member of the Nazi Party. He was buried in the Worpswede Cemetery.
Bernhard Hoetger was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement.
The Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany, is the first museum in the world devoted to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was one of the most important early Expressionists, and the museum features key works from each of her creative periods.
August Friedrich Overbeck, known as Fritz was a German painter and engraver.
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.
Theodor Gustav Pauli was a German art historian and museum director in Bremen and Hamburg.
Xenia Hausner is an Austrian painter and stage designer.
Gillian Perry is professor of history of art at the Open University. She is a specialist in eighteenth century portraiture and has written two books on the actress in art. In 2011/12 she curated the exhibition The First Actresses at the National Portrait Gallery in London which was widely reviewed.
Elisabeth Loewe was a German artist of the Post- Expressionism.
Clara Vogedes née Homscheidt (1892–1983) was a German painter.
Liselotte von Reinken was a German historian, biographer of Wilhelm Groener and Paula Modersohn-Becker. She also worked at Radio Bremen for 19 years.
Anna Amalie Elisabeth "Lisel" Oppel was a German painter. Sixty years after her death, she remains one of the better remembered representatives of the Worpswede Artists' Colony.
Johann Büsen is a German visual artist.
Sophie Wencke-Meinken was a German painter.
Ottilie Reylaender was a German painter. She was one of the pioneers of modern art in Germany.
