Albert Bierstadt
Salesman for westward expansion
1830-1902
Albrecht Dürer
Taking printmaking to the next level
1471-1528
Andreas Cellarius
The first space race
1596-1665
Caspar David Friedrich
The quiet tragedy of the big big world
1774-1840
Charles Dellschau
Anti-gravity fuel and the adventures of the Sonora Aero Club
1830-1923
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
A living collage
1874-1927
Ernst Haeckel
The beautiful weirdness of nature
1834-1919
Eva Hesse
Living materials
1936-1970
Franz Stuck
The darkness beckons
1863-1928
Hannah Höch
Dissecting the 'new woman' through collage
1889-1978
Hans Hofmann
1880-1966
Herrad of Landsberg
A French abbess creates the first female-authored encyclopedia
1130-1195
Hildegard von Bingen
Scientist, feminist, typographer, musician — saint
1098-1179
Käthe Kollwitz
Printmaker & social activist
1867-1945
Maria Sibylla Merian
A botanist gets a divorce and travels the world
1647-1717
Martin Schongauer
Titan of Printmaking
1445-1491
Max Ernst
Trauma and displacement birth surrealism
1891-1976
Méret Oppenheim
"X = an Orange Rabbit"
1913-1985
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Why do Expressionists die young?
1876-1907
