page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Artists
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Art and literature / Artists
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of German-American sculptor Elisabeth Ney with a bust of King George V of Hanover
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Anni Albers – printmaker, textile artist
  Josef Albers – painter and graphic artist
  Christian Siriano – fashion designer
  Earl W. Bascom – painter, printmaker, and sculptor ("Cowboy of Cowboy Artists")
  Robert Benecke – early photographer
  Albert Bierstadt – painter, known for his large landscapes of the American West
  Richard Bock – sculptor and associate of Frank Lloyd Wright
  Charles Dellschau – one of America's earliest known outsider artists, draftsman engineer, creating drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships
  Rudolph Dirks – comic strip artist who created The Katzenjammer Kids
  Alfred Eisenstaedt – photographer and photojournalist best remembered for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day
  Jimmy Ernst – German-born artist
  Carl Eytel – German-born artist of desert landscapes living in early 20th-century Palm Springs, California
  Claire Falkenstein – sculptor, painter, print-maker and jewelry designer known for her large-scale abstract metal and glass sculptures
  Andreas Feininger – photographer and writer on photographic technique
  Lyonel Feininger – painter and caricaturist
  Steven Fischer – film producer and cartoonist
  Carl Giers – early photographer
  George Grosz – member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s
  Don Heck – comics artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics characters Iron Man and the Wasp, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books
  Uli Herzner – fashion designer
  Hans Hofmann – abstract expressionist painter
  Ubbe Ert Iwwerks – Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, famous for his work for Walt Disney
  Klaus Janson – comic book artist (inker), working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies
  Ulli Kampelmann – painter and filmmaker
  Kenya (Robinson) – multimedia artist whose work includes performance, sculpture and installation
  Charles Kleibacker – fashion designer who earned the nickname "Master of the Bias"
  Franz Jozef Kline – abstract expressionist painter
  Harold Knerr – illustrator of The Katzenjammer Kids until 1949
  John Lewis Krimmel – America's first genre painter
  Emanuel Leutze – history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware
  Cornelius Krieghoff – painter
  Nicola Marschall – artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform
  Louis Maurer – lithographer
  David Muench – landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape
  Josef Muench – photographer and environmentalist
  Marc Muench – sports and landscape photographer
  Charles Christian Nahl – painter who is called California's first significant artist
  Thomas Nast – political cartoonist
  Elisabet Ney – sculptor
  Erwin Panofsky – art historian, of Jewish descent
  Julian Ritter – Classical Realist painter best known for his paintings of nudes, clowns and portraits and his ill-fated voyage of the South Pacific
  Severin Roesen – still life painter
  Paulus Roetter – landscape and botanical painter
  Christopher Sauer – earliest type founder in America, published the first German Bible, 1743, and the first religious magazine in America, 1764
  Christian Schwartz – type designer
  Gustavus Sohon – artist
  Henry William Stiegel – glassmaker and ironmaster
  Alfred Stieglitz – photographer instrumental in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture
  Ruth VanSickle Ford – painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
  Richard Veenfliet – artist known for illustration-figure, genre and landscape
  Patrizia von Brandenstein – production designer
  Kat Von D (Katherine von Drachenberg) – tattoo artist
  Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – avant-garde, Dadaist artist, and poet
  Baroness Hilla von Rebay – abstract painter, helped establish the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City
  William G. Wehner – painter and prominent businessman in the Panorama era (Milwaukee & Chicago) and a
caption: Elisabet Ney
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