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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Alfred Brehm (1829-1884)
biologist, ornithologist, zoologist, painter, naturalist
- University of Jena
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
painter, architect, art historian, biographer, art theorist, aesthetician, architectural draftsperson, visual artist
Yuan Mei (1716-1797)
painter, poet, calligrapher, politician
Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1714-1791)
art historian, painter, teacher, drawer
Giovanni Baglione (1565-1643)
painter, art historian, historian, architectural draftsperson, drawer
Jacob Campo Weyerman (1677-1747)
painter, botanical illustrator, art historian, etcher
Brian Clarke (born 1953)
painter, professor, visual artist, sculptor, ceramicist, stained-glass artist, printmaker, tapestry designer, installation artist, scenographer