Previously Published by Prestel in 2006. In English Translated From German and as '50 Künstler, die man kennen sollte,' in German.

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Giotto di Bondone -- Jan van Eyck -- Sandro Botticelli -- Hieronymous Bosch -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Albrecht Dürer -- Lucas Cranach the Elder -- Michelangelo -- Titian -- Raphael -- Hans Holbein the Younger -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Caravaggio -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Diego Velázquez -- Rembrandt -- Jan Vermeer -- Jean-Antoine Watteau -- William Hogarth -- Thomas Gainsborough -- Francisco de Goya -- Jacques-Louis David -- Caspar David Friedrich -- William Turner -- Gustave Courbet -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Édouard Manet -- Paul Cézanne -- Claude Monet -- Vincent van Gogh -- Georges Seurat -- Gustav Klimt -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Henri Matisse -- Paul Klee -- Pablo Picasso -- Edward Hopper -- Max Beckmann -- Marc Chagall -- Marcel Duchamp -- Max Ernst -- Joan Miró -- Alexander Calder -- Henry Moore -- Salvador Dalí -- Frida Kahlo -- Jackson Pollock -- Joseph Beuys -- Andy Warhol -- David Hockney.

Contains entries about fifty notable artists, ranging from the thirteenth century through the twentieth century, providing biographical information, time lines, and critical analyses of their works-- Source other than Library of Congress.