Dietz Edzard was born in Bremen in 1893. He traveled extensively through Germany, Holland, and France. He studied painting with Max Beckmann and carried on the traditions of the masters of French Impressionism. In 1929, Edzard's work was included in an exhibition of contemporary painting at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, a museum dedicated to the Impressionist masters. In 1938, Edzard married Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998), a well-regarded artist in her own right who worked in an impressionist style. Edzard captured in his canvases the charm of the Parisian and European atmosphere. With the use of light and vibrant colorful touches of his brush, he produced sparkling, and yet delicate, paintings of beautiful women, dancers, and flowers. Among his works, we can find brilliant delineations of circus life and the theatre, or spirited portrayals of Parisian café scenes which made him a favorite among the art circles in this country and abroad. Edzard preferred to work along well-defined modes of expression, following the artistic representation of portraits by Velazquez and Goya and continuing in the art by Manet and Renoir. Dietz Edzard died in 1963 in Paris, France.