Usage Note
Maler covers both the artist and the house painter; context (or Kunstmaler vs. Anstreicher) disambiguates. The plural is unchanged, die Maler, and a female painter is a Malerin.
Examples
"Der Maler verkauft seine Bilder."
Natural Translation
The painter sells his pictures.
Literal Translation
The painter sells his pictures.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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