The competition closed yesterday and we can now reveal the answers - click here to view the answer sheet.
We would like to thank all competitors who gave their time to enter the competition - we have had a fantastic response. The winner is Sally Meecham-Jones.
Here is a list of all the figures on the front cloth:
Theodor Adorno – 1903-1969
Sociologist, philosopher and musicologist
Josef Albers - 1888-1976
Artist
Anni Albers – 1899-1994
Artist
Hanna Arendt – 1906-1975
Political theorist
Johann Sebastian Bach – 1685-1750
Composer.
Pina Bausch – 1940-2009
Choreographer.
Max Beckmann – 1884-1950
Artist.
Ludwig Van Beethoven – 1770-1827
Composer.
Walter Benjamin – 1892-1940
Philosopher, sociologist and essayist
Alban Berg – 1885-1935
Composer.
Ruth Berghaus – 1927-1996
Choreographer and opera and theatre director
Joseph Beuys – 1921-1986
Artist
Arnold Böcklin – 1827-1901
Artist
Johannes Brahms – 1833-1897
Composer.
Klaus Maria Brandauer – Born 1944
Actor and film director
Bertolt Brecht – 1898-1956
Playwright and poet
Anton Bruckner – 1824-1826
Composer.
Georg Buchner - 1813-1837
Writer
Frank Castorf – Born 1951
Theatre director.
Marlene Dietrich – 1901-1992
Actress and singer
Otto Dix – 1891-1969
Painter and printmaker
Max Ernst – 1891-1976
Artist and poet
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder – 1945-1982
Director, screenwriter and actor
Marieluise Fleißer – 1901-1974
Author and playwright
Sigmund Freud – 1856-1939
Psychoanalyst and writer
Caspar David Friedrich – 1774-1840
Artist.
Wilhelm Furtwangler – 1886-1954
Conductor and composer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – 1749-1832
Writer
Gunter Grass- Born 1927
Author and playwright
Brothers Grimm – Jacob Grimm 1785-1863- Wilhelm Grimm- 1786-1859
Academics
Walter Adolph George Gropius – 1883-1969
Architect
George Grosz – 1893-1959
Artist
George Frideric Handel – 1685-1759
Composer.
Peter Handke – Born 1942
Novelist and playwright
Michael Haneke – Born 1942
Filmmaker and writer
Franz Joseph Haydn – 1732-1809
Composer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – 1770-1831
Philosopher
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine – 1797-1856
Poet, journalist, essayist and literary critic
Erich Mendelsonn – 1887-1953
Architect
Werner Herzog – Born 1942
Film director, producer and screenwriter
Paul Hindemith – 1895-1963
Composer
Hannha Hoch – 1889-1978
Artist
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann - 1776-1822
Writer and composer
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal – 1874-1929
Novelist, librettist, poet and dramatist
Ödön von Horváth – Born 1901-1938
Playwright and novelist
Engelbert Humperdinck – 1854-1921
Composer
Herbert von Karajan – 1908-1989
Conductor
Anselm Kiefer – Born 1945
Artist
Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszy?ski
(Better known as Klaus Kinski) - 1926-1991
Actor
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – 1880-1938
Artist
Paul Klee – 1879-1940
Artist
Oskar Kokoschka – 1886 – 1980
Artist, poet and playwright.
Kathe Kollwitz – 1867-1945
Artist
Friedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang – 1890-1976
Filmmaker and screenwriter
Lotte Lehmann - 1888-1971
Soprano
Franz Lehar – 1870-1948
Composer
Lotte Lenya – 1898-1981
Singer and actress
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – 1729-1781
Writer, philosophist and dramatist.
Ernst Lubitsch – 1892-1947
Film Director.
Thomas Mann – 1875-1955
Novelist and essayist
Christoph Marthaler – Born 1951
Theatre and opera director
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – 1756-1791
Composer
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy – 1801-1862
Playwright, actor and singer
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – 1844-1900
Philosopher
Emile Nolde – 1867-1956
Artist
Jacques Offenbach – 1819-1880
Artist
Carl Orff – 1895-1982
Composer
Neo Rauche – Born 1960
Artist
Gerhard Richter – Born 1932
Artist
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl – 1902-2003
Film director, actress and dancer.
Rainer Maria Rilke – 1875-1926
Poet and art critic
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – 1886-1969
Architect
Joseph Roth – 1894-1939
Novelist
August Sander – 1876-1964
Photographer
Christian Schad – 1894-1982
Artist
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller – 1759-1805
Poet, philosopher and historian
Karl Friedrich Schinkel – 1781-1841
Architect
Elisabeth Schumann – 1888-1952
Soprano
Clara Schumann – 1819-1896
Musician and composer
Arthur Schopenhauer – 1788-1860
Philosopher
Franz Schreker – 1878-1934
Composer
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters – 1887-1948
Artist
Hanna Schygulla – Born 1943
Actress and singer
Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald – 1944-2001
Writer
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – 1915-2006
Opera singer
Anja Silja Regina Langwagen – Born 1940
Soprano
Douglas Sirk – 1897-1987
Film director
Richard Georg Strauss – 1864-1949
Composer
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Born 1935
Film director
Richard Tauber – 1891-1948
Tenor
Johann Ludwig Tieck – 1773-1853
Poet and novelist
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber – 1786-1826
Composer and conductor
Maximilian Carl Emil "Max" Weber – 1864-1920
Sociologist.
Helene Weigel – 1900-1971
Actress
Simone Weil – 1909-1943
Philosopher
Kurt Julian Weill – 1900-1950
Composer
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders – Born 1945
Film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer
Billy Wilder 1906 -2002
Filmmaker
Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich – 1930-1966
Tenor
Anna Viebrock – Born 1951
Set designer, costumer designer and director.
Alexander Zemlinsky – 1871-1942
Composer, conductor and teacher
Stefan Zweig – 1881-1942
Novelist, playwright and journalist