Painters

The Berlin Painter (working c. 490s–c. 460s BCE) is the pseudonym of an Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as a rival to the Kleophrades Painter among the most talented vase painters of the early fifth century B.C. The Berlin Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a large lidded amphora in the Antikensammlung Berlin (his namepiece). The Berlin Painter began working in the Late Archaic style and helped develop the Classic style of Attic red-figure pottery. He produced a series of Panathenaic Amphorae.

His painted figures are usually isolated or paired without framing devices against a glossy black ground, so integral to the forms of their superbly-made bodies that the wares are thought to have been produced in his shop. Over a long career he trained many younger vase-painters, including, probably, the Achilles Painter.