15 Most Famous Artists and Painters Who are Alive Today

15. Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is a well-known name in the art circles, especially renowned for his large format architecture and landscape color photographs, which usually include a high point of view. He is a German artist, and at the moment he is a photographer and a professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Fun fact: he sold Rhein II (1999) for $4,338,500 at Christie’s and celebrated by dancing and proclaiming himself “KING and Undisputed Champion of the Most Expensive Photograph in the World”. What else could he do next but go to  Serendipity and treat himself with the World’s Most Expensive Dessert, a $25,000 chocolate sundae.