Artist Bernd Funke was a German landscape, still life and portrait painter who was born in 1902 in Gelsenkirchen/Essen and died in 1988 Heide i. Holstein.

Bernd Funke studied at the Folkwangschule Essen in 1920, and then from 1921-1923 at the Kunstschule Essen. From 1931 to 1936 Bernd was an art teacher at the school in Meppen, but then in 1936 he was suspended from teaching by the National Socialists. From 1937-40 he was director of an advertising studio in Cologne, and then during the 2nd World War Funke was a war painter in France.

During the Second World War, he was a war painter in France, Russia, Romania, and Hungary. From 1950-59 Funke worked in the Cologne art trade. From 1959-1973 Funk was a freelance artist in Meppen. Bernd Funke was based in Tellingstedt and Heide the 1970s.

Bernd Funke was born i1902 n Essen, Germany.

Bernd Funke was a German portrait and landscape painter who studied in Essen.

Funke was also a war painter in Russia, France, and Hungary.

The artist passed away in 1988 in Heide, Holstein, Germany.