Hubert Kaplan was a German genre, landscape and animal painter. The autodidact Kaplan is inspired by the Munich school painters of the 19th century, particularly by Schleich and Lier. He studied at the Academy of Munich. He had many exhibitions all over Europe and overseas.

Hubert Kaplan also painted under the pseudonym Franz Mark.

Hubert Kaplan was born in 1940 in Munich, Germany.

Kaplan first learned the profession of wallpaperer and then completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter.

He later studied painting at the Academy in Munich. Inspired by Eduard I Schleich and Adolf Heinrich Lier, he mainly painted Bavarian landscapes.

Afterwards he undertook many study trips, including intercontinental ones. On study trips Kaplan visited Italy, Greece, France, Mexico and Africa. Impressions from these ventures also found their way into his motivic repertoire.

Kaplan's style is characterized by its own natural realism with a high level of detail.

Among his most common subjects, however, are scenes in the European rural milieu with farmers and craftsmen, in which he pays special attention to the cattle in addition to the staff, thus breathing life into the landscape.
The great theme of the Munich painter is the beauty of nature. His animals and landscapes are characterized by their fine painting and attention to detail.

In 1981, Kaplan received the first prize in the competition "Bavarian painter painting Bavaria".