Kunstlerroman

A Kunstlerroman is a sub-genre of a Bildungsroman is that it recounts the growing up (and sometimes later development) of an artist. Examples might include:

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• On Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
• The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham, a fictionalised biography of Paul Gauguin
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone, which is about Michelangelo
• Lust for Life by Irving Stone which is about Vincent Van Gogh
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• Lanark by Alasdair Gray
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgard, a multi-volume work of autofiction which starts with A Death in the Family
• Demian by Hermann Hesse
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler