Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer, painter and printmaker, was born in Ziegenhain, Germany on 6 August 1857. After his father’s death, his mother moved the family to Marburg, where he attended the Gymnasium Philippinum. He later studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin where he was a student of Paul Thumann, Knille Michael and Karl Gussow. Bantzer also studied with Leon Pohle in Dresden and with the painter Wilhelm Claudius in Schwaim.

In 1896, Bantzer was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and, in 1903, he joined the Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists) and, in 1904, he participated in their first joint exhibition with the Munich Secession. Bantzer was Director of the Kunsthochschule Kassel between 1918 and 1923. He was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft in 1937. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Berlin.

Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer died in Marburg, Germany on 19 December 1941.