Kurt Roth (1899, Ratingen – 30 October 1975, Uetersen) was a 20th-century German painter. He was born in 1899 in Ratingen near Düsseldorf. 1920 he and his father, the painter Ludwig Max Roth, moved to Uetersen, where they lived at the monastery Uetersen in very modest circumstances. He received his training as an artist arts academies in Düsseldorf, Wroclaw, Budapest, Copenhagen, and London. On 30 October 1975 Kurt Roth died lonely and abandoned in his small attic flat.