The painter Theodor Adolf Eugen Gems (1889 - 1980) also belongs to the post-impressionist generation. His father ran a painting and decoration business in Eberbach. After the First World War Gems studied in Karlsruhe under Albert Haueisen (1872 - 1954). Because of a job as a church painter, he moved to the Palatinate and became a resident of Schifferstadt.