Carl Vinnen (28 August 1863,

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- 16 April 1922,

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) was a German landscape painter. He was also a writer, on various topics of local interest, under the

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"Johann Heinrich Fischbeck".

Life and work

He was born to Johann Christoph Vinnen (1829-1912), a shipping company owner, and his wife, Jenny Friederike née Westenfeld, who died when Carl was only seven. His younger brother, , also went into the shipping business and became a politician. After finishing school, he worked for his father's company. At the age of twenty-three, he began his studies at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, ...

, with Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola. He also took private lessons from

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. In 1888, he continued his studies in

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. He was heavily influenced by the works of

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, and focused on painting melancholy landscapes. Carl Vinnen Sommer in Worpswede

In Düsseldorf, he made the acquaintance of

Fritz Mackensen Fritz Mackensen (born 8 April 1866 in Greene, near Kreiensen, Duchy of Brunswick – 12 May 1953 in Bremen) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting and Art Nouveau. He was a friend of Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende, an ...

and

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, who would later be among the founders of the . Although he never actually lived there, he came to be perceived as a member, and helped create the "Künstlervereinigung Worpswede" (artist's association), to promote their works; an enterprise for which his earlier commercial training proved useful. A joint exhibition by the Colony and the

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, at the Glasplast in 1895, received critical praise. He maintained a studio at the family estate in Osterndorf. In winter, he painted from a portable, heated studio. Thanks to his family's wealth, he could afford to travel often; not only throughout Europe, but to Asia and Africa as well. In 1902, when the poet,

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, wrote a book about the Worpswede Colony, Vinnen declined to be included. That same year, he became engaged, to Anna Lagemann, but the wedding did not take place until many years later.Congratulatory letter from Rainer Maria Rilke to Carl Vinnen of 6 September 1902 In 1903, he was awarded a small gold medal at the

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. Shortly after, he became a member of the

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. In his later years, he moved away from his association with Worpswede. In 1908, he physically moved, from Osterndorf to

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, where he focused on maritime motifs. In 1911, he led a protest against the growing influence of French art; occasioned by the acquisition of

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's ''Poppy Field'', by the

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; under the direction of

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. He published several manifestos on the subject. At the beginning of

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, he moved to Munich, where he had a second home. After the war, in 1919, he finally married his longtime fiancée, Anna. Within a few months, he suffered a stroke. He died of a second stroke in 1922, and was interred at his family's private cemetery in Osterndorf. Vinnen moor

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