Fritz Mackensen (born 8 April 1866 in Greene, near

Kreiensen Kreiensen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2013, it is part of the town Einbeck. Geography Kreiensen is situated on the river Leine, approx. north of Northeim, and s ...

Duchy of Brunswick The Duchy of Brunswick (german: Herzogtum Braunschweig) was a historical German state. Its capital city, capital was the city of Braunschweig, Brunswick (). It was established as the successor state of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ...

– 12 May 1953 in

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) was a German painter of the

Düsseldorf school of painting The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) during the 1830s and 1840s, when the A ...

and

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. He was a friend of

Otto Modersohn Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn (22 February 1865, Soest – 10 March 1943, Rotenburg) was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede. Life In 1884, he began his studies at the Art Academy of Düsseldorf ...

and

Hans am Ende Hans am Ende (31 December 1864, Trier – 9 July 1918, Stettin) was a German Impressionism, Impressionist painter. In 1889 he co-founded the artists' colony in Worpswede with Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn, and Heinrich Vogeler. In 1895 this g ...

, and was one of the co-founders of the artists' colony at

Worpswede Worpswede (Northern Low Saxon: ''Worpsweed'') is a municipality in the Osterholz-Scharmbeck, district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teufelsmoor, northeast of Bremen (city), Bremen. The small town itself is located n ...

. From 1933 to 1935 he was head of the ''Nordische Kunsthochschule'' in Bremen (today's

University of the Arts Bremen The University of the Arts Bremen (German: Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany. It is one of the most successful arts institutions, and its origins date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Br ...

). In 1937 he became a member of the

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. He was buried in the Worpswede Cemetery.

Selected works

;paintings *"Gottesdienst im Freien",

Lower Saxony State Museum The Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover (german: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, italics=unset, or simply ) is the state museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany. Situated adjacent to the New Town Hall, the museum comprises the state ...

in Hanover *"Tierbild", State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg in Oldenburg *"Die Scholle", museum Weimar ;bronze sculpture *"Alte Frau mit Ziege",

Kunsthalle Bremen The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (german: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded ...

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Bibliography

* Klaus Dede: ''Fritz Mackensen. Der Entdecker Worpswedes.'' (1981), Atelier im Bauernhaus, . 1866 births 1953 deaths People from Northeim (district) People from the Duchy of Brunswick 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Art Nouveau painters Nazi Party politicians Militant League for German Culture members Stahlhelm members Bauhaus University, Weimar faculty {{Germany-painter-stub