Hans am Ende (31 December 1864,

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

– 9 July 1918,

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) was a German

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter. In 1889 he co-founded the

artists' colony An art colony, also known as an artists' colony, can be defined two ways. Its most liberal description refers to the organic congregation of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, often drawn by areas of natural beauty, the prior existence o ...

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 ...

with

Fritz Overbeck August Friedrich Overbeck, known as Fritz (15 September 1869 in Bremen – 8 June 1909 in Vegesack) was a German painter and engraver. Biography He was the son of the Technical Director at Norddeutscher Lloyd. After graduating from the lo ...

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

Heinrich Vogeler Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – June 14, 1942) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Early life He was born in Bremen, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1 ...

. In 1895 this group exhibited in the

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and at the Glaspalast in

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, which brought them national recognition. In 1900 the poet

Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...

travelled to Worpswede and befriended the artist's colony, eventually writing essays about each of its members. Amongst his students at the was Anna Feldhusen, who was interested in Ende's skills in

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

. He volunteered for the army at the outbreak of the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, serving in an infantry regiment. On 10 April 1918 he was severely wounded near

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and taken to the hospital in

, where he died. His grave is preserved in the Worpswede Cemetery. Hans am Ende, Birken am Moorgraben, 189g

Notes

References

* Otto Dziobek (1922). ''Geschichte des Infanterie-Regiments Lübeck (3. hanseatisches) Nr. 162'' * Rainer Maria Rilke (1955–66) ''Sämtliche Werke. Band 1–6, Band 5'', Wiesbaden and Frankfurt a.M. * Rainer Maria Rilke (2007) ''Worpswede: Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Hans am Ende, Heinrich Vogeler''. Neuausgabe Insel, Frankfurt a. M.; 10th ed. * Sigrid Welte-Wortmann (1987). ''Die ersten Maler in Worpswede'', Worpsweder Verlag, *

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Entry for Hans am Ende
on the

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*
Rainer Maria Rilke on Hans am Ende

(in German) 1864 births 1918 deaths People from Trier People from the Rhine Province German Impressionist painters Prussian Army personnel German military personnel killed in World War I {{Germany-painter-stub

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