Hans am Ende (31 December 1864,

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– 9 July 1918,

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) was a German

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painter. In 1889 he co-founded the artists' colony in

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with Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn, and Heinrich Vogeler. 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 recogn ...

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

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. He volunteered for the army at the outbreak of the

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, serving in an infantry regiment. On 10 April 1918 he was severely wounded near Mesen and taken to the hospital in

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

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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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Rainer Maria Rilke on Hans am Ende

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