Fritz Mackensen (1866-1953)

Aliases: Heinrich Friedrich Karl Mackensen

Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Porträtmaler; Landscape painter; Sculptor; Etcher; Modelleur

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  Mackensen, Fritz 1866 Greene - 1953 Bremen was active in Worpswede and Weimar Still life with Flowers in a brown Jug by the Window.

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  Mackensen, Fritz, 1866-1953, Heimkehrende Fischer

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  FRITZ MACKENSEN Greene/Braunschweig 1866 - 1953 Bremen

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  FRITZ MACKENSEN Greene/Braunschweig 1866 - 1953 Bremen

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Fritz Mackensen Biography

(b Greene, nr Einbeck, 8 April 1866; d Bremen, 1953). German painter. After attending the academies in Düsseldorf and Munich, in 1889 he moved to Worpswede, a village on the moors that he had visited regularly from 1884. The simple life of the peasants and bare landscape led Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), Hans am Ende and others to join him, forming the WORPSWEDE COLONY. He was thus part of the 19th-century movement that was rooted in the rejection of classical academic study, concern at the alienation of people from their environment by industrialization, the romantic move ‘back to nature’ and (in Mackensen’s case) also in long-established nationalistic feelings. His quiet, clearly grasped representations of peasants engrossed in daily work reveal his ideal of a unity of humankind with nature, but they are still far removed from the poor conditions of reality. This may be the reason for Mackensen’s rapid rise to popularity with the bourgeoisie. He achieved fame with his large painting Religious Service on the Moor (1886–95; Hannover, Hist. Mus. Hohen Ufer; for illustration see WORPSWEDE COLONY), in which a group of serious people in their Sunday clothes listens to a sermon in front of a row of peasant cottages.

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