Worpswede Colony
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Worpswede Colony
Colony of German artists founded in 1897 in the village of Worpswede near Bremen. In 1889 the painters Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn (1865–1943) and Hans am Ende (1864–1918) moved to the village where they painted in the plein-air tradition of the Barbizon school. From the beginning they were closely connected with Carl Vinnen (1863–1922), who lived on his farm at Ostendorf, Bremerhaven. In 1892 they were joined by Fritz Overbeck (1869–1909) and in 1894 by
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