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Fritz
Mackensen

Biography and information

Fritz Mackensen (it. Fritz Mackensen; 8 APR 1866, Grenå near Kreiensen — 12 may 1953, Bremen) was a German painter, one of the most famous representatives of Jugendstil architecture in Northern Germany.

Fritz Mackensen studied painting with Peter Janssen in Dusseldorf and Wilhelm von Diez and Friedrich August von Kaulbach in Munich working mainly on the subject of historical painting. Despite the influence of teachers, the main interest of the young artist evoke landscape painting and the depiction of everyday peasant life. In 1884 he settled in Worpswede near Bremen, where in 1889, together with Otto Modersohn founds the colony of artists which, among others, joined Hans am ende, Heinrich Vogeler, Fritz Overbeck, Bernhard Heger and Paula Moderson-Becker.

In 1910-1918 he taught in Weimar and in the years of Mackensen become known throughout Germany. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke sang of the artist's work in a book of poems On pilgrimage (1903).

  • Art forms
    Painting