#campendonk

Heinrich Campendonk (German-Dutch, 1889 – 1957)

Two children’s heads, 1915

Heinrich Campendonk (German-Dutch, 1889 - 1957)

Bucolic Landscape, 1913

Oil on canvas, 100.6 x 85.7 cm

Heinrich Campendonk (German-Dutch, 1889 - 1957)  

Child with balloon (Kind mit Luftballon), N/D

Campendonk was the son of a textile merchant, stopped his textile apprenticeship in 1905. From 1905 – 1909, he received artistic education from Johan Thorn Prikker, a very progressive school for arts and crafts at the time. He became friends with Helmuth Macke, August Macke, Wilhelm Wieger, Franz Marc and Paul Klee during this time. He was born in Krefeld. He was a member of the Der Blaue Reiter group, from 1911 to 1912. When the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, he was among the many modernists condemned as degenerate artists, and prohibited from exhibiting. He moved to the Netherlands, where he spent the rest of his life working at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, first teaching Decorative Art, printmaking and stained-glass, then as the Academy Director.He died as a naturalized Dutchman.

http://www.ftn-books.com has some nice Campendonk publications available.

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Heinrich Campendonk (German-Dutch, 1889 - 1957)   

The shepherd with the big goat (Der Hirt mit der grossen Ziege), 1920 

Heinrich Campendonk (German-Dutch, 1889 - 1957)   

Cow, 1914