Works by this Artist
Mother and Child, “Moor Madonna”Fritz Mackensen, 1892
Studies
Düsseldorf Art Academy (1884-848; Munich Art Academy (1888-89)
Career
1884 - spends first summer in Worpswede, a farming village in the peat bogs near Bremen
1889 - helps establish Worpswede artists' colony, along with Hans am Ende, Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn, and Heinrich Vogeler
1895 - moves to Worpswede
1895-96 - exhibits at the Glaspalast (Munich)
1910 - director of Weimar art academy (Kunsthochschule)
1918 - returns to Worpswede
1933-35 - oversees construction of the Nordic Art Academy (Nordischen Kunsthochschule) in Bremen
1937 - joins Nazi Party; exhibits Church Service on the Moor at the Great German Art Exhibition (Munich)
1944 - included in Adolf Hitler's list of the most important German artists
Students
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Clara Westhoff
Important Artworks
Church Service on the Moor, 1886-95 (Historischen Museum, Hannover)
Grieving Family, 1897
Readings
Hetmann, Frederik. Worpswede: die Geschichte einer deutschen Künstlerkolonie. Munich: C. Bertelsmann, 1987 (in German)
Worpswede: eine deutsche Künsterkolonie um 1900. Ottersberg-Fischerhude: Galerie Verlag Fischerhude, 1986 (in German)
Images
Worpswede. Mackensen was attracted by this peaceful farming village.
Worpswede. Mackensen often painted on these moors and peat bogs outside Worpswede.
Worpswede (red arrow) is just north of Bremen.