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Heinrich Vogeler
Heinrich Vogeler

Heinrich Vogeler

German, 1872 – 1942
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Heinrich Vogeler was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

He was born in Bremen, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1890–95. His artistic studies during this period included visits to Belgium and Italy.

Vogeler was a central member of the original artist colony in Worpswede, which he joined in 1894. In 1895 Vogeler bought a cottage there and planted many birch trees around it, which gave the house its new name: Barkenhoff (Low German for Birkenhof, or "birch tree cottage"). In 1901, he married Martha Schröder.

He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style, and executed decorative paintings for the town hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906. During a trip to Łódź, he studied Maxim Gorky's works, which resulted in the development of a deep sympathy for the working class. This feeling reached further heights when he saw life in the slums of Glasgow and Manchester during a trip. In 1908 he and his brother Franz founded the 'Worpsweder Werkstätte', which produced household objects. His paintings increasingly reflected his sympathy for the working class.

He volunteered for military service in World War I in 1914, and he was sent to the eastern front in 1915. Vogeler came to know of the Bolsheviks ideology during his time at the front as well as through his trips to Poland, Romania, Dobrudscha and Russia. After he made a written appeal for peace to the German Emperor, he was briefly sent to a mental hospital in Bremen before being discharged from military service.

After the war he became a pacifist. During the German Revolution of 1918–19, he joined the workers' and soldiers' council of the Bremen Soviet Republic, together with his friend Curt Stoermer. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), but when it split, he joined the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD). He was close to Franz Pfemfert, who published Die Aktion. After the end of the Revolution, he was arrested for some time. It was at that time that he and his wife Martha were divorced. From that point on, he wanted to work ideologically, and the romanticism of his earlier work gave way to proletarian content. In 1931 Vogeler and his second wife Zofia "Sonja" Marchlewska, daughter of Julian Marchlewski, emigrated to Russia. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union he along with other German citizens was deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities, and died there in 1942.

KPD leader Wilhelm Pieck apparently had wanted to prevent his deportation, but Vogeler himself refused privileged treatment. As his wife Zofia and son Jan were Polish citizens they were drafted instead of being deported with him. Jan soon became a founding member of the National Committee for a Free Germany and after a long post-war academic career in Moscow died in his father's Worpswede in 2005. Zofia emigrated to Poland and died in Warsaw in 1983.

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Ex Libris Marie Hackfield (1898)

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Ex Libris Wanda Frischen-Carus

Ex Libris Wanda Frischen-Carus (1908)

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Ex Libris Tony Schütte

Ex Libris Tony Schütte (1905)

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Ex Libris Theodor Bienert

Ex Libris Theodor Bienert (1899)

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Ex Libris Senator Dr. H. Traun

Ex Libris Senator Dr. H. Traun (1908)

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Ex Libris Selma Löhnberg

Ex Libris Selma Löhnberg (1910)

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Ex Libris Rena Fränkel

Ex Libris Rena Fränkel (1912)

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Ex Libris Paul H. Schulthes II

Ex Libris Paul H. Schulthes II (1922)

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Ex Libris Paul H. Schulthes I

Ex Libris Paul H. Schulthes I (1922)

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Ex Libris Nellie Foster

Ex Libris Nellie Foster (1920)

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Ex Libris Martha Vogeler W

Ex Libris Martha Vogeler W (1906)

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Ex Libris Wilhelm Osbahr

Ex Libris Wilhelm Osbahr (1909)

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Ex Libris ‘Liegende am Meer’

Ex Libris ‘Liegende am Meer’ (1912)

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Ex Libris Leopold Engelhardt

Ex Libris Leopold Engelhardt (1911)

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Ex Libris Kurt Freiherr von Reibnitz

Ex Libris Kurt Freiherr von Reibnitz (1912)

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Ex Libris Kaethe und Willy Rosenbusch

Ex Libris Kaethe und Willy Rosenbusch (1923)

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Ex Libris Jul. A. Grober

Ex Libris Jul. A. Grober (1897)

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Ex Libris J.C. Pflueger

Ex Libris J.C. Pflueger (1897)

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Ex Libris Ida Perutz

Ex Libris Ida Perutz (1904)

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Ex Libris Hugo von Reininghaus

Ex Libris Hugo von Reininghaus (1903)

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Ex Libris Hugo Erfurth

Ex Libris Hugo Erfurth (1911)

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Dir. Gedichte

Dir. Gedichte (1899)

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The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog (1899)

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Bookplate; Otto E.H. Blendermann

Bookplate; Otto E.H. Blendermann (1900)

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Bookplate of Józef Grabowski, 1826-1899

Bookplate of Józef Grabowski, 1826-1899 (1894-1899)

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Bookplate of Alfred Hadelt

Bookplate of Alfred Hadelt (1908)

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Annunciation

Annunciation (1907)

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Vision

Vision (1921)

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Im Mai

Im Mai (1897)

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Frühlingsabend

Frühlingsabend (1897-1904)

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