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Provenance
Estate of Dr. W Bruhn;
Private collection, California.
Coming of age in the years after the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, Hans am Ende grew up in Trier as the son of a Pastor. With the help of a local benefactor he enrolled at the Munich Academy of Art, where he studied painting and printmaking. His first breakthrough as an artist occurred at the 1895 Munich exhibition, where he showed several large etchings. At that time he had founded an artist's colony in Worpswede, near Bremen, together with Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn and Heinrich Vogeler. The small, remote village offered abundant subject matter for Hans am Ende's moody landscapes with low-hanging sky over verdant tree lines.
The poet Reiner Maria Rilke befriended the group around 1900 and wrote short biographical essays on each of the colony's members.