Biography
Heinrich Campendonk was a German artist born in Krefeld in 1889. Studying in his hometown he was exposed to the work of the Post-Impressionists, and was later associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group, exhibiting with Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky in Munich in 1912. The war years marked something of a turning point for Campendonk, who, having destroyed much of his earlier work, turned to representational fantasies, heavily influenced by Marc Chagall. He began to produce woodcut prints, accenting them with watercolour to evoke the luminosity of stained glass. In 1933 he was branded a degenerate by the Nazi regime and so was forced to move to the Netherlands, where he spent the rest of his life working at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He received successive commissions for stained-glass windows, winning the Grand Prix for Passion Window at Paris’ Exposition Universelle in 1937. He died in Amsterdam in 1957.
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