Carl Vinnen - Artist Info

About Carl Vinnen

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    Impressionist landscape painted with a soft, pasty touch by Vinnens, who is among the closest entourage of Worpswede artists. Vinnen studied at the academies of fine arts in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe with Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola, and also took private lessons with Eugen Dücker.

    It was in Düsseldorf that he met Fritz Mackensen and Otto Modersohn, who visited him for a few weeks in 1889 at Vinnen's father's estate in Osterndorf (today a district of Beverstedt). In the same year, Mackensen, Modersohn and Hans am Ende founded their artists' colony in Worpswede, about 25 kilometers from Osterndorf. During subsequent mutual visits to Worpswede and Osterndorf, Vinnen also got to know Hans am Ende, Fritz Overbeck (1892), Heinrich ...

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