Carlo Mense - Artist Info

About Carlo Mense

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    Carlo Mense (May 13, 1886 - August 11, 1965)

    He was a German artist, associated at various times with the Düsseldorf school of painting, Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity.

    Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1906 to 1908, and then with Lovis Corinth at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1909. In 1913, he co-organized (with August Macke) the first exhibition of the Rhenish Expressionists in Bonn. In 1914, he spent some time at the artists' colony at Ascona, where he met Georg Schrimpf and Heinrich Maria Davringhausen.

    From 1921 to 1925, Mense lived in Munich, where he became associated with the New Objectivity style, in particular being...

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