“Nature is a product of my imagination through the collaboration of all kinds of artistic means of expression. I don't see why I should try to depict nature. Being is an illusion and I am truth.” Wilhelm Morgner in a letter to Horst Tappert dated September 27, 1911, in: Knupp-Uhlenhaut, Christine, Wilhelm Morgner. Letters and Drawings, Soest 1984, p. 33,

Wilhelm Morgner grew up in a middle-class family in Soest, Westphalia. The father, a former military musician, dies early, the mother would have liked to see her son as a pastor. But Morgner had other plans: Encouraged by the intercession of Otto Modersohn, also born in Soester and co-founder of the Worpswede painter's colony, he entered the private art school Georg Tappert in Worps...