Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (3 November 1889 – 9 May 1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen.
Campendonk was born inKrefeld,Kingdom of Prussia,German Empire. He was the son of a textile merchant, and served a textile apprenticeship until 1905. From 1905 to 1909, he received artistic education fromJohan Thorn Prikker at theHandwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule in Krefeld, a progressive school for arts and crafts. He became friends withHelmuth Macke [de],August Macke,Wilhelm Wieger,Franz Marc andPaul Klee during this time.
He was a member of theDer Blaue Reiter group from 1911 to 1912.
In the 1930s, Campendonk taught at theKunstakademie Düsseldorf. In particular,Wilhelm Teuwen was his student there and also an assistant helping Campendonk with production ofstained glass. When theNazi regime came to power in 1933, he was among the manymodernists condemned asdegenerate artists, and prohibited from exhibiting, as well as fired from the Academy.[1] He moved to the Netherlands, where he spent the rest of his life working at theRijksakademie in Amsterdam, first teaching Decorative Art,printmaking andstained-glass, then as the Academy Director.[2] He died as a naturalized Dutchman on 9 May 1957 in Amsterdam.
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