Jörg Maaß - Heinrich Campendonk

Heinrich Campendonk
(1889-1957)

Heinrich Campendonk created an idyllic, evocative world inspired by his inner experience and personal symbols. Campendonk's graphics stress the instinctive over the intellectual and the unconscious over the rational. Unlike so many of his avant-garde contemporaries, his work lacks any sense of engagement with current social and political problems.

He often looked to nature and animals to compose a dreamlike, illogical world reminiscent of Marc Chagall. He often worked in a traditional style of the woodcut medium by juxtaposing tonal areas and creating a linear surface pattern. (Excerpt from German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen)