Heinrich Campendonk

The youngest member of the Blue Rider group long stood in the shadow of his painter colleagues Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Paul Klee. In recent years, Heinrich Campendonk has experienced an unparalleled rediscovery, which is accompanied by a reassessment of his extensive oeuvre. In 1921, the art historian and publisher Georg Biermann described Campendonk's early work in "Junge Kunst" as a single symphony of color and rhythm. A few years later, his paintings were denounced as degenerate, and he was driven into exile in the Netherlands, where he passed away in 1957. In this bibliophile volume, the author embarks on a quest to uncover one of the most fascinating artistic personalities of the last century and vividly explains the exciting intertwining of his artistic development and contemporary history.