Frühlingssonne. 1895.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and inscribed "Worpswede" lower right. With two exhibition labels on the reverse of the stretcher. 165 x 195 cm (64.9 x 76.7 in).

PROVENANCE: Heinrich Glosemeyer Collection (1896-1969), Bremen.
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above around 1960, since then in family possession).

EXHIBITION: Münchener Jahresausstellung, Glaspalast, Munich, 1896, no. 395 ("Frühlingssonne").
Große Kunstausstellung, Dresden, 1908, no. 149 ("Alte mit Ziege").
Grand Ducal School of Art, Weimar, 1910, no. 149 (with illustration "Alte mit Ziege").
Exhibition of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in Mannheim 1913, no. 226.
Fritz Mackensen, Weimar, 1917, no. 51 (" Im Frühling").
Fritz Mackensen (1866 - 1953). Commemorative exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Forum Böttcherstraße, Bremen, May 27-22, 1966 (with the labels on the reverse); Haus am Weyerberg, Worpswede, Worpswede, May 27-July 31, 1966, cat. no. 16.

LITERATURE: Fritz Mackensen, catalogue raisonné, late 1930s, no. 17.
Ulrike Hamm, Bernd Küster, Fritz Mackensen 1866-1953, Worpswede 1990, WVZ no. 1895.2 (with illustration).
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Hans Müller-Brauel, Worpswede und die Worpsweder, in: Kunst unserer Zeit, vol. 7, H. 2, 1896, p. 116 (illu. p. 107).
Rainer Maria Rilke, Worpswede, Berlin/Leipzig 1903, p. 34, (illu. 8), p. 29.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Worpswede, Berlin/Leipzig 1905, p. 34 (illu. 13).
Hans Bethge, Worpswede (Hans am Ende, Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Carl Vinnen, Heinrich Vogeler), Berlin 1907, p. 64 (illu. between pp. 16-17).
Hans Bethge, Fritz Mackensen, in: Westermanns Monatshefte, vol. 111, II, 1911, illu. p. 495.
Hans Wohltmann, Worpswede: Die ersten Worpsweder Maler und ihre Bedeutung für die deutsche Kunst, Worpsweder 1975, p. 24.