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'''Fritz Mackensen''' (8 April 1866 – 12 May 1953) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting and Art Nouveau.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fritz Mackensen {{!}} Artnet|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/fritz-mackensen/|access-date=17 June 2021|website=www.artnet.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Fritz Mackensen|url=https://www.worpswede-museen.de/fritz-mackensen.html|access-date=17 June 2021|website=Worpswede Museen|language=de}}</ref> He was a friend of Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende, and was one of the co-founders of the artists' colony at Worpswede. From 1933 to 1935 he was head of the ''Nordische Kunsthochschule'' in Bremen (today's University of the Arts Bremen). In 1937 he became a member of the Nazi Party. He was buried in the Worpswede Cemetery.

==Selected works== ;paintings *"Gottesdienst im Freien", Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover *"Tierbild", State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg in Oldenburg *"Die Scholle", museum Weimar ;bronze sculpture *"Alte Frau mit Ziege", Kunsthalle Bremen

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== Bibliography == * Klaus Dede: ''Fritz Mackensen. Der Entdecker Worpswedes.'' (1981), Atelier im Bauernhaus, {{ISBN|3-88132-132-2}}. {{Commons category|Fritz Mackensen}} {{Authority control}}

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