Biography

Heinrich Vogeler (Bremen 1872 - 1942 Karaganda/Kazakhstan)

Heinrich Johann Vogeler came from a merchant family in Bremen and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1890. Even during his studies, he was able to gather impressions in various European art metropolises and find his own individual style. In 1895, he joined the emerging artists' colony in Worpswede. There he devoted himself to painting, illustration and the design of arts and crafts objects, but he also penned plans for workers' housing estates and houses for the less well-off. Together with his brother Franz, he also set up a furniture workshop in Worpswede in 1908.

Committed to socio-political issues from an early age, he was very enthusiastic about Russia after the October Revolution at the end of the First World War and made regular trips to the now socialist country from 1923 onwards. In 1931, he finally settled in Moscow and took part in the resistance against the National Socialist German Reich with his posters and leaflets. In September 1941, he and other foreigners were deported to a collective farm in Kazakhstan near Karaganda, where the 70-year-old died of exhaustion caused by hard labor and malnutrition.

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