Oil/canvas. 76 x 60,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. Hans am Ende, on the stretcher inscribed 'Worpswede im Frühling'. Zustand Min. rest. - Expertise: According to Rainer Noeres of the Modersohn Museum in Fischerhude, this is one of the artist's rare early works signed by his own hand. - Provenance: Private Collection Hassia - Worpswede landscape painter and brilliant graphic artist. E. studied at the Munich academy under W. Dietz as well as in Karlsruhe under F. Keller. Together with F. Mackensen, F. Overbeck and O. Modersohn he founded the Worpswede artist's colony in 1889. Their exhibition in the Bremen Kunsthalle and in the Munich Glaspalast in 1895 was the breakthrough also for E. During WW I he worked as artist on the front. Mus.: Munich, Bremen, Mannheim, Weimar a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer a. others.