Hans am Ende, Birken am Moorgraben, 189g

Hans am Ende (1864–1918) was a German Impressionist painter. In 1889 he co-founded the artist's colony in Worpswede with Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn, and Heinrich Vogeler. In 1895 this group exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bremen and at the Glaspalast in Munich, which brought them national recognition. In 1900 the poet Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Worpswede and befriended the artist's colony, eventually writing essays about each of its members.