Mondaufgang

Hans am Ende co-founded the artists' colony at Worpswede in 1889, a group of painters who settled in a village near Bremen to paint the flat, wet landscape of the north German moors. Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, and Heinrich Vogeler were among them. Paula Becker — later Paula Modersohn-Becker — joined shortly after. In 1900, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Worpswede and wrote essays about each of its members. Mondaufgang was painted that same year. A full moon hangs in a sky of muted violet and pink above a dark marshy field, its light reflected in a pool of standing water among the reeds. A line of trees sits on the horizon at right. Am Ende volunteered for the army in 1914 and was killed on the Western Front in 1918.