Drei Bauern. 1896.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 70 x 84 cm (27.5 x 33 in).

PROVENANCE: Consul General Bock, Shanghai.
Bernhard Kaufmann, Worpswede.
Private Collection Northern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Fritz Mackensen (1866 - 1953). Commemorative exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Forum Böttcherstraße, Bremen, March 27 - May 22, 1966; Haus am Weyerberg, Worpswede, Worpswede, May 27 - July 31, 1966, cat. no. 17.

LITERATURE: Fritz Mackensen, Verzeichnis der Arbeiten, late 1930s, no. 18.
Ulrike Hamm, Bernd Küster, Fritz Mackensen 1866-1953, Worpswede 1990, no. 1896.6 (illu.).
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Hans Bethge, Worpswede (Hans am Ende, Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, Carl Vinnen, Heinrich Vogeler), Berlin 1907, p. 64.
Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin: Gemälde und Aquarelle von Meistern unserer Zeit, auction on April 29, 1913, lot 85 (illu. on plate 4).