Heinrich Campendonk expressionist painter and print-maker was born in Krefeld Germany and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule 1905-09. From 1911 he was affiliated to the ‘Blauen Reiters’ group of artists. Around 1922 he became a stage designer for the theatre in Krefeld. 1923/26 he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essener and in 1926/33 became professor of art at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. He emigrated to Belgium in 1933 and in 1935 was appointed professor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Ref: Mathias T.Engels: Campendonk Holzschnitte, Stuttgart 1959.