Heinrich Stegemann
Germany (1888—1945)Friedrich Karl Stegemann trained as a painter before studying at the School of Arts and Crafts in Altona and the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar. During the First World War, he served in France and returned to Hamburg in 1918. He joined the Novembergruppe and later the Deutscher Künstlerbund, directing its 1936 exhibition in Hamburg, which was closed by the Nazi authorities. In 1937, his works were confiscated as degenerate art. His studio and much of his work were destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. He died of cancer in 1945.
