Heinrich Stegemann

While serving an apprenticeship as a painter from 1904 to 1906, he audited classes by Franz Breest (1871-1931) at the Altonaer Kunstgewerbeschule (arts and crafts school).

At the age of twenty-six, he was recalled from studies in Italy, inducted, and posted to the western front.

[1] When he had recovered sufficiently, he established himself as a free lance artist back in his hometown of Hamburg.

[2] In 1936, the Fine Arts Division of the Reich Chamber of Culture closed what would be the DKB's final exhibition, which he was directing.

Twenty-two paintings and over one hundred drawings were in the possession of his friend, the art collector Wilhelm Werner, and were saved.