Sophie Wencke-Meinken

Sophie Wencke-Meinken (29 July 1874 in Bremerhaven – 23 June 1963 in Worpswede) was a German painter.

Through a lively exhibition activity with well-known painters such as Fritz Overbeck, Otto Modersohn and Heinrich Vogeler, among others in Bremen, Berlin, Leipzig, and Cologne, she became known primarily as a landscape painter in the Impressionist painting style.

After the First World War (1919) she married the Hamburg Post Director Dr. Wilhelm Meinken, now calling himself Wencke-Meinken, lived in Hamburg-Bergedorf, but kept her studio in Worpswede.

In 1941 and 1942 she was represented with two pictures at the Great German Art Exhibition[1] in Munich, which was representative of the state-desired art in National Socialism and was propagated as the most important cultural event in National Socialist Germany.

In 1941 her oil painting "Abendclouden" was shown,[2] and in 1942 an inked chalk drawing titled "Worpsweder Landscape".