Carlo Mense

In 1913, he co-organized (with August Macke) the first exhibition of the Rhenish Expressionists in Bonn. In 1914, he spent some time at the artists' colony at Ascona, where he met Georg Schrimpf and Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. From 1921 to 1925, Mense lived in Munich, where he became associated with the New Objectivity style, in particular being heavily influenced by Schrimpf, as well as by the Italian Valori Plastici group, with whom he exhibited in Florence in 1922. In 1925, he was appointed professor at the Kunstakademie Breslau. Alexander Kanoldt, also associated with New Objectivity, was appointed professor at the same time, and the two attempted to establish a center of New Objectivity there, but came into conflict with the mainly avant garde circle centered on Oskar Moll. Mense remained a professor at Breslau until 1932; soon thereafter, his works were branded degenerate art by the Nazis, and 34 works were seized and destroyed. He lived from 1945 in Bad Honnef, and died in 1965 in Königswinter. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1961.

Carlo Mense studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Residence is recorded at Munich and Bad Honnef. Employment is recorded with Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau. Work by Carlo Mense is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Lenbachhaus, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Neue Nationalgalerie. Distinctions recorded are Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.