Russia. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union he along with other German citizens was deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities, and died there in 1942. KPD leader Wilhelm Pieck apparently had wanted to prevent his deportation, but Vogeler himself refused privileged treatment. As his wife Zofia and son Jan were Polish citizens they were drafted instead of being deported with him. Jan soon became a founding member of the National Committee for a Free Germany and after a long post-war academic career in Moscow died in his father's Worpswede in 2005. Zofia emigrated to Poland and died in Warsaw in 1983. Meanwhile, the Barkenhoff became a children's home. It was recently restored and has re-opened as a Heinrich Vogeler Museum in 2004. Late works from Heinrich Vogeler's oeuvre appear to have some Egyptian influences, particularly in images such as Der Aufbau der zentralasiatischen Sowjetrepubliken (1927). The influence remains in Worpswede amongst particular sculptures, and market performances. Gallery References External links 1872 births 1942 deaths Artists from Bremen Communist Party of Germany politicians Communist Workers' Party of Germany politicians 19th-century German painters 19th-century male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century male artists Modern painters German emigrants to the Soviet Union German pacifists German Army personnel of World War I Art Nouveau illustrators