THE EARLY PERIOD IN WORK OF HEINRICH VOGELER (To the problem of identifying stages in the art of the painter)
The article is devoted to the early period (before the First World War) in the work of one of the most signifi cant German painters of the end of the XIXth - the beginning of the XXth centuries - Heinrich Vogeler. The sphere of particular interest concerns the works of Vogeler which belong to different genres of art: painting, graphics, applied art, interior design and architecture. The article also provides the analysis of the sources and main distinctive features of the art of Vogeler. The early period represents a defi nitive and completed stage in the evolution of his work. During this period Vogeler created his best works of art and the early period determined a special place and role of the painter in German and European art in the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.