Die Künstlerkolonie Heikendorf an der Kieler Förde
(A view to coast and countryside – The Heikendorf Artists’ Colony on the Kiel Fjord)
Authors: Sabine Behrens, Henning Repetzky
ISBN: 978-3-9819370-1-5
Format: 24 cm x 33 cm
Size: 144 pages with numerous coloured illustrations
Hard Cover
Price: 25 €, excl. shipping costs
Language: German. An eight-page summary in English is included.
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Back cover text auf Englisch:
Artists’ colonies – communities of like-minded, often young artists – began to form in the second half of the 19th century in rural villages and small towns near larger cities with good transport links. This was also the case in Heikendorf. The eastern shore of the Kiel Fjord offered, on the one hand, the opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and immerse oneself in nature, and, on the other hand, easy access to distant destinations by train from Kiel. The introductory text places the Heikendorf artists’ colony within the context of the phenomenon of European artists’ colonies.
The Heikendorf artists’ colony got off to a relatively late start. Following in the footsteps of the painters Georg Burmester, who settled in Möltenort shortly before 1900, and Rudolf Behrend, who spent his entire life in Neuheikendorf, Heinrich Blunck and his family purchased the house at Am Teichtor 9 in the early 1920s, which today houses the Heikendorf Artists’ Museum. Werner Lange and his family also set up a studio house in Heikendorf a little later, whilst Oscar Droege from Hamburg lived with his brother in Kitzeberg for many years and produced outstanding colour woodcuts. The sculptor Karin Hertz, who had grown up in Heikendorf, later made her home in Hamburg; however, she also had a studio in Heikendorf. Originally from Berlin, the Kiel-born painter Jeane Flieser spent many summers on the fjord after the Second World War in her little cottage near the old Heikendorf watermill.
The Heikendorf-Kieler Förde Artists’ Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020. A wonderful occasion to publish this richly illustrated overview of the Heikendorf artists’ colony.
