Erik Hoffmann: Autobiography – Painting Life As a painter, Erik Hoffmann approaches the world by portraying it in an autoethnographic sense. His subjects, broadly understood,…
Author: Birte Hölscher
STAR THAT CARRIES YOUR NAME / Gašper Kunšič With his exhibition Star that carries your name, Gašper Kunšič gives the interior of the Kunsthalle Willingshausen…
Frauke Gloyer – Clouds, Weather, and the Light of the Sea Born in Flensburg, Frauke Gloyer studied Art and Fine Painting at the Braunschweig University…
The Second Glance / der zweite Blick Helga Neuber moved with her family from Halle (Saale) to Oldenburg at the age of 10. She learned…
Anneliese Schöfbeck. Malerei und Grafik. Anneliese Schöfbeck is one of the most significant artistic personalities of Mecklenburg. This exhibition presents the work of an artist…
Erik Hoffmann: Autobiography – Painting Life As a painter, Erik Hoffmann approaches the world by portraying it in an autoethnographic sense. His subjects, understood in…
Hedwig Holtz-Sommer – What really matters is humanity (Auf das Menschliche kommt es an) From 12 October 2025, the Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop will present paintings, watercolors,…
HANS BRASS – Transformations Hans Brass (1885–1959) is among the underestimated artistic figures of classical modernism. His life and work are closely connected with the…
Seven at One Blow / Sieben auf einen Streich 25 Years of the Heikendorf Artists’ Museum The title recalls one of the Grimm fairy tales…
SKAGEN – ART FROM THE TIP / SKAGEN – KUNST VON DER SPITZE Works from the LARS Collection The Skagen Artists’ Colony is the best-known…
Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions. The indivisible sky Section Worpsweder Kunsthalle:Free and independent. Ottilie Reylaender Ottilie Reylaender came to Worpswede as a painting student in…
Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions. The indivisible sky Section Haus im Schluh:Liberated muse. Martha Vogeler The connection to Paula Modersohn-Becker is a source of inspiration,…
Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions. The indivisible sky Section Große Kunstschau: Creating the future. Contemporaries then and now Paula Modersohn-Becker shared the goal of becoming…
Paula Modersohn-Becker and her companions. The indivisible sky Section Barkenhoff:Kindred spirits. Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff The exhibition at the Barkenhoff shows the artistic and…
Nida, artists’ colony in Lithuania Admire the dune landscapes, the ‘Italian’ light and come face to face with the fishermen of this Baltic peninsula, captured…
This catalog is published for the exhibition ‘Bettina Heinen-Ayech – from Solingen to the Orient’ at the Kunstverein Coburg e.V. from 25 January 2025 to…
De kunstenaar Jozef Posenaer 1876-1935 / Der Künstler Jozef Posenaer 1876-1935 The exhibition Licht, Ruimte en Harmonie (26.05 – 05.10.2025) is accompanied by a bilingual…
LIGHT, SPACE AND HARMONY – DE KUNSTENAAR JOZEF POSENAER 1876-1935LICHT, RUIMTE EN HARMONIE – THE ARTIST JOZEF POSENAER 1876-1935 In 2014, the MTVP Museum Domburg…
Olevano Romano is a little town near Rome. Surrounded by the Tiburtini, Ruffi and Simbruini mountains, and also located at an altitude of about 600…
The M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, situated in the very centre of Lithuania, in the city of Kaunas, is one of the oldest…
Raise the Roof. Nevin Aladağ internationally renowned installation and performance artist Dear friends of the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, From June 29, 2025 to February 1, 2026,…
Traveling the world. The Solingen Artists´ColonyCatalogue for the exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie Dachau from October 31, 2024, to April 27, 2025.80 pages with numerous illustrations,Dachau…
MARIANNE VON WEREFKIN 1860-1938 With versatile know-how in the background, Van Vloten’s personal quest for Marianne von Werefkin reads like a novel but is step…
Known since the neolithic times, Bourron mainly draws its fame from the intense artistic presence that marked the 19th century. Around 1830, Caruelle d’Aligny and…
The Museumsberg Flensburg is located high above the northernmost city in Germany on the border with Denmark. In two buildings you can discover the art…
Despite the fact that the three medieval villages Egmond aan Zee, Egmond aan den Hoef, and Egmond‐Binnen had been visited and painted by artists such…
Dr. Ruth Negendanck When it came to documenting the art-historical dimension of the Frauenchiemsee artists’ colony, it was quickly recognised that there was no art-historically…
Tervuren. The Belgian artists’ colonyCatalogue of the exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie Dachau 20.10.2023 – 10.3.2024,64 S. with numerous imagesDachau 2023ISBN 978-3-949683-05-317.– Euro
THE BLUE RIDER – A TRIBUTE / DER BLAUE REITER – EINE HOMMAGE A gift for the 30th anniversary! On 1 July 2023, the 30th…
Jamlitz in Lower Lusatia, owned by the Lieberose Counts von der Schulenburg from 1622 to 1945, was at the turn of the last century a…
Study trips by the Charlottenburg painting school of Franz Lippisch, a co-founder of the Berlin Secession, gave rise to a small artists’ colony in Jamlitz/Lower…
Hinaus ins Freie! (Out into the open!) Author: Jutta Leyendecker “Green boys” was the name given to the painters at the Baden Art School in…
In the late 19th century, the village of Grez-sur-Loing, 70 kilometers south of Paris along the river Loing, was a buzzing artists’ community. Known for…
This trilingual publication accompanies the exhibition Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923). Artist and Source of Inspiration | A small Tribute, organised by the Museum Domburg and…
Artists’ Association Murnau e.V. – Community Studio TUSCULUM, Murnau am StaffelseeArtistic studio, course location and producer gallery The artists’ association Murnau e.V. – Atelier TUSCULUM…
Digitale Sommerausstellung: Rückblick und Ausblick
Francisca van Vloten Artists have traditionally roamed Walcheren, attracted by the pristine beauty of nature, the special light along the coast and its reflection on…
Francisca van Vloten No. 1 of the ICEAC Book Series entails the thoroughgoing research for a real or fake painting by Piet Mondrian. On Saturday,…
Artist’s colonies arose in Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century quite independently of each other, although almost at the same time. They…
Kronberg, one of the most important German artists’ colonies, is located near Frankfurt am Main. Its founder is the painter Anton Burger (1824-1905), who settled…
In the second half of the 19th century – as in many small places scattered all over Europe – an artists’ colony also developed in…
After the rediscovery of the Blue Grotto in 1826, the Mediterranean island of Capri became a sought-after destination, especially for the Romantics. Generations of painters…
As early as the 17th century, artists visited the small village of Katwijk on the North Sea. They painted the atmospheric landscape, the beach, the…
Like no other art movement before it, plein airism brought artists into intensive contact with the landscape, the local population, their culture and living conditions.…
The “Black House” in Solingen owes its origins not to enthusiasm for a special landscape or as a retreat into a special, even untouched nature,…
In 2002, combining her academic training and her passion for art and music, Francesca Di Ponzio founded the C.L.A.M. International Association. Subsequently, in order to…
The Overbeck-Museum is an art museum in Bremen, Germany, dedicated to the works of Fritz Overbeck and his wife, Hermine Overbeck-Rohte, who both belonged to…
A complete art experience since 1915 Faaborg Museum is a Gesamtkunstwerk featuring painting, sculpture, architecture, and furniture design – and the overall result is extraordinary.…
Since 1875, the fishing village of Ekensund on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord has become a favorite place for painters from all art…
The artist colony Önningeby was founded by the well-known Finnish landscape painter Victor Westerholm (1860–1919), who studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and attended the…
In 1919 the Dachau artist group emerged from the “Council of Intellectual Workers”. It included 44 artists who stayed in Dachau after the First World…
At possibly one of the most stunning spots in between mountains and the Sognefjord, the popular town of Balestrand had no lack of visitors. The…
Author Sergei Aksakov started inviting other writers and artists to the colony at Ambramtsevo as his guests. Under Aksakov, the artists talked about ways of…
Throughout history, the town of Gödöllö was visited by many famous people and royals, such as Queen Elisabeth (Sisi), who wandered there finding spiritual refuge.…
The beautiful fishing village of Nida – which Germans named Nidden at the birth of the artists’ colony – is situated in the extraordinary landscape…
Chiusa/Klausen rose to become the “city of artists” because of an incisive event in literature and history. The Vogelweide farm in nearby Lajener Ried was…
The Önningeby Artists’ Colony was founded in 1886 by the Finnish landscape painter Victor Westerholm, at the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea. Önningeby attracted…
In the summer of 1882 Max Liebermann, a well-dressed young man from Berlin, accompanied by his Dutch friend, the painter Jozef Israëls arrived in the…
Today, Volendam is a renowned tourist destination in the Netherlands, nestled along the waterfront and close to Amsterdam. Its charm as a traditional fishing village,…
After the success of the Oosterbeek colony, and with the industrialisation of cities like Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the artists drawn to landscape painting were looking…
Part of the Barbizon naturalist tradition, the small and picturesque village of Oosterbeek became home to one of the first Dutch artists’ colonies. Situated between…
In the words of writer Jac P. Thijsse: “The Jansberg near Mook, with its immediate surroundings is, botanically, one of the richest landscapes in the…
Seaside resorts seem to attract artists by their very nature. In Domburg the attraction was enhanced by the unspoilt beauty of the surroundings, the special…
After the colony of Barbizon came to life in France, more European artists followed suit. The artists’ colony of Tervuren was founded in the woods…
Genk today is nothing like what it looked like at the start of one of Belgium’s most beloved artists’ colonies in 1840. Today, the city…
Living and working in a big city like Ghent can overwhelm the senses. In Sint-Martens-Latem, artists looked for a more peaceful and silent landscape. Such…
The origins of the village of Champion go back to the Gallo-Roman period. In 1836, a classical-style castle was bought by the Congregation of the…
Formerly a walled town, the picturesque medieval village and artists’ colony of Moret-sur-Loing inspired many impressionist artists and painters, such as Alfred Sisley, who spent…
It’s a privilege to learn a craft at the art academy, but it’s not always the only way. Barbizon was created as an act of…
Cernay-la-Ville lies in the centre of beautiful forest and outstretched farmland, a unique and picturesque landscape calling out to be painted. Because of the arrival…
In the 1890s, Paul Hoecker, then a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, regularly met with his students in Holzhausen, a picturesque…
The artistic discovery of Lake Chiemsee began at the end of the 18th century, when Johann Georg von Dillis (1759-1841) created the first views of…
Murnau am Staffelsee is a love story. In 1908, after a journey through Europe and North Africa, artists Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, members of…
Darmstadt is known for several cultural greats: modern architecture, impressive churches, and Jugendstil. As the centre of the Art Nouveau movement, Darmstadt functioned as a…
The Schwälmer Willingshäuser Malerkolonie is the oldest artists’ colony in Europe. It was a happy coincidence, but also a personal misfortune, that an artists’ colony…
Impressionist artists flocked to Schieder-Schwalenberg because of the harmony of the medieval town, surrounded by quiet hilly landscapes and invested with beautiful light. Painters from…
From 1919-1921, politically active intellectuals and artists lived and worked in Simonskall in the municipality of Hürtgenwald near the city of Düren. Situated in a…
As an artistic studio and producer gallery, Malwerk offers a wide range of services and products. The focus is on workshops, courses and artistic commissions…
Fishermen’s village Ferch is a tiny town on the southwestern end of Lake Schwielowsee, which kept its cute rural character into the late 20th century.…
On the 17 km narrow fjord on the border of Denmark, close to the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, the small town of Heikendorf…
The artist’s colony of Usedom was founded a bit later than many of the colonies of the time, but was no less popular. Nearly 30…
Together with Ahrenshoop and Schwaan, Hiddensee counts as one of the North German artists‘ colonies. On a small and intimate island like this, wide blue…
Whether it’s sculptures, literature, film, music, theatre or paintings you’re looking for, Ahrenshoop will always be inviting. Right near the wild edges and cliffs of…
The small Mecklenburg town of Schwaan is nestled between the rivers Warnow and Beke, surrounded by rolling hills and vast fields. Important painters succumbed to…
Imagine taking your pencils, your brushes and your easel and setting up your studio near the beach for the summer. To the painters of “Die…