Imprint / Eindruck The printing workshop of the Dachau Artists’ Association wants to leave an impression and will be presenting a variety of projects this…
Author: Birte Hölscher
KUNSTGERECHT / L`ARTE A REGOLA D`ARTE – Art exhibition with works by South Tyrolean and Trentino artists from the collection of the Autonomous Region of…
Meeting point Worpswede / Treffpunkt Worpswede For years, Worpswede artist Peter-Jörg Splettstößer has been inviting former scholarship holders of the Barkenhoff Foundation Worpswede and artist…
Alina Khrapchynska and friends “The magic of art” / Alina Khrapchynska und Freunde “Die Magie der Kunst” After the great success of the exhibition in…
50th anniversary of the Ahrenshoop art auctions on 3 August 2024 Preview of the auction from 12 July to 2 August 2024 in the Baltic…
euroart Digital Summer Exhibition “Trees” For the third time, euroart organises the Digital Summer Exhibition. This year is particularly special as we celebrate the 30th…
Sabina Swillims – Emotion and colour / Emotion und Farbe The artist, who has lived in Dötlingen – Neerstedt since 1997, loves to express her…
Dirk Pleyer. Aisle / Dirk Pleyer. SchneiseINTERNATIONAL positions in the Robert Koepke House In Pleyer’s painting, idyll and drama are closely intertwined: ascending growth and…
Theo von Brockhusen. A German late impressionist / Theo von Brockhusen. Ein deutscher Spätimpressionist Theo von Brockhusen was born on 16 July 1882 in Marggrabowa…
Egon von Kameke and Hubert Globisch – Paths to Painting / Wege zur Malerei Egon von Kameke and Hubert Globisch registered as painters with the…
The stuff we are made of. Earthly sculptures of the present / Der Stoff, aus dem wir sind. Irdene Bildwerke der Gegenwart Opening on 28.06.…
Arists’ colony Nida – Painting in nature / Künstlerkolonie Nidden – Malen in freier Natur The Curonian Spit is so strange that you might as…
LIGHT AND SKIES! / LICHT EN LUCHTEN! The Belgian Luminist Edmond Verstappen The MTVP Museum Domburg and the ICEAC Domburg are dedicating their 2024 Summer…
Rescuers at Sea / Redders op Zee In the morning, a group of poachers noticed that a fishing vessel, a lugger, had gotten into trouble.…
Autumn academy in Schwalenberg / Herbstakademie in Schwalenberg 14 to 18 October 2024 After our summer academy, additional offers in the field of art can…
In search of traces. Man and the landscape / Auf Spurensuche. Der Mensch und die Landschaft “Back to nature” was the motto of the Barbizon…
Bettina Heinen-Ayech – accepted into the exclusive circle of the most important historical women personalities in north rhine westphalia / Bettina Heinen-Ayech – in den…
Erwin Bowien – an artist in exile in Egmond (1933-1942) The exhibition in the Museum van Egmond sheds light on Bowien´s exile in Holland. The…
ART BY THE RULES OF ART / KUNSTGERECHT / L’ARTE A REGOLA D’ARTE From 22 March to 17 August, the city of Chiusa will be…
Bernhard Hoetger.Between the worlds / Zwischen den Welten Bernhard Hoetger came to Worpswede in 1914 in the footsteps of Paula Modersohn-Becker and, in the 15…
10 Painters of the Veluwezoom – and their regions / 10 Schilders van de Veluwezoom – en hun streken This year provides a unique opportunity…
Critical – Witty – Biting / Kritisch – witzig – bissigPrintmaking from the 1950s to the 1970s Throughout the history of art, printmaking has been…
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…
Heinrich Vogeler – his art, his love, his life / Heinrich Vogeler – seine Kunst, seine Liebe, sein Leben New permanent exhibition in the Haus…
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…
Permanent exhibition About the collection of the Kunstmuseum AhrenshoopToday, the private Ahrenshoop Museum of Art houses in its collection around 1,000 important treasures from the…
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…
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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 big tourist destination in the Netherlands, situated next to the water and close to Amsterdam. Its traditional fishermen’s town status, full…
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…