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…
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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…
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…
Who lived & worked here?Friedrich Kallmorgen, Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Gustav Kampmann, Otto Fikentscher, Karl Biese, Franz Hein, Jenny Fikentscher, Franz and Susanne Dewald, Helmut Lingg, Waltraud…
The painter’s colony in Kronberg was one of the earliest in Germany in the 19th century. About 60 artists painted here for several years. The…
What a wonderful and incredibly beautiful setting, the countryside outside of Bremen. Dötlingen is influenced by the river Hunte and is home to a thousand…
At the end of 19th, beginning of 20th century, the market town of Dachau – located just outside Munich – gave artists inspiration for their…
Fascinated by the beauty of the sky and the landscape of the Teufelsmoor, young painters started to settle in the artist’s colony of Worpswede. What…