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Hiddensee

A small island in the Baltic Sea, Germany
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Home to the Union of Hiddensee Lady Artists

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 skies dotted with clouds above your head and endless views do the trick. No noise, just the calm space to create in. Hiddensee’s visitors included poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, actors and other artists. Gerhart Hauptmann, poet, dramatist, Nobel prize laureate and one of the most loyal visitors to the island definitely recognised the Hiddensee appeal.

Among the visitors were the painters Henni Lehmann, Julie Wolfthorn, Käthe Löwenthal, Elisabeth Büchsel, Clara Arnheim, Elisabeth Andrae and Dorothea Stroschein. In 1919 these, together with other women painters, founded the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund (Union of Hiddensee Lady Artists). An exceptional association at the time! With its more than hundred-year artistic and cultural history, Hiddensee has become a thriving part of German culture. The town is still very much alive as a cultural hub, offering exhibitions in the local Heimatmuseum and in the Asta Nielsen House, recitals on the Schuke organ in the island’s church, puppet-plays in the Seebühne (Theatre-by-the-sea), concerts and readings in the Gerhart Hauptmann House, in the Groot Partie and in the Henni Lehmann House – we could go on and on!

The main artists who lived and worked here:

Antonie Biel (*1830 – 1880)
Oskar Kruse (*1847 – 1919)
Henni Lehmann (*1863 – 1937)
Julie Wolfthorn (*1864 – 1944)
Clara Arnheim (*1865 – 1942)
Elisabeth Büchsel (*1867 – 1957)
Emil Orlik (*1870 – 1932)
Katharina Bamberg (*1873 – 1966)
Felix Krause (*1873 – 1925)
Elisabeth Andrae (*1876 – 1945)
Käthe Loewenthal (*1878 – 1942)
Harold Bengen (*1879 – 1962)
Alexander Kanoldt (*1881 – 1939)
Dora Stroschein (*1883 – 1967)
Ivo Hauptmann (*1886 – 1973)
Willy Jaeckel (*1888 – 1944)
Max Kaus (*1891 – 1977)
Walter Gramatté (*1897 – 1929)
Tom Beyer (*1907 – 1981)
Eggert Gustavs (*1909 – 1996)
Günter Fink (*1913 – 2000)
Gisela Peschke (*1942 – 1993)

Tourist-Office
Insel Information Hiddensee
Achtern Diek 18a
18565 Vitte / Hiddensee
+49 (0)38300 608685
info@seebad-hiddensee.de
www.seebad-hiddensee.de
Mayor
Thomas Gens
c/o Ulrike Landwehr
Norderende 162
18565 Vitte / Hiddensee
+49 (0)38300 64212
andwehr@seebad-hiddensee.de
landwehr@seebad-hiddensee.de
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus
Kirchweg 13
18565 Kloster
+49 (0)38300 397
www.hauptmannhaus.de
Heimatmuseum Hiddensee
Kirchweg 1
18565 Kloster
+49 (0)38300 363
www.heimatmuseum-hiddensee.de
Asta-Nielsen-Haus
Zum Seglerhafen 7
18565 Vitte
+49 (0)38300 64229
www.asta-nielsen-haus.de
Eggert Gustavs Museum
Am Bau 12
18565 Kloster / Seebad Insel Hiddensee
+49 (0)38300 605665
www.eggert-gustavs.de
Henni-Lehmann-Haus / Haus des Gastes
Wiesenweg 2
18565 Vitte
+49 (0)38300 60760
www.seebad-hiddensee.de
Blaue Scheune
Norderende 175
18565 Vitte
Homunkulus Figurensammlung
Norderende 181
18565 Vitte
+49 (0)38300 60593
www.homunkulus.de
Groot Partie
Königsbarg 8
18565 Neuendorf
+49 (0)38300 64229
www.seebad-hiddensee.de
Galerie am Torbogen
Über Evangelische Kirchgemeinde Hiddensee
Kirchweg 42
18565 Kloster
+49 (0)38300 328
www.kirche-hiddensee.de
Galerie Dwarslöper
Kirchweg 26
18565 Kloster
+49 (0)38300 60429
www.kloster-hiddensee.de
Galerie und Café Hedins Oe
Mühlberg 43
18565 Kloster
+49 (0)38300 273
Atelier und Galerie Ulrike Northing
Norderende 162
18565 Vitte
+49 (0)177 6660889
www.ulrike-northing.de