Nida / Nidden

The beautiful fishing village of Nida - at the birth of the artists' colony German called Nidden - is situated in the extraordinary landscape of the Kurische Nehrung.

Tervuren

The artists’ colony of Tervuren (Flanders, Belgium) was founded in de woods near Brussels around 1860, after the colony of Barbizon (France). Freeing themselves from academic restrictions, young Belgian artists like Camille Van Camp (who also worked in Domburg in The Netherlands), Joseph Coosemans, Jules Montigny and in particular Hippolyte Boulenger painted their surroundings en plein air.

Dachau

Once the seat of counts, then a mediaeval market town, summer residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty and since 1973 main municipality of the district – the town of Dachau can look back on a twelve-hundred year history.

Balestrand

Ahrenshoop

Enclosed by two waters, connecting two land strips, formed by contrasts, a sea resort and an artists’ village – this is Ahrenshoop. No matter what season, Ahrenshoop will always invite you to encounter art. It might be paintings or sculptures, literature or film, music or theatre what you are looking for – Ahrenshoop’s galleries, art houses and studios, but also its hotels and bed and breakfast places make offers on the highest level.

Dötlingen

A very important part of Doetlingen is the wonderful and incredibly beautiful nature and countryside which is influenced by the river Hunte. The "Thousand year old Oak Tree" of Doetlingen has been admired by many throughout the centuries.

Moret-sur-Loing

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Kronberg im Taunus

The painter’s colony in Kronberg was one of the most earliest of the German painter’s colonies of the 19th century. Altogether 60 artists worked, over several years, in the Kronberg painter’s colony including such well known names as Wilhelm Trübner, Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann, Hans Thoma or Carl Morgenstern. Anton Burger’s move to Kronberg in 1858 is associated today with the foundation of the Kronberg artist’s colony.

Chiusa / Klausen

Chiusa/Klausen rose to become the “city of artists” in the late ’70s of the 19thcentury due to an incisive event in literature and history.

Grötzingen

The history of the Grötzingen artists’ colony began in 1889 with the purchase of a summer house by Friedrich Kallmorgen. A short time later animal painter Otto Fikentscher bought the Augustenburg, a castle formerly belonging to the margraves of Baden, and took up residence there with his wife Jenny. Other Karlsruhe painters – Gustav Kampmann, Franz Hein and Karl Biese – soon joined them with their families. The Grötzingen painters maintained artistic ties to nearby Karlsruhe, at that time the residence of the rulers of Baden, and were among the founding members of the Karlsruher Künstlerbund (Association of Karlsruhe Artists), a secessionist group founded in 1896.

Nunspeet

At a time when industry and urbanisation was emerging, they discovered the beauty of the countryside and of living close to nature.

Edam-Volendam

In there quest for traditional situations to paint, many artists discovered Volendam in the late 19th, early 20th century. They were in fact the first tourists in Volendam and it’s thanks to Leendert Spaander and his wife Aaltje that the village developed as a real “artist colony”.

Genck

From 1840’s onwards the small Kempen town of Genck became one of the most beloved artist villages in Belgium. Between 1840 and 1940, hundreds of painters visited Genck to capture the scenery on canvas. 

Ferch

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Domburg

In the 1870’s the Belgian artists Emile Claus, Camille Van Camp and Euphrosine Beernaert spent a couple of summers on the isle of Walcheren, Zealand. With many other guests they stayed at the country house of the wealthy Belgian industrialist Emile De Harven near Domburg and made the isle the subject of their works. A real artists’ colony, however, was not formed until the turn of the century.