Katwijk

In the 1850's, Katwijk was home to the painter Jozef Israels. However, the artists' colony did not reach its peak until 1880, which lasted until 1910. The hard, unspoiled and intensive fishermen's life was a great source of inspiration from artists from all over the world. After the period of Romanticism, most painters applied a realistic or naturalistic style until a new generation stood up and brought a trace of Modernism to the village.

Kazimierz Dolny

Kazimierz Dolny, situated on the bank of the Vistula River, is one of the most charming quaint towns in Poland.

Balestrand

Faaborg

A complete art experience since 1915.
Faaborg Museum is a Gesamtkunstwerk featuring painting, sculpture, architecture, and furniture design – and the overall interactive result is extraordinary. The stunning building boasts magnificent mosaic floors, impressive walls in striking colours, columns, and a multitude of corridors and rooms. Altogether a complete experience sure to kindle your fascination. This goes for the history of the museum, too, which is anything but ordinary.

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.

Auvers-sur-Oise

During the 19th century, a number of painters lived and worked in Auvers-sur-Oise, including Paul Cézanne, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Vincent van Gogh.

Murnau am Staffelsee

In 1908, after a journey through Europe and North Africa, the artists Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, members of the first modernistic association, the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM), first came to Murnau a. Staffelsee, together with Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. They enjoyed their stay and felt inspired by the beautiful landscape.

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.

Dangast

Dangast occupies a special position within the classic artist colonies.

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. 

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.

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.

Gödöllö

Over the past Gödöllö has been enriched by famous people and their deeds: Antal Grassalkovich I. made it a place often visited by royal guests.

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.

Heikendorf

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