Sint-Martens-Latem

The landscape around the river Leie has been an inspiration to artists in particular from the last quarter of the 19^th century.

Worpswede

“Worpswede, Worpswede . . . it is a wonderland!", Paula Becker wrote in her diary in 1897 and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke enthused about a "sky of indescribable variability and grandeur”. To the present day artists and visitors interested in art and culture are captivated by the charm of Worpswede and its sandy hill - the "Weyerberg". Birch trees line the streets into the village, situated 25 km north-east of Bremen, in the midst of the expansive, picturesque “Teufelsmoor” [Devil's Moor] with river Hamme and its lowlands.

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.

Nunspeet

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

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.

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.

Oosterbeek

Echoing the Barbizon naturalist tradition, the village of Oosterbeek, situated on the outskirts of the Veluwe, became a home to one of the first Dutch artists’ colonies

Cernay la ville

Cernay-la-Ville is situated at about 45 km south-west of Paris and about 20 km south of Versailles in the Chevreuse Valley area.

Barbizon

In the forest of Fontainebleau near Paris the first artists’ colony came into being. 

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.

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.

Moret-sur-Loing

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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”.

Balestrand