Schwalenberg

Already in the late 19th Century, the small medieval town of Schwalenberg became, due to the beauty of the landscape, the quiet harmony and the extraordinary light conditions, a favourite place for impressionist landscape painters. Painters from Düsseldorf, Berlin and other cities came to Schwalenberg for plein-air painting.

Zweeloo

In July 1882, a well dressed gentleman arrived in Zweeloo in Drenthe. He is a German, from Berlin, of Jewish background and wealthy. His name is Max Liebermann.

Prien am Chiemsee

The Chiemsee was one of the most important artists places in Germany. In 80s of he 19. century the artist Hugo Kauffmann discovered the place Prien am Chiemsee and settled. He founded one of the doughter-colonies of Frauenchiemsee.

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.

Szentendre

As a result of the Treaty of Trianon after Worldwar I the artists colony of Nagybánya was no longer part of Hungary. Tibor Boromisza and others discovered Szentendre to be more than a substitute. The artist's colony was founded in 1926. In 1929 the artists moved to a house at Deák ference Street, which became the main place for the artists for a long period.
In 1969 a new artists colonie was founded by the Hungarian state.

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.

The village of about 1600 inhabitants lies between the Rambouillet forest on the north and farmland on the south.

This unique and very picturesque setting has attracted many artists as early as the beginning of the 19^thcentury.

Sklarska Poreba

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Schwaan

As many north german places Schwaan is of slavic origin and it's foundation owes around 1230 to the favorable position between Warnow and Beke. The town lay at an historic crossing of a trading road over the Warnow river and soon developed to a respectable city.

Usedom

Usedom as an island for artists - In the thirties of last century the artists Otto Manigk, Otto Niemeyer-Holstein, Karen Schacht ...

Önningeby

The Önningeby Artists’ Colony was founded in 1886 by the Finnish landscape painter Victor Westerholm, at the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea.

Moret-sur-Loing

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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.

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.

Willingshausen

The Schwälmer Willingshäuser Malerkolonie is the oldest artists' colony in Europe.

Hiddensee

‟Visitors to Hiddensee have included poetesses, poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, actors and other artists without number. Men with the most renowned names in every area of learning and culture.“ Gerhard Hauptmann