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Light over Sea and Land, 26.03.2023 – 26.03.2023, Önningeby

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ART facing ART

23.09.2022 – 30.10.2022

Art facing Art is the second in the series of tandem exhibitions organized by our new member/partner CLAM International in Taranto, Italy.

Karl Henckel (1881 1950), Waldeingang, Öl auf Leinwand, o.J., Sammlung Städtische Galerie Schwalenberg Foto: Ulrich Heinemann, Detmold

What attracted so many artists from the big cities to the small town of Schwalenberg over 100 years ago? How did they see and paint the landscape and the town? Why did Schwalenberg become an artists' colony? The exhibition explores these and other questions and shows works of landscape and...

Nunspeet: Ben Viegers, alive and kicking!

26.07.2022 – 08.01.2023
Nunspeet

ben Viegers finds new inspiration in the Veluwe landscape. With eagerness he translates the wealth of subjects he finds there in vivid paintings with a powerful touch into a warm palette

STUBBORN AND STURDY

03.07.2022 – 12.02.2023
Domburg

The Path of Jo Koster (van Hattem) and Dora Koch-Stetter

Light over Sea and Land

26.03.2023 – 26.03.2023
Önningeby

The Önningeby Colony on Åland - as a guest in Stockholm

Max Hampel, Werk aus schwarz-weißer Reihe © M. Hampel

New Artist in Residence in Schwalenberg

Schwalenberg

This year the artist Max Hampel hold the scholarship

Helle Jetzig, Rome Is Where The Heart Is 3, Malerei auf Fotografie, 100 x 150 x 6 cm, 2021, © Helle Jetzig

Schwalenberg 2022

Schwalenberg

Overview of the exhibitions in Schwalenberg 2022

Trips to Artists Colonies

Worpswede, Dormburg and Klausen

Artists Colonies

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.

euroArt: local Museum Prien am Chiemsee © Foto Berger

Sklarska Poreba

under construction

Önningeby

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

euroArt: Winter in the Önningeby village

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.