On the weekend of the artists ‘ village known place celebrates its Worpswede near Bremen 800-year anniversary. The number of artists ‘ studios, museums and art associations in Worpswede is remarkable.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Haymaking on the Moor” (1910)
Vast landscapes, endless skies and the light of the industrialization and technical progress and the many artists to Worpswede curls. In 1889, they founded there a colony of artists. Where else can moor farmers with peat barges through the canals, want to live the drop-out in community and work. Otto Modersohn, from which this image comes, is a co-founder.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Self-portrait in front of flowering trees” (1903)
Paula Modersohn-Becker, here’s a self-portrait, visited for a Sunday outing to the village in the devil’s moor near Bremen. Impressed by the seclusion of the new artists ‘ colony, she decides to stay. In the case of Fritz Mackensen, one of the founders of the artists ‘ colony, she takes drawing and painting lessons. The painter Otto Modersohn will marry her later.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Marksmen in Worpswede” (1904)
With its expressionist painting, for which Paula uses like peasant motifs, the artist Paula modersohn-Becker in their time. Don’t like it all: Rainer Maria Rilke, married the Worpswede sculptor Clara Westhoff, describes the fellow artist in a letter as “reckless, straight painting”. Today, Paula is considered to be a pioneer of the Modern.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Weyersberg with summer clouds” (1899)
Where previously the landscape painter Hans at the end – worked a painting of him, there is now a Hotel and on the terrace coffee-pot and cream cake. Hans at the end lived right next to the Barkenhoff, Heinrich Vogeler to the center of the artist colony to expand. In Vogelers art Nouveau-style images of Worpswede shows up more in bright colors.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Evening on the Moors” (1900)
At the art Academy Carl learns Vinnen (image), Mackensen and Modersohn. They founded the Association of artists of Worpswede, to present the art of the colony better in Public. As Paula Modersohn 1899 leaves the village, goes away also Vinnen. Vogeler converts for the Communists, Mackensen sympathizes with racial, anti-Semitic organizations – the community is crumbling.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Evening on the Moor” (1896)
Not all who come to Worpswede to Paint, stay there. Fritz Overbeck is persuaded by Otto modersohn, to be a member of the artists ‘ colony. After almost ten years of the painter pulls away in 1905, but again – there are too many visitors come to him in the village. The tourist hustle and bustle interferes with his work, in pictures such as this from the evening Moor in Worpswede.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“The concert, or the summer evening at Barkenhoff” (1905)
This painting from 1905 is the most famous work of Heinrich Vogeler. What looks at first glance to the Idyll, as a Swan song to the artists ‘ colony of interpret: relations between the Painted are hard to distinguish. The community of the first Generation of artists in Worpswede was broken already. Today, around 130 artists live in the 5000 inhabitants of the place.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Haymaking on the Moor” (1910)
Vast landscapes, endless skies and the light of the industrialization and technical progress and the many artists to Worpswede curls. In 1889, they founded there a colony of artists. Where else can moor farmers with peat barges through the canals, want to live the drop-out in community and work. Otto Modersohn, from which this image comes, is a co-founder.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Self-portrait in front of flowering trees” (1903)
Paula Modersohn-Becker, here’s a self-portrait, visited for a Sunday outing to the village in the devil’s moor near Bremen. Impressed by the seclusion of the new artists ‘ colony, she decides to stay. In the case of Fritz Mackensen, one of the founders of the artists ‘ colony, she takes drawing and painting lessons. The painter Otto Modersohn will marry her later.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Marksmen in Worpswede” (1904)
With its expressionist painting, for which Paula uses like peasant motifs, the artist Paula modersohn-Becker in their time. Don’t like it all: Rainer Maria Rilke, married the Worpswede sculptor Clara Westhoff, describes the fellow artist in a letter as “reckless, straight painting”. Today, Paula is considered to be a pioneer of the Modern.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Weyersberg with summer clouds” (1899)
Where previously the landscape painter Hans at the end – worked a painting of him, there is now a Hotel and on the terrace coffee-pot and cream cake. Hans at the end lived right next to the Barkenhoff, Heinrich Vogeler to the center of the artist colony to expand. In Vogelers art Nouveau-style images of Worpswede shows up more in bright colors.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Evening on the Moors” (1900)
At the art Academy Carl learns Vinnen (image), Mackensen and Modersohn. They founded the Association of artists of Worpswede, to present the art of the colony better in Public. As Paula Modersohn 1899 leaves the village, goes away also Vinnen. Vogeler converts for the Communists, Mackensen sympathizes with racial, anti-Semitic organizations – the community is crumbling.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“Evening on the Moor” (1896)
Not all who come to Worpswede to Paint, stay there. Fritz Overbeck is persuaded by Otto modersohn, to be a member of the artists ‘ colony. After almost ten years of the painter pulls away in 1905, but again – there are too many visitors come to him in the village. The tourist hustle and bustle interferes with his work, in pictures such as this from the evening Moor in Worpswede.
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Artists ‘ colony Worpswede: From a farming village to the source of inspiration
“The concert, or the summer evening at Barkenhoff” (1905)
This painting from 1905 is the most famous work of Heinrich Vogeler. What looks at first glance to the Idyll, as a Swan song to the artists ‘ colony of interpret: relations between the Painted are hard to distinguish. The community of the first Generation of artists in Worpswede was broken already. Today, around 130 artists live in the 5000 inhabitants of the place.
It is small, with art, eye-catchers: Worpswede, peppered, and rich in architectural and landscape. The locality in the outskirts of Bremen is celebrating this weekend your 800. Birthday.
“Worpensweede” was originally the Name of the long period of secluded settlement from eight large farms, which were mentioned in 1218, for the first time in a document. This has to be celebrated, especially in the old town around the thatched-roof town hall.
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Inspiring LandscapesArtists ‘ Colony Of Worpswede
A representative cross-section of the most beautiful works by the Worpswede painters will be shown today at the barkenhoff. At that time, the yard was the Central meeting place for the community of artists. They dared not only artistic Expermente, but tested also forms more free, alternative life. Among the artists, including Paula Modersohn-Becker, Fritz Overbeck, Carl Vinnen.
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Inspiring LandscapesThe Devil’s Moor
Worpswede is situated in the middle of the Teufelsmoors, a brittle landscape with unconventional beauty, not far from Bremen. The place is popular for the artists ‘ colony that was founded here in 1889. The longing for rural motifs and simple peasant life, the representatives of art Nouveau, impressionism, and expressionism in Worpswede as an artistic home to United.
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Inspiring LandscapesThe Elbe Sandstone mountains
The painters of the 18th century. Century, discovered in the Central mountains, Southeast of Dresden. They kept gorges, bizarre rocks and deep, the wide plains with their immense blackboard to mountains in their works. You the artistic avant-garde of Europe followed and made the Saxon Switzerland permanently to a place of longing of the romantics.
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Inspiring LandscapesRomantic Transfiguration
In 1786 the Swiss Adrian Zingg immortalized in this image, a striking rock arch in the Elbe Sandstone mountains. The painter was a pioneer of Dresden romanticism. In his landscape representations great Detail joyfulness and romantic Transfiguration. The place in picture is called the cowshed, and is now part of the Malerwegs that opens up the landscape for tourism.
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Inspiring LandscapesRügen
On the Baltic sea coast one of the most important painter and draughtsman of German Early romanticism grew up on: Caspar David Friedrich. Even as a young man he was fond of the landscape of his homeland. Again and again it moved the artists on the island of Rügen, with its rays of white chalk cliffs. Rügen is the largest German island, parts of the landscape are a UNESCO world heritage site.
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Inspiring LandscapesIdealized Nature
The cliffs inspired Caspar David Friedrich in 1818 to this painting. Today it is one of the most important works of German romanticism. Like many of his contemporaries, Friedrich in the nature of a retreat, he idealized in his paintings. Still puzzled about where exactly to Friedrich, this Motive has been painted, because the Erosion has changed the Cretaceous rocks permanently.
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Inspiring LandscapesThe Blue Country
Mountains, moorlands and lakes is the Region around Murnau, which is also called the blue country. In 1908, Wassily Kandinsky and his companion Gabriele Münter discover this idyllic landscape. Here Kandinsky founds the artists ‘ group “der Blaue Reiter”.
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Inspiring LandscapesThe Blue Rider
With bold colors like in this painting of 1909 Kandinsky the Bavarian landscape is a monument. In Murnau, which he referred to as a “happy hideout,” he says to his expressionist style of painting, and begins the path in the abstraction.
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Inspiring LandscapesA garden on lake Wannsee
In his summer house on the shore of lake Wannsee in Berlin, the painter Max Liebermann, the hustle and bustle of the big city and fled. His garden, which was designed according to his ideas, he loved above all. In the upper floor of the Villa’s Studio was better. The garden and Villa are motifs in many of his impressionist works.
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Inspiring LandscapesMaster of light
Liebermann was one of the most important representatives of German impressionism. Over 200 works at the Wannsee. About 40 of his paintings are now shown in the Liebermann-Villa. The exhibition focuses on his garden in the interplay of light. Since 2006, the Villa is open to the Public as a Museum accessible.
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Inspiring LandscapesNorth German Wide
In the small town of Seebüll, near the border to Denmark, Emil Nolde and his wife created a private retreat with a house, Studio and large garden. The garden was a real subject and Inspiration for many of Nolde’s color-intensive Aqua. Emil Nolde was a German painter of the expressionism.
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Inspiring LandscapesExpressionist Lights
The cottage gardens with their lush flower beds was fascinated by Nolde, as well as the moods of light over the marsh landscape in the North. In his watercolors, he brings the essence of the landscape to Shine. When Viewing one thinks to be more likely to be in the Sunny South than in the often grey North.
Productions by professional actors in historical costumes, to historical documents-Handover once again to life. Performances with a unique blend of device to illuminate the medieval world as it was for the life of the Worpsweder centuries ago typical. Be demonstrated, among other things, fishing, animal husbandry and textile manufacture. An open-air exhibition presents the milestones in the local history.
Worpswede is in the world today as an artist village. “Worpswede as a place is unique, not only in Germany,” says Jörg van den Berg, the Artistic Director of the local Kunsthalle. “Where else is there a 5000-inhabitant town with a Museum of its own landscape and its own art history?”
Around 130 years ago, three young painters from Düsseldorf had spent in the small village North of Bremen, your holiday and in the wide horizon and the harsh landscape of Worpswede in love. In 1889, they founded an artists ‘ colony.
Painting “summer evening” or “The concert” (1905) by Heinrich Vogeler
The Barkenhoff was the creative center of the place. The artist and socialist, Heinrich Vogeler had bought the old Farmer’s cottage in 1895, and in the art Nouveau style transformed. He was one of the first, followed by the colony founders, Fritz Mackensen, Hans am ende and Otto modersohn and Worpswede.
Artist house “cheese bell” from 1926 in Worpswede
The number of artists ‘ studios, museums and art societies in this place is remarkable. Still work in Worpswede painter, sculptor and graphic artist. “Worpswede is a vibrant artists’ colony,” says the cultural representative Klaudia Krohn. Around 130 artists and artisans living in the community. You continue what the founders started back in the village, as they made the landscape and the vast sky to a source of their art.
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