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Worpswede – From the farmer village to the source of inspiration

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.



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.


Productions by professional actors in historical costumes, to historical documents-Handover once again to life.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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