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Ahrenshoop 1813
Ahrenshoop is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea. It used to be a small fishing village, but is today known for its tourism and as a holiday resort. Early history Ahrenshoop was first mentioned in 1311 as the defining point of the border of the town of Ribnitz´s property. In 1328 Duke Heinrich II of Mecklenburg donated the area east of this border to the monastery of Ribnitz. In 1395 forces of the City of Rostock destroyed a stronghold, built by Bogislaw VI. of Pomerania, and the harbour of Ahrenshoop. In 1591 the border between Mecklenburg and Pomerania was defined, which runs through the village, still existing today as the "Grenzweg" (border road). After the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 the Eastern part of the village became part of Swedish Pomerania until 1815, when Sweden ceded Pomerania to Prussia. Until the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin joined the German Zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Germany
MunicipalitiesCountry Compendium. A companion to the English Style Guide European Commission, May 2021, pages 58–59. (german: Gemeinden, ) are the lowest level of official territorial division in . This can be the second, third, fourth or fifth level of territorial division, depending on the status of the municipality and the '''' (federal state) it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Koch-Stetter
Dora Koch-Stetter (4 May 1881 – 16 January 1968) was a German landscape artist, portrait-painter and etcher. Life Dora Stetter already came into contact with art as a child. After the death of her husband and the retreat to Berlin in 1884, her mother led a drawing school there. Her own artistic career began in 1899–1901 with her studies as a drawing teacher at the Royal School of Art in Berlin. This study secured her life support between 1902 and 1917 as a teacher for private pupils in her own studio in Berlin. In order to develop his own skills towards a free-lancing painter, in 1901/02 followed courses in painting and drawing with :de:Conrad Fehr at the art-school, connected to the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, and 1902 painting studies with Johannes Heise. In 1903/04 she was a pupil in the Berlin studio of Lovis Corinth. From 1910 she was working with the Romanian Impressionist painter Arthur Segal. From 1911 she was a member of the ''Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niehagen
Niehagen is a village in the municipality of Ahrenshoop on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula in the German state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. On the steep coast near Althagen/Niehagen lies the Bakelberg knoll. At it is the highest point of Fischland. The sculptor, Gerhard Marcks, lived and worked in Niehagen in the 1930s, at ''Boddenweg 1''. Hof bei Niehagen - geo-en.hlipp.de - 11780.jpg, Farm near Niehagen Niehagen Steilküste Bunker 2013-09-04 11.JPG, Bunker system exposed by coastal erosion Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms. The landward ... on the Hoher Ufer near Niehagen External links Vorpommern-Rügen Villages in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania {{VorpommernRügen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althagen
The village of Althagen on the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been a part of the municipality of Ahrenshoop since 1950. Until 1945, the border between Mecklenburg and Pomerania ran between Althagen and Ahrenshoop along the border road, ''Grenzweg''. The Bakelberg knoll lies close to the steep coast of Althagen/ Niehagen. At 17.9 metres above sea level, it is the highest point on Fischland. Althagen has a port on the bodden coast. at www.ostseebad-ahrenshoop.de. Retrieved 20 Jun 2019 Well known residents of Althagen include the designer, Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875-1948), the writer, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Rettich (painter)
Karl Lorenz Rettich (10 June 1841 – 12 September 1904) was a German landscape artist and draftsman. Life Rettich was born in Rosenhagen near Dassow in Mecklenburg. His father was owner of the manor in this small village near the Bay of Lübeck. The area on the Baltic Sea influenced him at an early age and recover in his later works. Rettich went to high school in Lübeck, then in 1859 to study law in Munich on his fathers request. But he came over to landscape painting and became a pupil of Adolf Heinrich Lier. In 1862 he went to the Düsseldorf school of painting where he was until 1867 a student with Albert Flamm and Theodor Hagen. After living in Dresden 1867-70, he went 1871 to Weimar. There he was at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts for further studies of landscape painting as a student with Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach and also Theodor Hagen. He undertook study trips to Norway, Sweden, as well as Italy. After a few years in Munich (1886-1896) he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wachenhusen
Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Wachenhusen (27 May 1859 – 2 May 1925) was a German landscape artist, draftsman and etcher. The focus of his work was on the countryside of his home region, Mecklenburg. Life At the urging of his father, a Schwerin ministerial secretary, Wachenhusen went after attending high school in Schwerin in 1880 to study architecture at the Polytechnikum Karlsruhe. He moved in 1881 to the Academy in Karlsruhe, to study painting. After the change in 1884 to the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts of Weimar, he continued to study under the landscape painter Theodor Hagen. In 1889 he moved to Berlin, attended the Academy of Fine Arts and painted a year with Eugen Bracht. Then he worked as head of a drawing and painting school in Berlin. Since 1889 he was also a member of the Association of Berlin Artists. In 1892 to 1895 Wachenhusen had several stays in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. Here together with Paul Müller-Kaempff he ran the painting school of St Lukas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Gerresheim
Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (8 March 1852 – 1 December 1921) was a German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher. She was among the founders of the artist's colony in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. Life Anna Gerresheim was born in 1852. She was the third of the eight children born to Eduard Adolph Gerresheim, a member of the Ribnitz city council, and his wife Dorothea Henriette. Although women were not permitted in art academies at that time, her parents allowed her, in 1874, to visit the art school of August tom Dieck (1831–1893) in Dresden. After the death of the father in 1876, Gerresheim spent four years in Berlin at the Prussian Academy of Arts, studying in the "ladies class" of Karl Gussow. In 1880, Gerresheim visited the artists' colony in the Danish Hornbæk. In 1882 she spent three months in London and Wales, where she fulfilled several portrait commissions. In 1883 Gerresheim spent three months in Paris on a study visit with Emile Auguste Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Von Eicken
Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940) was a German landscape painter. Life Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816–1873) and Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836–1916) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. She attended the municipal lyceum "Luisenschule" in her hometown from 1871 to 1878. After studying in Merano, Menton, Geneva and Berlin she continued her training in Paris with Edmond Yon. In this period she was strongly influenced, in her landscape painting, by the Barbizon School and by Alfred Sisley. From 1894 von Eicken worked as a freelancer in the artists' colony at Ahrenshoop and in Berlin-Grunewald. In 1894 she built a house in Ahrenshoop, where she was close to the founders of the artists' colony, including Paul Müller-Kaempff, Friedrich Wachenhusen, Anna Gerresheim and Fritz Grebe. In Berlin she was regularly represented, from 1894, at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, and also on international art exhibitions includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Marcks
Gerhard Marcks (18 February 1889 – 13 November 1981) was a German artist, known primarily as a sculptor, but who is also known for his drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and ceramics. Early life Marcks was born in Berlin, where, at the age of 18, he worked as an apprentice to sculptor Richard Scheibe. In 1914, he married Maria Schmidtlein, with whom he would raise six children. During World War I, he served in the German army, which resulted in long term health problems. With architect Walter Gropius, German-American painter Lyonel Feininger, Scheibe and others, Marcks was a member of two art-related political groups, the Novembergruppe (November Group) and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council for Art). He was also affiliated with the Deutscher Werkbund, of which Gropius was a founding member. Bauhaus master In 1919, when Gropius founded the Bauhaus, in Weimar, Marcks was one of the first three faculty members to be hired, along with Feininger and Johannes Itten. Specifical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel (31 July 1883 – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group ''Die Brücke'' ("The Bridge") which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Biography Heckel was born in Döbeln, Saxony, the son of a railway engineer. Between 1897 and 1904 he attended the Realgymnasium in Chemnitz, before studying architecture in Dresden. He left after three terms, shortly after the foundation of ''Die Brücke'', an artists' group of which he was secretary and treasurer. The other founder-members, also architectural students, were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl. He worked in the office of the architect Wilhelm Kreis until July 1907, when he resigned to become a full-time artist. Career Heckel met the other founding members of Die Brücke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Fritz Bleyl, while studying architectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
