The Ekensund Artists' Colony (German - ''Künstlerkolonie Ekensund'') was a late 19th-century

art colony Art colonies are organic congregations of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, who are often drawn to areas of natural beauty, the prior existence of other artists, art schools there, or a lower cost of living. They are typically mission ...

in Egernsund Sogn, now in southern

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on the north bank of the

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in Denmark, but then known as Ekensund and part of the

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within the

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. It drew artists including Wilhelm Dreesen, Alexander Eckener, Otto Heinrich Engel,

Emmy Gotzmann Emmy Auguste Elisabeth Gotzmann (19 March 1881 – 27 September 1950) was a painter from Germany and a member of the Ekensund Artists' Colony. Biography Emmy Gotzmann was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1881. She was the daughter of Klara, née K ...

, Johannes Knutz, Erich Kubierschky,

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, Heinrich Petersen-Angeln, Johann Sander and

Fritz Stoltenberg Fritz Stoltenberg (7 April 1855 -13 November 1921) was a German landscape and marine art, marine painter. After a summer with the Skagen Painters in 1884, he returned to Kiel where he painted and sketched the old town and the harbor, publishi ...

Bibliography

* * *''Ekensund im Kreis der Künstlerkolonien an der Ostsee''. Ausstellungskatalog Gemäldegalerie Dachau. Dachau 2016, .

References

{{reflist Artist colonies German artist groups and collectives Danish art