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Theme: "Worpswede, Worpswede. You are always on my mind". Paula Modersohn-Becker, Heinrich Vogeler and the Artists' Village Worpswede
Speaker: Uwe Ramlow, cultural scientist, freelancer at the Bauhaus Academy of Continuing Education Weimar
Time: Friday, 11.11.2022, 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau,Faraday Building, Weimarer Straße 32
Admission: 5 Euro
In 1889, painters settled in a moorland village on the outskirts of Bremen that had been little known until then. They thus joined the ranks of the open-air painters who had previously written a new chapter in European art history with the Barbizon School. In 1895, the Worpswede painters celebrated a sensational success with their pictures - with consequences: Within a few years, the village established itself as one of the best-known artists' villages. In the midst of an austere rural landscape with its peat farmers, a refuge of art and free spirit emerged. The young Paula Modersohn-Becker stopped off in Worpswede's Barkenhoff and, with her unconventional painting style, left the genre of landscape painting here to become an important early pioneer of classical modernism; the celebrated Art Nouveau artist Heinrich Vogeler shaped Worpswede into an "island of the beautiful"; and the young writer Rainer Maria Rilke also paid his respects to the place.
In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens' Campus, the cultural scientist Uwe Ramlow recalls the eventful art and contemporary history of the now internationally known place. But he also recalls that the group broke up after its brilliant rise after a few years and that the First World War created caesuras. Heinrich Vogeler turned into a social utopian and transformed the Barkenhoff into a commune of life reform. Visions, tensions, failures and new beginnings accompanied the further history of the artists' community, whose ideals repeatedly rubbed up against reality.
Contact
Dr. Uwe Geishendorf
Central Institute for Education
+49 3677 69-4675
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
