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Travelling the world

The Solingen artists' colony

31.10.2024 - 27.04.2025 ,
Gemäldegalerie Dachau (Dachau Art Gallery)

Accessibility
partly accessible
Opening Times
Open today 13:00-17:00
Address
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 3
85221 Dachau

By boat, train and car to Venice, Trondheim and Luxor: The three main artists of the Solingen artists' colony, Erwin Bowien (1899-1972), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937-2020) and Amud Uwe Millies (1932-2008), travelled the world and painted landscapes, cities, people and street scenes - views that in some cases are no longer to be found today. Their starting point and recurring centre of life was the "Black House" in Solingen, an established meeting place for artists and intellectuals since the 1920s. Contrary to the contemporary artistic trend towards abstraction, they painted figuratively and saw themselves in the tradition of plein-air painting and the artists' colonies of the turn of the century. However, impressions of involuntary journeys and experiences of flight also reflect places in their history. A journey around the world - through the eyes of three very different artistic personalities who were closely connected.

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Last edited on 05.09.2024

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Museum / Exhibition Centre: Gemäldegalerie Dachau (Dachau Art Gallery)

Around 1900, Dachau was one of the most important artists' colonies in Germany alongside Worpswede; it was a center of newly discovered open-air painting and an important source of inspiration for...

Location: Dachau