There are changing exhibitions there and you cannot avoid seeing them - there is art all around and as you turn around the corner, you just can't help seeing another exposure!
Written May 6, 2003
The village is situated at the Weyerberg, an elevation of all of 52 metres, and at the small river Hamme. In the past, the village was primarily surrounded by the "Teufelsmoor", but there only are a couple of moor areas left today, partly being conservation area. The area otherwise is very green and flat. A paradise for hikers, cyclists and canoeists.
Written May 6, 2003
After the divorce, the first wife of Heinrich Vogeler, Martha Schröder, lived in the Haus im Schluh. The two half-timbered houses house a museum with works of Heinrich Vogeler, a hand weaving mill and a pension.
Written May 6, 2003
This picture as well as the entrance picture were taken at Barkenhoff.
Heinrich Vogeler bought an old smallholder cottage croft and renovated it 1898 with Art Nouveau elements, e.g. he added gables and a garret roof. In 1908 he added the studio tower. People of artistic and social importance met there around the turn of the century, it represented the centre of the social life of the artist's colony. Vogeler changed the Barkenhoff into a children's home within the twenties. Children from strongly polluted industrial areas went on holidays there.
The park was changed into farming land. Inside the house Vogeler created political mural paintings, but they were painted over during the Third Reich. From those paintings, today there remain only some photos. And the mantelpiece inside is reminiscent of the red time of the Barkenhoff.
Today, both park and building have been restored again in the Art Nouveau style. The White Hall, in which readings and family concerts took place, is situated on the upper floor. The bedroom of the married couple Heinrich and Martha Vogeler is a true copy of the original. Moreover numerous design objects and pieces of furniture of Vogeler are on the upper floor. Changing exhibitions take place on the ground floor.
Written May 6, 2003
Kaffee Worpswede
Also called Crazy Café. Designed by Bernhard Hoetger, built 1925 in style of expressionism. Today it's a restaurant.
Kreatives Haus
Also designed by Bernhard Hoetger, playful brick building. It houses a training centre for managers today. Unfortunately, the access is forbidden, and no glimpse of the remarkable building can be caught from the drive.
Written May 6, 2003
Worpswede is located about 25 km northeast of the Hanseatic town of Bremen, in the northwest of Germany. The municipality Worpswede has more than 9500 inhabitants today.
Written May 6, 2003
Favorite thing: This was my favorite art exhibit!!!
On that pink wall it says:
"Why Art, when there is Cake?"
Wozu Kunst, wenn es Kuchen gibt?
This question was exactly in my mind, too, since I am not too much into art myself...
Worpswede has both: art, changing exhibitions, cafés, delicious cakes, beautiful landscape - so it really is a place to enjoy!
Updated May 6, 2003
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