Focus of the Ahrenshoop Art Museum Collection
From March 21 to May 17, 2026, the collection exhibition in Room IV is thematically dedicated to the desire for the outdoors - man and landscape in modern works.
The young painters who came together in the artists' colonies of the 19th century after training at academies or private art schools were looking for freedom: for their own work, for the way they acted, for their thoughts and feelings. Impressionist and expressionist art - classical modernism - were inconceivable without the need for freedom and the artistic desire for it.
Many important representatives of this early phase of modernism in painting worked in or near artists' colonies. For over a century, Ahrenshoop and the surrounding coastal region have been both a magnet and a source of inspiration for artists who yearned for the outdoors.
In the works of art in this exhibition, the outdoors is mostly shown as an open landscape space. The human figure is unbound in it: bathing in the water or lying on the beach, wandering, dancing, playing, dreaming, occasionally floating as an angel. The works from the years between the First and Second World Wars bear witness to the artists' attempts to come to terms with their inner drama and find healing in contact with nature.
On display are works by Alfred Partikel, Kate Diehn-Bitt, Wasja Götze, Karl Hofer, Franz Triebsch, Anna Gerresheim and many others.
