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Art Cottage (Kunstkaten)
The Ahrenshoop Art Cottage (Kunstkaten) is one of the oldest art galleries in North Germany. Changing exhibitions on the Ahrenshoop art colony, the subsequent generations of artists up to contemporary art themes: landscape, man and sea. Concerts, readings, films, performances.
The Ahrenshoop Art Cottage (Kunstkaten) was opened on the 11th July 1909. This was an important event for the Ahrenshoop art colony and the region at that time. The design by the painters Paul Müller-Kaempff and Theobald Schorn for such an "Ahrenshoop cottage - the house for local art and craft" was appreciated by the Prussian prince Eitel Friedrich and his wife, the princess Sophie Charlotte.
The Art Cottage exhibition was closed in 1918. From 1919 the house was the summer residence of the Ackermann family. In 1938 it was bought by the sisters Dorothee and Ursula countesses of Dohna.
On the 18th August 1946 opened the first new exhibition by artists from the "fishland" at the Art Cottage, which was now leased by the "Cultural Association for the Democratic Renovation of Germany".
The house has been owned by the municipality since 1993. Today's concept for the Art Cottage is based on the traditional sense of the house and on the continued existence of Ahrenshoop as an artists' place with a distinctive character. Thus collections and estates as well as retrospectives have been displayed, alternating with exhibitions of local artists and artists in residence.
