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The Dachau art colony was an artists' colony located in Dachau, Germany, that flourished from around 1890 until 1914. HistoryIn the early 19th century, the then-bucolic village of Dachau (located just 12 miles from Munich) began attracting landscape painters.[ By the second half of the century, Barbizon-influenced painters like Carl Spitzweg and Christian Morgenstern, and academic painters like Wilhelm von Diez and Eduard Schleich the Elder had worked in and around Dachau.] A new era opened in 1888 when the German painter Adolf Hölzel moved to Dachau.[ In 1897 he and several other avant-garde artists — notably Ludwig Dill and Arthur Langhammer — set up the "New Dachau" art school in Dachau that attracted artists from all over Europe, especially rural genre painters, landscape painters, and printmakers.][ Many stayed and formed a colony, drawn both by the picturesque surrounding moors stretching to the distant Alps and by the lower cost of living than in nearby Munich.][ Among those drawn to the art colony were Fritz von Uhde,][ Walther Klemm][, Gertrud Staats[1], and Carl Thiemann.][ The architect Georg Ludwig designed a group of residences for Dachau artists.] The new colony achieved national recognition in 1898 when Hölzel, Dill, and Langhammer mounted a joint exhibition in Berlin under the title "The Dachauer".[ So many artists passed through Dachau during its first fifteen years that certain subjects and views were reproduced repeatedly.][ One especially popular subject was an old cottage surrounded by ancient poplars, known as the 'Moss Hut' (Moosschwaige).][ The nearby moorland, called the Dachauer Moos, was another popular subject.] The heyday of the colony lasted only until 1914, when many artists left to join the military during World War I and never returned.[ In addition, new developments in art during the postwar era — especially the rise of urban and industrial subjects — began to leave Dachau colony artists behind.][ After World War II, the art colony was nearly forgotten as Dachau became associated in most people's minds above all with the Dachau concentration camp.] See alsoReferences1. ^{{cite web |last1=Ratajczak |first1=Elżbieta |title=Staats Gertrud |url=http://jbc.jelenia-gora.pl/Content/491/staats.html |website=Słownik Biograficzny Ziemi Jeleniogórskiej |accessdate=13 August 2018}}
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