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Healing Art. Paths to a Better Life
by MuseumLA8 · Baden-Baden · 23 stations · 64:31 min · Walk
1. 1. Healing Art. Paths to a Better Life
1:53 min · Who were the artists in search of healing and a sense of purpose, who strove for alternative ways of living? What approaches to healing did art tak...
2. 2. Back to Nature! The Lebensreform Movement
2:33 min · A programmatic aspect for those seeking healing in this period was the slogan of the naturopath Adolf Just, “return to nature,” which had its roots...
3. 3. Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
2:52 min · One of the pioneers of the Lebensreform movement was the German painter Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach.
4. 4. Vegetarianism
1:34 min · Proponents of Lebensreform promised themselves a life “close to nature” by way of vegetarian diet.
5. 5. Nudism
2:31 min · The body held a place of special importance in the Lebensreform movement.
6. 6. Hugo Höppener alias Fidus
3:06 min · Born in Lübeck in 1868, Hugo Höppener became interested in vegetarianism and alternative therapies as a youth.
7. 7.Communal Life in Nature: Grötzingen Painters’ Colony
3:57 min · Based on the model of the Barbizon School, a group of painters founded a painter colony Grötzingen near Karlsruhe in 1890.
8. 8. A Search for Meaning on the Mountain: The Sanatorium Monte Verità
3:32 min · Several sanatoriums were established in the German-speaking world. Among the most famous was the artists’ colony Monte Verità in Ascona. The Belgia...
9. 9. Beautifying Interiors
2:18 min · Around the turn of the century, a reform-oriented interior design began to emerge. In contrast to industrial mass production, which took its stylis...
10. 10. Heinrich Vogeler’s “Barkenhoff”
3:37 min · In 1894, Vogeler acquired a farmhouse in need of renovation. He gutted and renovated the house and installed a studio, transforming what was former...
11. 11. To Live More Freely
3:17 min · The profound changes resulting from industrialization shaped not only the society and the economy, but were also taken up in art: in dance, for exa...
12. 12. Healing with Spirituality
4:04 min · Scientific evidence, for example, on the measurability of invisible phenomena (for example X-rays, radioactivity, or electromagnetic waves) gave ri...
13. 13. Rudolf Steiner
2:55 min · An all-round genius, a life reformer, a pedagogue, or a savior: Who was Rudolf Steiner?
14. 14. The Goetheanum
2:05 min · The impressive domed structure, placed on a hill above the village of Dornbach, became a theater for mystery plays, eurhythmics performances, and a...
15. 15. Emma Kunz
3:55 min · “My pictorial work is for the twenty-first century,” the naturopath, researcher, and artist Emma Kunz predicted. Her art was only discovered after ...
16. 16. Joseph Beuys
3:19 min · Joseph Beuys is considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His work revolves around subjects such as loneliness, woundi...
17. 17. A Journey to the Self: The Healing Power of Art
3:29 min · With the rise of psychoanalysis, the psyche increasingly became a focus in art.
18. 18. Else Blankenhorn
1:57 min · During her stays at Bellevue and Reichenau, she made music, composed, wrote, and translated, before beginning to draw and to paint in 1908. Her sub...
19. 19. August Natterer
2:10 min · His artistic productivity shows that painting and drawing were important means for him to understand his oppressive sensations and mad notions.
20. 20. Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
2:25 min · Lohse-Wächtler’s portraits of patients at the asylums Friedrichsberg and Arnsdorf are not depictions of illness, but show individuals with their ow...
21. 21. Karl Genzel
2:03 min · Karl Genzel is one of the ten artists psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn portrayed in his work Artistry of the Mentally Ill.
22. 22. Frida Kahlo
2:44 min · In her works, Frida Kahlo processed her physical pain, the traumas of her childhood, the loss of her unborn children, and the emotional struggles o...
23. 23. Hermann Hesse
2:15 min · As part of his psychotherapy, Hermann Hesse undertook his first attempts at painting: creating dream images, self-portraits, interiors, and landsca...
6. 6. Hugo Höppener alias Fidus
Born in Lübeck in 1868, Hugo Höppener became interested in vegetarianism and alternative therapies as a youth.
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6. Hugo Höppener alias Fidus
Born in Lübeck in 1868, Hugo Höppener became interested in vegetarianism and alternative therapies as a youth.
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