Kunstenaarstuinen (The Artist’s Garden)

This book describes more than twenty gardens that served as secret havens, sources of inspiration, studios, and homes for famous painters. From the house of Paul Cézanne in the south of France to Frederick Childe Hassam in Celia Thaxter’s garden off the coast of Maine, USA.

Flowers and gardens have often been the first choice for artists selecting subjects for their work. Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny demonstrates how one garden can be the catalyst for hundreds of great paintings. Sometimes, an entire village becomes the center of an artist colony, such as in Murnau in the Bavarian hills of southern Germany and in Skagen at the northernmost tip of Denmark.

This book is about the lives, homes, and gardens of great artists.

The gardens can still be visited. Visitor information is included in the book.

With the following Artist’s: Paul Cézanne, Frida Kahlo, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Emil Nolde, Max Liebermann,
Joaquín Sorolla, Henri Le Sidaner, J. Alden Weir and others in New England, Laurits
Tuxen and P.S. Krøyer in Skagen, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter in the Münter
house, Murnau, William and May Morris in Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, E.A.
Hornel and other Kirkcudbright artist’s in the Broughton house, Duncan Grant
and Vanessa Bell in Charleston in Sussex and Claude Monet and others in Giverny and
Argenteuil.