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| House of Arts Schwanheide - the History | |
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In 2001 the photorealistic painter Arthur A. Keller from Hamburg looked for new and larger rooms for his studio. By chance he found the cantine of the ancient agricultural production cooperative at Schwanheide, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and it was clear immediately, that this was the perfect new studio. After long years of hard work, the worst is done and everything looks different! The idea becomes real: a house in the country, good accessible by train, with accomodation for visitors and artists (artistic holidays are one of our special program!), with exhibition hall good for working, too, and many other rooms to work and to live in and a very beautiful and big garden in the scenicly attractive surroundings. Hamburg, the next large city, is 35 minutes away by train and there are also train connections to Schwerin and Rostock. So Schwanheide is convenient for traffic - by train and by car. Beside his drawings, Arthur A. Keller offers digital services since many years. So House of Arts Schwanheide became the center of excellence for canvas prints and fine art prints for many regulars over the last years. We deliver pictures all over the world - in extreme cases even within 24 hours! Furthermore, we printed whole exhibitions here in Schwanheide, already! In October 2006, a new big printer with 12 incs and 1.52 m printing width was put into operation and so the quality increased considerably. The digital book production began in 2006, too. By now, two high-performance pinters print art calenders, post cards, books and catalogues in small and very small editions. We can even do hardcover. Our customers welcomed this service and we printed and bound many interesting books already. The number of workers increases constantly, too, since December 2008 there are ten brave employees - without counting the director and the cat. Painting courses, printing seminars and exhibitions complete our program. The garden with its 3600 m² invites to rest. Arthur A. Keller's brother Dr. Carlos Keller builds an architectonically interesting sidewing, so that the whole building will have 816 m² in the end. |
 The house seen from the front, beneath: view onto the nwe side wing on the left, which will be finished in 2010
Arc with roses beside the entrance
Under construction: a bird-dragon with refelcting coating built by Ulrike Keller
Ulrike Keller's threepart dragon in the sunset light |
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© Arthur A. Keller
© Arthur A. Keller, Atelier de l'art Schwanheide, 2010. 