Art is very easy.

The motto is "Anyone can be creative" on the farm on Wilstedtermühle Teufelsmoor is painted, carved, hammered, and shaped with the chainsaw. A family of children and parents excited - even if the Hofgetier there are scathing.

 

Family home runs from Hamburg in the winter for skiing in the Alps and in the summer to swim in the South. But the favorite holiday of Louisa, 9, and Justus, 6, takes place every year in autumn, in cold, wet northern Germany, 35 kilometers northeast of Bremen. "The week at the
Wilstedtermühle yard for our children is the most beautiful in the whole year, "says Ragna home," that both respond like a shot, if I ask. "

This is the welcome there sometimes scathing. Geese like to welcome guests upon disembarking from the car, and who is not committed to a branch or at least the travel bag is fighting, according to the will ever caught. Welcome to a very lively farm, but not just poultry, ponies and sheep offers, but also - and this is special -: art to Participate. The farmhouse on the outskirts of the devil Moors, close to the artists and places Worpswede Fischerhude combines rural idyll with colorful creativity.

In the 150 years old Mühlenhof, a proud white house with red shingles, the art classes. While surrounded by meadows, ponds, climbing trees, table tennis and pool hall farm distraction for sure, does the creative work strictly to the schedule of the art teacher Andrea Schloen. "At 10 clock I start with the painting for children," says the boss of the farm, 11 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. clock are the adults turn. " Afternoons may be small and large together outside on the cobblestones in front of the barn sculpt.

Spotted, glued, painted with fingers

"For me, each painting," says Ms. Schloen, "with or without prior knowledge." The 66-year-old, who until the beginning of 40 art education and studied for years before the family headed craftsman, is a large slender lady, also a painter in overalls yet elegant effect. "I am always on fathers and mothers, in professional leadership roles, and are willing to entrust my instructions."

Almost looks like this: Schloen leads the newcomers initially by gallery-like spaces in the main house, whose walls, hundreds of very different pictures hang? abstract and figurative, polka, glued or painted with fingers. Each guest will spontaneously say what he liked so well that he would desire, like myself to try. "Taste is subjective, quality is an objective," is Schloen motto. Then we give you the necessary materials for his picture out and the associated technology explains: acrylic, watercolor or oil, graffiti or collage, linocut and monotype.

Once started, inspired Schloen diminished? self-critical about children? with their contagious enthusiasm. Overzealous in turn, are encouraged, but it first small to tackle. Which adults still know how difficult it is to a large area uniformly auszumalen with paint? "The kids always amazed that their parents sometimes do what only they themselves in school and they have held for Kinderkram."

Afternoon, then all meet at the farm. In the shadow of the old oak tree trunk blocks are ready for it to carve wood or stones to sand? Soapstone, alabaster, marble, limestone. It crunches and grinds, hammering and knocking circulates between the water bottle. Sculpting calls unsuspected muscles. Again and again, knocking a child from the grinding dust and swings into a lot of climbing the tall trees on the outdoor workshop. "Sculptures made of aerated concrete makes us the most fun," says the Hamburg home, studied graphic artist myself, "we are behind eingestäubt the miller who wirtschafteten here. Such pigs can be used at home do not do."

Excursion to the villages Artists

Suggestions for their own production can be seen in the artist villages of the area pick: the Heinrich Vogeler-Museum in Barkenhoff in Worpswede or in the Otto-Modersohn-Haus in Fischerhude. There you can even go to eat dinner. Because Schloen guests must cook for himself, lived in seven large, simple apartments with own kitchen. To explore the area, you can bike in the neighboring village to borrow.

Court Wilstedtermühle provides not only family vacation: There are also creative weekends for adults only. Since then the lady of the house cooks himself Vollkornkost tasty with herbs from the garden.

Children can turn in the summer holidays without parents. Per week, the old farmhouse holiday for every ten children are home to the two or three in a room to sleep. You are a guest at Schloen couple, whose own three children have grown up already. Even for them, there's every day, art lessons, pony rides and swimming? as for all guests. Only when there is nostalgia for a special treatment: "Because nehm 'I am the child in the womb," says Schloen, despite a certain North German Resolute just for younger guests is very popular.

Speaking of the very young: They are not necessarily due to the high arts. For first-graders from Hamburg Justus go again this fall by only one: "boating between the geese!"