Naturbad – Bathing in nature
Bereichstext Naturbad.
Naturbad – Natural bath
The nature aesthetic of the life reform movement
The painter Christian Landenberger (1862-1927), a native of Ebingen, found the ideal motif for his open-air paintings in the depiction of children bathing. Self-forgetful and introverted, the boys enjoy the closeness and freshness of the water. In the spirit of the life reform movement of the 1900s, they thus return to the bosom of unspoilt nature. Landenberger, who was a professor at the Stuttgart Academy and ran a private art school, also made this motif the subject of his painting class. The young Willi Baumeister visited his teacher at the Ammersee and nevertheless set other accents in his bathing scene with bistro table and parasol.
