Her life came to a fateful end: On December 12, 1933, Anita Rée, lonely and depressed, committed suicide in Kampen. She was only 48 years old. Born in Hamburg to a Jewish merchant family, Anita Rée later studied with the Impressionist painter Arthur Siebelist. As a founding member of the artists' association "Hamburg Secession" in 1919, her striking portrait drawings and landscape motifs received considerable attention in subsequent exhibitions. In 1932, due to a disappointment in love, Anita Rée left Hamburg and moved to Sylt, where she lived in an unheated maid's room in Kampen, where one could barely stand upright. To pay the rent, she painted the house's 24 shutters with colorful, imaginary flowers during the winter. Depressed and lonely, Anita Rée wrote to a friend: "I feel more uprooted and homeless than ever and don't know what will become of me." However, she dared not return to Hamburg due to the increasing polemics against the Jews. Anita Rée finally ended her mental suffering with an overdose of a sleeping pill.
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Car: From the direction of List and Wenningstedt you can reach Kampen via the main road.
Bicycle: The old island railway line provides a north-south connection as a cycling and hiking path. A cycle path runs alongside Braderuper Weg from Keitum/Braderup to Kampen.
On foot: You can reach Kampen from the Westerland/Wenningstedt and List directions both via the beach and along the hiking trail along the former island railway line. From Wenningstedt, a wooden walkway leads through the dunes over the Red Cliff to Kampen. From the Braderup/Keitum direction, you can walk along the heathland paths along the mudflats.
Bus: You can reach Kampen with line 1 from Westerland and List.
To reach the stele, please get off at Kampen Mitte.
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