General German Art Cooperative

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The Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft was the first national professional association for visual artists in Germany. It was founded in Bingen at the end of September 1856 .

history

View of Bingen am Rhein, anonymous painter, mid-19th century

The Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten - initiated by a "Düsseldorfer Comité" around Hermann Becker and Emanuel Leutze - issued a call in 1856 for the "first assembly of German visual artists" in Bingen am Rhein. The meeting took place from September 28th to September 30th, 1856, supported by the city of Bingen, which made its newly built bathhouse available as a meeting place. Three meetings were held under the leadership of the Nazarene Philipp Veit - the creator of the famous Germania - and supplemented by a social program of excursions and celebrations. As a result of the consultations, artists from 21 cities founded the “Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft”. In doing so, they pursued the concern of developing “German art” on a national basis and raising the material well-being of the artistic class. For this purpose, according to the ideas of the around 160 participants, national art exhibitions should also be organized. So the following resolution was passed unanimously:

"A general German art exhibition is to take place, which is to recur periodically in various larger cities."

At the next meeting, in Stuttgart in 1857, Munich was chosen as the location for a first joint exhibition, which took place in the Glaspalast in 1858 with great success under the title “German and Historical Art Exhibition” .

The Munich artists' cooperative emerged from the organization of annual follow-up exhibitions . However, the further development of the “General German Artists' Cooperative” has not yet been researched. She is said to have continued to organize exhibitions and support artists in financial difficulties. She is also said to have been involved in the creation of the legal basis for the first German copyright law from 1876. After 1900, however, the central organization of the artists' associations fell apart, until 1921 the "Reichswirtschaftsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands" (Reich Economic Association of Fine Artists of Germany) was founded.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The first meeting of German visual artists. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer : Experienced . Second volume, chapter 5, 1856, accessed on March 27, 2020 from the projekt-gutenberg.org portal (Gutenberg project)
  2. ^ Eleonore Sent: Hermann Heinrich Becker (September 28, 1817 - May 3, 1885) . Biography, City Archive State Capital Düsseldorf, bequests / collections (4-2, Finding aid number: 7-2-4-2.0000), file in PDF, accessed on May 3, 2014 in the duesseldorf.de portal

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