Art club

The Art Club (also: artclub ) was a Viennese artists' association of the post-war period .

history

The Art Club was founded in 1946 (according to another source in 1947) as one of the most progressive platforms for young painters, sculptors, authors and musicians in the struggle for the autonomy of modern art. Kurt Moldovan was a founding member of the Austrian section of the Art Club.

Meeting points were the studios of Maria Biljan-Bilger , Heinz Leinfellner , Wander Bertoni and Susanne Wenger , but also Cafe Raimund, Cafe Glory, Espresso Stanbul, Cafe Falstaff and the Strohkoffer.

The group's president and prominent mentor was Albert Paris Gütersloh . The group activities were promoted by Alfred Schmeller . Art Club exhibitions mostly took place in the Zedlitzhalle or in the Vienna Secession . For a long time, the artistic appearance of the Art Club was characterized by the peaceful coexistence of surrealists ( Vienna School of Fantastic Realism ) and abstracts. Wieland Schmied suspects that the multiple generous help from Rudolf Carl von Ripper for Art Club events was made possible by the secret service of the CIA .

The Art Club dissolved in 1959.

Known members

Friedrich Achleitner Ilse Aichinger HC Artmann Konrad Bayer Gustav Kurt Beck Wander Bertoni Maria Biljan-Bilger Herbert Boeckl Arik Brewer Jeannie Ebner Paul Flora

Hans Fronius Ernst Fuchs Elfriede Gerstl Albert Paris Gütersloh Rudolf Hausner Wolfgang Hollegha Friedensreich Hundertwasser Wolfgang Hutter Ernst Jandl Fritz Janschka Edgar Jené

Anton Krejcar Wolfgang Kudrnofsky Maria Lassnig Anton Lehmden Heinz Leinfellner Friederike Mayröcker Josef Mikl Kurt Moldovan Peter Pálffy Markus Prachensky Stephan Pral Ferry Radax

Arnulf Rainer Fritz Riedl Rudolph Charles von Ripper Gerhard Rühm Johanna Schidlo Alfred Schmeller Ursula shoe Gerhard Swoboda Carl Unger Hans Weigel Susanne Wenger Alfred Wickenburg Oswald Wiener

literature

• Gerhard Rühm : The phenomenon of the "wiener group" in the vienna of the fifties and sixties. In: Peter Weibel (ed.): The wiener group: a moment of modernity 1954–1960 / the visual works and the actions. Exhibition catalog for the Biennale di Venezia , Springer, Vienna & New York 1997. Full text online on UbuWeb (English).
• Avant-garde of the new freedom. In: ORF ON Kultur, June 4, 2003. Online from kultur.orf.at in the base archive: art.
• A cellar and its consequences. An exceptionally good show for the “Mythos Art Club”. In: Der Standard , print edition, June 6, 2003. Online from derStandard.at in the basis archive: kunst.

See also

• Fantastic Museum

Web links

• Art Club entry in the base archive: art.
• What was the Art Club now? Documentary (1981), part 1.
• What was the Art Club now? Part 2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Gerhard Rühm, 1997.
2. ↑ See entry in the base archive: art.
3. ↑ See Der Standard , June 6, 2003.