Association of revolutionary visual artists

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The Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists in Germany, Asso for short , ARBKD for short , was an association of communist artists. It was founded in March 1928. At their Berlin congress in November 1931, the name was changed to the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany ( BRBKD ). The group was banned in 1933 in the early days of National Socialism .

history

Since the November group founded during the October Revolution was soon viewed as dominated by the Social Democrats , the Communist Party felt the need to form its own group of artists. The first attempt to form a communist artist group with Heinrich Vogeler's working group of communist artists failed in 1927/1928. The model for the second attempt was the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (ACHRR) . The initiators were young artists from the Central Atelier for Image Propaganda of the KPD in the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus in Berlin. B. the then head and photo mechanic Max Keilson . They joined forces with Vogeler's colleagues and the Red Group around Grosz, John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter . Communist members of the Reich Economic Association of Visual Artists formed another basis of the association. Max Keilson became chairman of the ASSO.

Gregor Gog's artist group Brotherhood of Vagabonds joined the ASSO in 1931, Oskar Nerlinger's group Die Zeitgemäße (previously Die Abstrakten ) in 1932 and the ASSO also opened up to Franz Wilhelm Seiwert's group of progressive artists and the collective for socialist building .

In 1929 ASSO held its first exhibition in Berlin under the title “Capital and Labor”. In 1930 the exhibition "Socialist International Art" took place and in 1932 the group held an exhibition in the Europahaus , as the police had intervened against them at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . The group also published the magazine The Shock Troop .

In 1933 the ASSO is said to have had 800 members. In addition to Berlin , other local groups were formed in Dresden , Düsseldorf , Essen , Halle , Hamburg , Karlsruhe , Cologne , Leipzig , Magdeburg , Munich , Stuttgart and Wuppertal .

Members of ASSO Berlin

1928-1933

Soon after ASSO Germany was founded in March 1928, numerous interested artists from all over Germany contacted Berlin to join the association. These were asked to form local groups in order to spread the association as widely as possible.

ASSO Dresden (local group)

1930-1933

ASSO Dresden was already active as a loose group in 1929. The official establishment took place in 1930.

ASSO Düsseldorf (local group)

1929-1933

Mathias Barz , Gottfried Brockmann , Hanns Kralik , Wolfgang Langhoff , Carl Lauterbach , Julo Levin (perished in Auschwitz concentration camp), Peter Ludwigs (1888–1943, perished on July 2, 1943 in Düsseldorf prison), Karl Schwesig , Harald Quedenfeldt

ASSO Hamburg (local group)

1929-1933

Rudolf Führmann (1909–1976, also listed as Heinz Führmann), Otto Gröllmann (founder), Emil Kritzky (1903, co-founder), Fritz Schreck (1909), Walter Stiller (1906), Gustav Tolle , Ernst Witt (1901)

ASSO Cologne (local group)

1929-1933

Peter Pfaffenholz (1900–1959, initiator) and the entire group of Cologne Progressives .

ASSO Leipzig (local group)

1929-1933

literature

  • Mathias Wagner: Art as a weapon. The "ASSO" in Dresden (1930 to 1933) . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 130-135 .
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: ASSO . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-1106-7 , p. 70-78 .
  • Meyers Großes Taschenlexikon, in 24 Vol. Vol. 2. BI-Taschenbuch, Mannheim / Wien / Zürich 1987. ISBN 3-411-02900-5
  • Meyers Kleines Lexikon, in 3 vol. Vol. 1. Leipzig 1967, 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Wilhelmi: ASSO . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 70 .
  2. ↑ Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? : Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 81 ( limited preview in the Google book search - the “International Exhibition of Revolutionary Artists”, on the other hand, seemed to have taken place in 1922, before the founding of the ASSO).
  3. ↑ Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? : Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Mathias Wagner: Art as a weapon. The "ASSO" in Dresden (1930 to 1933) . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 130-135 .
  5. ↑ On the founding date of the Dresden ASSO see research results in: Mathias Wagner: Art as a weapon. The "ASSO" in Dresden (1930 to 1933) . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 130 .
  6. ↑ Arntraut Kalhorn: Alexander Nero Slow, a painter in Germany in the 20th century: a biographical collage . Helms, Schwerin 2013, p. 179 .

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