Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (Dresden)

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The Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists Dresden (short form ASSO Dresden) was a local group of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists in Germany and, with over 40 participating artists, soon became the second focus of the entire organization in addition to Berlin .

history

Soon after the founding of ASSO Germany 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.

First contacts with the Berlin group were made in Dresden as early as 1928. Initially still loosely organized, the core of the Dresden ASSO was formed in 1929 around Otto Griebel , Hans and Lea Grundig , Herbert Gute and Eugen Hoffmann . Werner Hoffmann , Wilhelm Lachnit , Alexander Neroslow , Kurt Schütze , Fritz Schulze and Eva Schulze-Knabe . According to more recent findings and contrary to the numerous representations in GDR publications on the history of the Dresden ASSO, in which the founding date February / March 1929 is given, the official establishment of the ASSO in Dresden took place in the spring of 1930.

The Dresden local group was primarily an art-political association without its own exhibitions. However, numerous artists from the ASSO environment repeatedly exhibited with Josef Sandel in the Galerie Junge Kunst in Dresden. ASSO Dresden organized discussions with up to 200 visitors and themed exhibitions in department stores (e.g. Frau in Not ). From February 1931 to December 1932 the group was editor of the magazine stoß von links , which also published political graphics of the members. The ASSO artists designed and produced posters, leaflets and banners for political actions in the service of the KPD . The ASSO artists created stage sets and posters for agitprop groups and performances in the workers' theater. They themselves acted as quick draftsmen who, on request from the audience, painted current events from politics and business as a caricature . In the Marxist Workers' School (MASCH), interested lay people were trained by ASSO artists in the design and creation of propaganda material.

ASSO Dresden comprised around 40 members, including numerous students from the Dresden Art Academy . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , the group was banned 1,933th Some of the members who survived the Second World War continued the style of the 1930s in the artist group Das Ufer . They influenced the development of art in the later GDR .

Members

See also

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 ( digital copy [PDF]).
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: ASSO Dresden . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 74-76 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .