Amber School

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The Bernsteinschule was a private art school in the former Bernstein Monastery near Sulz am Neckar , now in the Rottweil district , Baden-Württemberg .

history

The amber school ( "der Bernstein" ) in the then state domain served as an academy replacement for the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern from its foundation in 1946 to 1952/1955 during the time of the French occupation , since no art academies were initially reopened after the war. The monastery building, which served as a vacation home for the Hitler Youth during National Socialism, was looted and devastated and the first art students first had to restore it. The empty monastery church served as a lecture hall and community studio.

In September 1946, the painter and graphic artist Paul Kälberer , chairman of the Association of Fine Artists Württemberg Süd , called for the establishment of a “working group for fine arts”, which began its work on the Bernstein that same year. Kälberer laid down the statutes and formulated the pedagogical guidelines. He was able to win the sculptor and painter Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer as head of the “school” . In 1950, the working group applied for recognition as a "state-approved school".

In the early 1950s, the Bernstein School provided far-reaching impulses to revitalize the southern German art scene. Four artists gave the amber school its character. In the first few years it was the headmasters Paul Kälberer and Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer. Since 1951, HAP Grieshaber, together with Riccarda Gregor-Grieshaber, determined the direction of the school, which he set up as a kind of boarding school where young artists and writers could learn, work and live together. In the Bernstein School there were no classes, teaching hours or exams. Grieshaber opened the school to the outside world and paved the way for the students in practical professions. Among other things, he set up courses for typography and photography, sponsored artistic industrial design and won sponsorships with advertising contracts.

In 1953, HAP Grieshaber retired from the school management, but Bernstein , although no longer a school, remained a workshop and artist community until 1955, which was attended by former students. The well-known students and guests included Herbert Feyerabend, Peter Härtling , Hans Peter Hoch , Herbert W. Kapitzki , Joachim Geissler-Kasmekat, Emil Kiess , Roland Martin, Kurt Frank , Lothar Quinte , Heinz Schanz and Winand Victor.

literature

  • Bernhard Rüth (Ed.): Calves in Bernstein . Sulz a. N. 1992.
  • Eva-Marina Froitzheim: Grieshaber on Bernstein , Hausen ob Verena: Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation [u. a.], 1994, ISBN 3-930569-11-6 .
  • Eva-Marina Froitzheim: The Amber School 1946 - 1951 , Hausen ob Verena [u. a.]: Edition Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen, 1995, ISBN 3-930569-13-2 .
  • Eva-Marina Froitzheim: The Bernstein School 1951 - 1955 , Rottweil: District Office, Archives and Culture Office, 1996, ISBN 3-930569-15-9 .
  • Joachim Geissler-Kasmekat, Bernhard Rüth, Andreas Zoller: Pfeiffer in Bernstein . Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer - paintings, sculptures, objects. Rottweil 1997, ISBN 978-3-928869-07-2 .
  • Bernhard Rüth (Ed.): The Bernstein School. The nucleus of post-war art. Contributions by Christine Dietz, Ludwig Dietz, Eva M. Froitzheim, Bernhard Rüth, Andreas Zoller. Publisher: Landratsamt Rottweil, 1998. ISBN 978-3-928869-10-2 .
  • Bernhard Rüth (ed.): Riccarda Pfeiffer - Gohr - Gregor - Grieshaber. The forgotten painter of amber. Rottweil 2016. ISBN 978-3-928869-35-5
  • Ludwig Dietz: Paul Kälberer and the Bernstein School: 1945/46 - 1951 (1955); Annalen , Horb a. N .: L. Dietz, 2004, ISBN 3-00-013048-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Bergmann : Bernstein and Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer, sculptor, painter . In: Clams. Annual journal for literature and graphics . No. 39/40. Viersen 2000, ISSN  0085-3593 , p. 166
  2. ^ Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte, Volume 49 Ed. Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 420
  3. ^ Ulrich Bergmann: Bernstein and Hans Ludwig Pfeiffer , p. 169
  4. ↑ Norbert Schneider, Katharina Büttner, Martin Papenbrock, Art and Architecture in Karlsruhe: Festschrift for Norbert Schneider , Universitaetsverlag Karlsruhe, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86644-050-0 , p. 130 ff (available at Google Books)

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 47.5 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 22.6"  E