Professional association of visual artists in Austria
The Professional Association of Austrian Artists (short BV), with more than 1,200 members, the largest and oldest advocacy for visual artists in Austria. It is divided into individual sections. These include painting and graphics, sculpture, applied arts, photo multimedia, crossart, restoration, and building architecture.
activity
As a professional representative, the association maintains close contact with the responsible federal ministries, with the legislature and with subordinate authorities and strives to provide adequate legal and social framework conditions for the profession. To do this, it uses its voting rights in commissions and committees of public institutions. Before bills, which have the legal status of artists, art subsidies, art definitions and the like, reach the National Council, they are submitted to the National Council as a ministerial draft for assessment and the like. a. sent to the professional association of visual artists in Austria for comment.
One goal is to offer members the opportunity to measure themselves against national and international standards. To this end, networks are being built up at home and abroad and joint exhibitions are organized for members at home and abroad and in the rooms of the professional association at Schönbrunn Palace.
The purposes include the coordination of the interests of their national organizations and the representation of the interests of the artists in collecting societies and cultural associations.
The association has regional organizations for Salzburg, Styria and Carinthia as well as one for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Their tasks are to play a decisive role in shaping the local cultural development and to use their regional work effectively for member support and art education.
The central association, founded in 1950 and based in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna (where the regional organization for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland also has its offices) acts as an umbrella organization through the regional organizations organized as an association. Its task consists in the perception, representation and promotion of the cultural, artistic, economic, legal, social and other professional interests with and in corporations under public or civil law.
history
The professional association as the central association of visual artists was founded on November 27, 1912 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . At that time, the economic interests of the members were primarily pursued. The landscape painter Hugo Darnaut was appointed as the first president.
On December 30, 1913, the company was entered in the commercial register under the title "Austrian Association of Visual Artists, registered cooperative with limited liability". Its seat was in the secession in the 1st district in Vienna. The first president was the painter Hans Ranzoni . The aim of the association was to unite all Austrian artists under one roof. In 1919, the Künstlerhaus , the Sezession , the Hagenbund and many associations from the federal states joined the trade association with all members. This created an umbrella organization for all visual artists in Austria. At the general meeting on March 1, 1926, the name was changed to “Central Association of Austrian Artists for the Protection of Their Class and Economic Interests, reg. Genossenschaft mbH. ”Changed. The central association now saw itself as the supreme authority of the visual arts community with regard to economic and class interests. In 1937 it already had 1,129 members.
After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, the German Reich Chamber of Culture Act came into force. When a compulsory incorporation of all visual artists into the Reichskunstkammer took place, the organization continued to exist but was renamed "Wirtschaftsgenossenschaft Bildender Künstler, registered Genossenschaft mbH." renamed and completely lost its importance under the compulsion of the Reichskunstkammer. In May 1945, the current association with its current name emerged from it. The first activities were the issuing of German-Russian artist ID cards and confirmations for obtaining additional food cards for artists in need. Material such as paints, brushes and linen was procured for the members from western countries, mainly from donations from the British Council and the Canadian Council. American and Russian officers placed the first orders. These were mainly portraits of the officers. Payment was in food. The professional association wanted to work across the whole of Austria, regardless of the military zones in which the federal states were divided, and so the first regional organizations were founded in autumn 1945.
In 1947, the association was allocated rooms in Schönbrunn Palace. It is still there today for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland.
Also in 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, the professional association of Austrian visual artists under its President Karl Stemolak organized the “First Great Austrian Art Exhibition” in the Künstlerhaus , which went down in cultural history. The diversity in which the visual arts manifested itself in spite of a war that had just been overcome was to be shown to a broad public for the first time in this exhibition. The exhibition rooms were designed, the areas in front of the Künstlerhaus were converted into two guest gardens and a poster street was built. In addition to paintings, graphics, sculptures and sculptures, the public was shown to what extent artists were again intervening in practical life by means of exhibited posters, stage models, gardens and handicrafts. It is also noteworthy that there were very many women among the exhibitors in the exhibition. The members of the professional association of Austrian visual artists played a large part in this with 752 works of art exhibited. At the opening ceremony, the then Federal President Karl Renner , Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl , Minister of Education Felix Hurdes , the then Mayor Theodor Körner and the President of the National Council Leopold Kunschak took part. Representatives of the Allied occupying powers also took part in the opening ceremony. The Vienna Philharmonic provided the musical setting. Overall, the exhibition lasted until October 19, 1947 and was visited by 61,567 people, although the entrance fee of 2 schillings was relatively high.
From 1950 onwards, the professional association rented some of the halls of the Palais Liechtenstein (Fürstengasse) for a lively exhibition. The first exhibition "Art for Everyone" was a success.
Around 1970 the Kronprinzen Apartments of Schönbrunn Palace were used for member presentations. In 1973 the restorers section held a remarkable exhibition “Rescue of Works of Art” on the premises of the professional association, which received international recognition for both the number of valuable exhibits and the specialist catalog that was published. There were also exhibitions in the rooms of the Austrian State Printing Office, in the halls of the Austrian State Archives, in the Inner City District Museum in the Old Town Hall on Wipplingerstraße and many more.
In 1996 the regional association for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland opened exhibition rooms in the 8th district of Josefstadt . After a year of good exhibitions, however, operations had to be stopped. Today, several joint exhibitions at home and abroad in galleries, museums and other representative exhibition venues are organized annually for the members of the professional association of Austrian visual artists. In addition, group exhibitions of the members are shown in the exhibition room “Art Salon of the Professional Association of Fine Artists in Austria” in Schönbrunn Palace.
President
Presidents of the Provincial Association Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland:
1945 - 1946 Buchner Rudolf, 1946 - 1954 Stemolak Karl, 1954 - 1956 Obsieger Robert, 1956 - 1968 Kronik Paul, 1968 - 1976 Anselm Grand, 1976 - 1983 Mohorko Johann, 1983 - 1984 Loinger Viktor, 1984 - 2006 Strasil Walter, 2006 - 2016 Novak Karl, 2016 - Zierl Berthild
President of the Central Association:
1950 - 1954 Stemolak Karl, 1954 - 1959 Obsieger Gerhard, 1959 - 1968 Rippel Karl, 1968 - 1976 Grand Anselm, 1976 - 1980 Kucher Erich, 1980 - 1983 Mohorko Johann K., 1983 - 2000 Swetina Hansjörg, 2000 - 2004 Jeschofnig Harry, 2004 - 2007 Gartner Joachim L., 2007 - 2015 Novak Karl, 2015 Reinwein Rikki
Known members
The most famous members included Friedrich Aduatz , Gustinus Ambrosi , Robin C. Andersen , Hans Babuder , Werner Berg , Eduard Bäumer , Franz Barwig , Otto Beckmann , Hubert Berchtold , Maria Biljan-Bilger , Hans Bren , Norbertine Bresslern-Roth , Albert Birkle , Herbert Boeckl , Arthur Brusenbauch , Arnold Clementschitsch , Alfred Cossmann , Wilhelm Dachauer , Hugo Darnaut , Ernst Degasperi , Michael Dobril , Josef Dobrowsky , Rudolf Eisenmenger , Franz Elsner , Josef Engelhart , Carl Fahringer , Max Fellerer , Anton Filkuka , Paul Flora , Max Frey , Ernst Fuchs , Helene Funke , Oskar Gawell , Alfred Gerstenbrand , Wilhelm Gösser , Anselm Grand , Christa Hauer , Richard Harlfinger , Karl Hauk , Carry Hauser , Hilde Heger , Josef Hoffmann , Ernst Huber , Josef Humplik , Wolfgang Hutter , Hans Jaksch , Albert Janesch , Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel , Wilhelm Kaufmann , Jan Milan Krkoška , Hugo Franz Kirsch , Alfred Kubin , Oskar Laske , Maria Lassnig , Fritz Martinz , Gerda Matejka- Felden , Kurt Moldovan , Arnulf Neuwirth , Ernst Paar , Sergius Pauser , Adalbert Pilch , Hans Robert Pippal , Rudolf Pleban , Michael Powolny , Igo Pötsch , Lois Pregartbauer , Heribert Potuznik , Otto Prutscher , Carlos Riefel , Otto Rudolf Schatz , Victor Slama , Karl Sterrer , Ferdinand Stransky , Karl Stemolak , Siegfried Theiss , Otto Trubel , Max Weiler , Heinrich Zita , Franz von Zülow and Hedwig Zum Tobel .
Archive and museum space
The extensive archive, which has been looked after by Karl Novak (President from 2006 - 2016) since 1998, who u. a. which introduced additional digitization of the files is located in the offices in Schönbrunn Palace. The holdings of the archive include:
- Personnel files and correspondence from artists residing in Vienna who were members of the “Reich Chamber of Fine Arts” in Vienna between 1938 and 1945 or who applied for membership
- Personnel files and correspondence from artists who have been members of the professional association of visual artists in Austria's regional organization in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland since 1945 or who have applied for membership.
- Files with correspondence between the professional association and ministries, offices, authorities and associations, documents on previous exhibitions.
- A collection of the BV notices and the club newspapers.
- A collection of original works: oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, sculptures, which were bought by the social fund at the time, from needy members as support, or donated by members.
The personnel files with passport photos, some of the personal letters, documents, company photos and design drawings contained therein are valuable from a cultural and historical point of view. In over 300 folders and 400 hanging files, over 10,000 existing artists are now stored in alphabetical order. The master data and biographies of all artists are also stored in an Access database.
Parts of the collection of the members' original works are shown in changing exhibitions in the museum room of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists in Schönbrunn Palace.
Publications
A BV magazine appears four times a year. Information on current activities, member exhibitions and future goals fill the booklet. The magazine is available for free at various locations in the contemporary art and cultural scene; members receive a copy free of charge.
literature
- JK Mohorko: The History of the Professional Association of Visual Artists . BV catalog of the anniversary exhibition Vienna / Lower Austria / Bgld. November 1978.
- Art in Motion - 100 Years of the Professional Association of Austrian Fine Artists, 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02568-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Professional association of visual artists in Austria. In: Vienna Wikipedia. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Information and services for artists and cultural workers in Austria. In: Website of the Federal Chancellery, Art and Culture. Federal Chancellery Section II: Art and Culture Concordiaplatz 2, 1010 Vienna, accessed on July 23, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Diary of the first major art exhibition after World War II - kept in the archive of the Professional Association of Austrian Fine Artists, Schönbrunn Palace, Ovalstiege 40, 1130 Vienna