Bunt (artist group)
The Polish artist group “Bunt” (German: “ Rebellion ”, Polish: Zrzesenie Artystów “Bunt” ) was founded in 1918 in Poznan . It was closely associated with the bi-weekly art magazine "Zdrój", united expressionist painters and writers and was active until 1920.
history
On April 1, 1918, an exhibition of works by the members of the newly formed group was organized for the first time in the rooms of the Poznan Society of Friends of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Sztuk Pięknych) on Berlińska Street . Due to a public dispute between representatives of the society and the artists, the exhibition later had to be moved to another location. The art magazine “Zdrój” issued a special edition (entitled “Zeszyt Buntu”) on the occasion of the exhibition, in which manifestos, poems and paintings by the artists were published. From June the exhibition was shown in galleries in Berlin and Düsseldorf .
The influential writer Stanisław Przybyszewski , who published in the magazine “Zdrój” and whose ideas were inspiring to the members of the group, initially supports their views. He later criticized the radicalism in the works.
Like other Polish artist groups of the time (the Krakow Expressionists or the Polish Art Club in Warsaw ), the members of Bunt pursued style-forming, anti-naturalist tendencies; thus they treated literature as a means of representing extra-literary reality. The focus was on the effort to express the national characteristics of the Poles and to make a Polish contribution to European culture. The artists were also influenced by German Expressionism.
The group maintained close contacts with German artist movements. The expressionist magazines " Der Sturm " and " Die Aktion " reported on them several times. Bunt also works with the Cracow formists , with whom she organized joint exhibitions in Poznan and Cracow. In 1919 there were also contacts with the artist group Jung Idysz in Łódź .
The year 2003/2004 was held in Poznan National Museum , the "Bunt exhibition. Ekspresjonizm poznański 1917–1925 ”. In 2011 a German-Polish group exhibition ("BUNT - Der Sturm - Die Aktion") was shown in the Muzeum Początków Państwa Polskiego in Gniezno and in the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History in Potsdam .
Members and sympathizers
The poet Adam Bederski was the programmatic head of the group. The German-Polish artist Stanislaw Kubicki emerged as the graphic artist and speaker of the group. Other members of the group were:
References and comments
- ↑ Issues 21–22 and 35–36 / 1918
- ↑ according to Information at Arteon.pl (in Polish, accessed October 12, 2012)
- ↑ according to Website of the museum in Gniezno (in Polish, accessed October 12, 2012)
literature
- Agnieszka Morawińska, Polish painting from the Gothic to the present , Wolfgang Jöhling (transl.), ISBN 83-221-0248-8 , Auriga, Warsaw 1984, p. 49
Web links
- Magdalena Wróblewska, Bunt , December 2010 at Culture.pl (in Polish, accessed October 12, 2012)