Cercle Volney
The Cercle Volney , actually Cercle artistique et littéraire, was a circle of artists and writers in Paris ( 2nd arrdt. ). It was near the opera at number 7 on rue Volney.
Cercle Volney 1955
From April 7 to May 8, 1955, the French art dealer Rene Drouin organized the large exhibition "Peintures et sculptures non figuratives en Allemagne aujourd'hui" (Non-figurative painting and sculpture in Germany today) together with Wilhelm Wessel . Around 100 works by 37 mostly unknown German living artists were exhibited under a glass roof and chandeliers.
"This exhibition is German art, seen by a French and measured by the standards of a French". (Quote)
"The quality of the pictures exhibited here is higher than that of the great American exhibition in the Musée d'Art Moderne". (Quote)
"... that 10 years after the year zero, German artists have reached a height that amazed other countries". (Quote)
It was the first major German art exhibition in Paris for over forty years and is considered one of the most important exhibitions on Informel .
Attendees
- Arno
- Willi Baumeister
- Hubert Berke
- Julius Bissier
- Manfred Bluth
- Karl Friedrich breast
- Carl Buchheister
- Alexander Camaro
- Rolf Cavael
- Joseph Fassbender
- Fathwinter
- Gerhard Fietz
- Rupprecht Geiger
- Karl Otto Götz
- Otto Greis
- HAP Grieshaber
- Guido Jendritzko
- Heinz Kreutz
- Norbert Kricke
- Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff
- Rudolf Mauke
- Georg Meistermann
- Ernst Wilhelm Nay
- Rolf Nesch
- Marie-Louise von Rogister
- Bernard Schultze
- Emil Schumacher
- KRH Sonderborg
- Fred Thieler
- Hann Trier
- Heinz Trokes
- Hans Uhlmann
- Fritz Vahle
- Theodor Werner
- Woty Werner
- Wilhelm Wessel
- Fritz Winter .
literature
There is extensive literature on this exhibition:
- Exhibition brochure "Peintures et sculptures non figuratives en Allemagne d'aujourd'hui".
- The Paris exhibition in the mirror of the press.
- Documents on the German Informel from Galerie Hennemann Bonn.