Darmstadt Secession

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The Darmstadt Secession , also known as the New Darmstadt Secession since it was re-established in 1945 , is an association of visual artists based in Darmstadt .

history

From the Darmstadt Circle of Friends around the late Expressionist magazines Die Dachstube and Das Tribunal. Hessian Radical Sheets (employees included the writer Kasimir Edschmid and the painter Carl Gunschmann, as well as the later politicians Carlo Mierendorff and Theodor Haubach ), the Darmstadt Secession emerged on June 8, 1919, because it “was no longer possible without the young artists visibly influencing them to remain ”(Gunschmann 1956). The first Secession catalog from 1919 says: “Darmstadt feels strong enough to become the artistic capital again from an artistic province; from a metropolis of spiritual reaction a center of new spiritual value creation ”.

The association was founded on June 8, 1919 by a group of 21 “artists who identify themselves as radical”, including the painters Max Beckmann and Ludwig Meidner and the sculptor Well Habicht , with the intention of “the long-required cleaning of bourgeois pollution ".

Numerous exhibitions were held at an early stage, an extensive first took place in the year it was founded in what was then the art gallery at the Rheintor . The show German Expressionism Darmstadt 1920 was of supraregional importance and presented not only works by Expressionists , but also by Cubists , Futurists , Dadaists , Constructivists and representatives of the New Objectivity . Other important exhibitions, some of which were scandalous, followed, such as Deutsche Kunst Darmstadt 1923 and The Beautiful Man in New Art (1929). When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, some of the members of the Secession went into “inner exile”, while others emigrated . Still others joined the resistance against the regime .

After the end of the war, on the assumption that the Darmstadt Secession had been banned in the Third Reich , it was “re-established” in autumn 1945 (“New Darmstadt Secession”). However, no evidence has yet been found for such a ban.

In 1954 Otto Steinert became the first photographer to join the artists' association. From 1966 to 1983 Max Herchenröder was managing director of the Darmstadt Secession.

Today the association has over 100 members all over Germany, over 20% of them in Berlin alone . The board spokesman is Barbara Bredow . Horst Dieter Bürkle has been honorary chairman since 2015.

Annual show and prize for young artists

Every year the Secession organizes an exhibition from the fields of painting , graphics , sculpture and photography on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, as well as various special shows. Since 1975 (usually alternating every two years ) the “Young Artists of the Darmstadt Secession Prize”, currently endowed with 5,000 euros, has been awarded to artists under 40 years old in the fields of painting and sculpture by the HSE Foundation and the City of Darmstadt is financed. Since 1987 a sponsorship award (FP) of currently 2,500 euros has been awarded, sponsored by the Lions Club Darmstadt since 2007 .

Prize winner painting / photography

Prize winner sculpture

Exhibition locations

The works of the artists participating in the 36th annual exhibition were on view in 2011 at four different locations in Darmstadt.

literature

  • Sabine Welsch, Klaus Wolbert (Ed.): The Darmstadt Secession 1919-1997. The art of the 20th century as reflected by an artists' association . Darmstadt 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.darmstaedtersezession.de/chronik/1915-1919/
  2. ↑ Founding Manifesto . In: Das Tribunal , 1st year, issue 6, 1919, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Maria Anwander receives the prize of the Darmstadt Secession endowed with 5000 euros - the sponsorship award goes to Ryo Kato. Retrieved January 7, 2016 .