The shore (artist group)

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The bank was called a group of Dresden artists founded by Siegfried Donndorf in 1947 , including Paul Sinkwitz .

history

The artist group was founded on Donndorf's initiative in March 1947 under the name “ Das Ufer. Group of 1947 Dresden Artists ”. Its members participated in the artistic implementation and communication of socialist content, whereby they had an educational focus. The writer Kurt Liebmann , with whom Donndorf was friends, gave the group opportunities for exhibitions and discussed them benevolently in daily newspapers.

The first group exhibition took place from the end of April to the end of May 1947 in the Bautzen City Museum . Liebmann gave the opening speech, participants in the exhibition were Rudolf Bergander , Siegfried Donndorf, Heinz Eichler , Rudolf Löhner , Rudolf Nehmer , Karl-Erich Schaefer , Ewald Schönberg , Fritz Skade and the sculptor Rudolf Wittig .

program

In the draft of their founding manifesto, the artist group describes their goal as follows:

"Our common goal is decided in the respective personality of the individual artist."

- The bank, 1947

The group name and its logo should therefore serve as a symbol for the “ground of reality with its unconsumed, always rich and varied forms”. It was her claim to counter the lack of personal sensitivities with a supra-personal symbol of artistic will. The group wanted to "preserve what greater recognized good and valid" so that they "bring comfort and joy, shock and elevation to their fellow men."

Towards the end of this phase of new beginnings, structures of the GDR cultural enterprise emerged, which claimed the authority to interpret the meaning and function of the visual arts. The artist group now had to develop adaptation strategies in order to be able to preserve their existence. This adjustment took place largely unconsciously, but externally recognizable it led to a gradual transformation of the self-determined artist groups into brigades and collectives . The bank officially dissolved on March 5, 1952 in the course of the disconnection and synchronization of all artistic groups, the members were taken over into the Artists' Association of the GDR , where they continued to exist informally as a collective. In 1954, for example, they carried out a group exhibition at the MTS Barnitz "Thomas Müntzer" as the "artist collective Das Ufer, Dresden". The cohesion only ended with the death of Siegfried Donndorf in 1957.

Exhibitions

  • 1947: The shore. Group of 1947 Dresden artists , spring exhibition in the Bautzen City Museum , organized by the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany, Bautzen activity group, May 1947
  • 1948: Das Ufer, group of 1947 Dresden artists in the FDGB , February 1948, Meißen City Museum
  • 1949: The shore. Group of Dresden artists 1947 , art exhibition in 3 successive parts, painting, graphics, sculpture, from June 4 to October 31, 1949 in the exhibition rooms of the Rudolf Richter art dealer, Dresden
  • 1950: Das Ufer , company exhibition in the State Printing House of Saxony from April 17 to 22, 1950, Dresden
  • 1950: The shore. Group 1947 Dresden artists , exhibition April 29 to June 3, 1950, Kunstkabinett Prenzlauer Berg, Magistrate of Greater Berlin, Department of Public Education, Main Office for Science and Art
  • 1951: The shore. Group 1947 Dresden artists , exhibition 1951, State Art Collections , Dresden
  • 1951: The shore. Group of 1947 Dresden artists , traveling art exhibition through West Saxony, February 17 to March 11, 1951, Municipal Museum, Glauchau
  • 1954: MTS Barnitz Thomas Müntzer, artist collective Das Ufer , Dresden
Memorial exhibition
  • 1984: The shore. Group of 1947 Dresden artists. Painting, graphics, plastic 1947-52, Pretiosensaal Dresdner Schloss from September 12 to October 14, 1984

Members

See also

literature

  • Kurt Liebmann: "Das Ufer", Dresden artist group 1947 . In: Bildende Kunst 1959, pp. 825–830.
  • Artur Dänhardt: The shore. A Dresden artist community In: Bildende Kunst 1971, pp. 198–200.
  • The shore. Group of 1947 Dresden artists. Painting, graphics, plastic 1947–52. Exhibition in the Pretiosensaal Dresdner Schloß from September 12 to October 14, 1984. Biographies, text and image selection: Gert Pinzer. Catalog editor: Elisabeth Heinrich. Office for Fine Arts of the Dresden District Council, Dresden 1984.
  • Rolf Stachowski: Das Ufer - Group 1947 Dresden artists. Memory of the beginning . In: Bildende Kunst , 1985, pp. 63–72.
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-0400-1 , pp. 346-348 No. 219.
  • Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? Artists groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , pp. 128ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Quoted from Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? Artists groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . transcript Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 128 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? Artists groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . transcript Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 128 ff., from this also the quotations from the manifesto.
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog in the SLUB Dresden