The art warden

The art warden
description	German art magazine
publishing company	Verlag Kunstwart, Dresden and Callwey, Munich
First edition	1887
attitude	1937
Frequency of publication	per month
Sold edition	1904: 22,000 copies
editor	Ferdinand Avenarius , Wolfgang Schumann , Hermann Rinn

Der Kunstwart was a German magazine for poetry, theater, music, fine arts and applied arts.

history

The Kunstwart was published from 1887 to 1894 by Kunstwart Verlag in Dresden and then from 1894 to 1937 by Callwey Verlag in Munich . The editors were Ferdinand Avenarius (1887–1923), Wolfgang Schumann (1924–1926) and Hermann Rinn (1926–1937). The Kunstwart made until the beginning of World War I in 1914 an important contribution to the cultural education of the youth, especially students and primary school teachers, and was a part of the Reform Movement .

In order to connect readers and sympathizers of the Kunstwart in one institution, the Dürerbund was founded in 1902 by Avenarius in collaboration with the art historian Paul Schumann as the most important educational reform association in the German Reich . In 1904 the Kunstwart reached its first peak with 22,000 subscribers. After 1937 it was included in the magazine Das Innere Reich .

The magazine dealt with all questions of contemporary art at that time as well as with the "position of the arts in the life of the individual and the nation, about their relationship to today's society and to today's state" and adopted a bourgeois-conservative attitude.

Title (selection)

The art warden appeared with changing titles and subtitles:

• The art warden. A survey of all areas of beauty (1887–1897)
• The art warden. Review of poetry, theater, music, visual and applied arts (1896-1897)
• The art warden. Semi-monthly review of poetry, theater, music, visual and applied arts (1897–1907)
• The art warden. Semi-monthly show for expressive culture in all areas of life (1907–1912)
• The art warden and culture warden. Semi-monthly show for expressive culture in all areas of life (1912–1915)
• German will (war edition 1914-1919)
• Art warden and culture warden. Semi-monthly show for expressive culture in all areas of life (1919–1925)
• The art warden. German Service to the Spirit (1925–1926: Editing Wolfgang Schumann; 1926–1928: Editing Hermann Rinn)
• The art warden. Monthly magazine for art. Literature and Life (1928–1932)
• German magazine. Monthly booklets for a German folk culture (1932–1937)
• Independent monthly issues for the political and intellectual shaping of the present
• Bimonthly issues for a German folk culture (1935–1937)

Authors

The authors of this theater and culture magazine included:

Wilhelm Altmann Hermann Bahr Adolf Bartels Richard Batka Wilhelm Boelsche Arthur Bonus Marianne Bruns Hans Carossa Friedrich Carstanjen Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Moritz Goldstein Karl Hanusch

Julius Hart Theodor Heuss Paul Heyse Hugo von Hofmannsthal Christian Morgenstern Ernst Penzoldt Peter Rosegger Albrecht Schaeffer Heinrich Schenker Paul Schultze-Naumburg Elisabeth Siewert Karl Söhle

Hans Sommer Carl Spitteler Ernst Troeltsch Regina Ullmann Oskar Walzel Leopold Weber Margarete Weinhandl Manfred Wittich

literature

• The art warden (microfiche edition). 53,514 p. On 646 microfiches in cassette. Erlangen: Harald Fischer Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-89131-468-X
• Herbert Broermann: The art warden in his peculiarity, development and importance. Munich: Callwey 1934.
• Monika Dimpfl: The magazines Der Kunstwart, Freie Bühne / Neue Deutsche Rundschau and papers for art: Organization of the literary public around 1900 . In: Monika Dimpfl / Georg Jäger (ed. On behalf of the Munich research group "Social history of German literature 1770-1900"): On the social history of German literature. Individual studies, part II . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1990, pp. 117–197 (studies and texts on the social history of literature, vol. 28). ISBN 3-484-35028-8
• Peter Goßens: The art warden. In: Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Handbook of Antisemitism. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 7: Literature. Film, theater and art . Berlin; Munich; Boston: de Gruyter Saur, 2014, pp. 271–273.
• Franz Heim: The art warden as an educator. Munich: Univ. Diss. 1946.
• Ingrid Koszinowski: On the poetry of the work of art. On the reception of art around 1900 using the example of the criticism of painting by the magazine “Kunstwart”. Hildesheim u. a .: Olms 1985. (= Studies on Art History; 36) ISBN 3-487-07603-9
• Gerhard Kratzsch: Kunstwart and Dürerbund. A contribution to the history of the educated in the age of imperialism. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht 1969.
• Elisabeth Mylarch: Academy criticism and modern art movement in Germany around 1900. To understand the historical, cultural ideological and art market political implications of the art judgment on modern painting in the art and culture magazines Gesellschaft, Kunstwart and Freie Bühne. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1994. (= Europäische Hochschulschriften; Series 28, Art History; 201) ISBN 3-631-47246-3
• Werner Spies: The literary taste at the end of the 19th century as seen in German magazines. Bonn: Univ. Diss. 1953.

Web links

• Wikisource: Directory of digital copies
• The Kunstwart publishing house in the Stadtwiki Dresden
• The art warden: A survey of all areas of the beautiful. Monthly issues for art, literature and life - digital from the Heidelberg University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Goßens: Der Kunstwart in Benz (2015), p. 271
2. ↑ "German Will - Des Kunstwarts 32nd Year", March 2nd, 1919 (XXXII, 12)