The Red Rider

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Der Rote Reiter was a German artist group that was founded in Munich in 1945 .

Origin and history

Erwin Shoultz-Carrnoff , born in East Prussia, founded the artist group Der Rote Reiter in Munich on July 22, 1945 , together with Franz Rudolf Wanka , Otto Speidel and Otto Sliwka , based on medieval knighthood and the old custom of Georgi riding. The Red Rider was a free exhibition community of individual artists and thus resembled the editorial community of the Blue Rider .

At Easter 1946 the military government granted a license to print the first exhibition catalog. It recorded nine artists who belonged to the Red Rider, the founders such as Werner von Houwald and Herbert Molcho and fifteen guests, including Ernst Geitlinger , C.Gunschmann , Wilhelm von Hillern-Flinsch , E. Müller-Kraus , Gabriele Münter and FATh.Winter .

Two years later, in 1948, the Rote Reiter had branches in West Germany; they were in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Berlin. In 1949, three honorary members joined the Red Rider: Willi Baumeister , Max Ackermann and Ida Kerkovius . For the tenth anniversary of the Red Rider in 1956, an exhibition with 165 painters and sculptors from ten European countries and Chile took place in Traunstein and Bad Reichenhall .

At the end of the 1950s, the Red Rider found his meeting place in the Schwabing district of Munich in a gallery restaurant whose regulars' table was the meeting point for artists. Changing exhibitions were shown and international exhibitions were organized from there. This meeting point had to give way to commercial interests in 1972.

After the death of Erwin Shoultz-Carrnoff in July 1990, Gerhard Kuebart took over the management of the Red Rider. He initiated exhibitions in Munich, Würzburg, Bad Salzuflen; the last exhibition took place in 2002 in the Seidlvilla in Munich. The last seat of the Red Rider was at Kurfürstenplatz 6 in Munich. In November 2013, the “Rote Reiter Prize” was awarded for the first time at the Kunstverein Traunstein. It is awarded to artists every two years and is endowed with 1500 euros.

literature

  • Gerhard Kuebart (Ed.): 60 years of the Roter Reiter. Anniversary exhibition 2005 in the State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women, Munich, from June 4 to 28, 2005. [Self-published] Kuebart, Lemgo 2005, 23 pp.
  • Gerhard Kuebart (Hrsg.): International artist group Roter Reiter. Painting - graphics - plastic. Exhibition in the foyer of the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women 31.10. until November 13, 2008. Catalog of the annual exhibition 2008. Verlag Gerhard Kuebart, Lemgo / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811569-1-1 , 19 pp.
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-0400-1 , p. 316: No. 190: Der Rote Reiter .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: die-roten-reiter.de
  2. ↑ Roter Reiter Prize awarded for the first time , www.ovb-online.de, accessed on March 12, 2018