The reputation (artist group)

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The call was a Dresden artist group around Edmund Kesting that was founded a few months after the end of the Second World War in the first phase of “awakening and commitment”. The reputation was primarily an artistically motivated association and dissolved again just three years after it was founded.

history

The first of a total of three exhibitions took place on November 11, 1945 under the title “Der Ruf. Liberated art ”in the Green House of Gerhardt Naumann's gallery and art dealership in August-Bebel-Strasse 10 in Dresden-Strehlen. A selection of 57 works was shown over a period of three weeks, some of which were not for sale. In the afterword of the exhibition catalog, the artists wrote: "The choice of pictures had to be based on what has been preserved for us, on what we created in the first weeks after liberation - looking for new ground."

The group called Der Ruf , initiated by Edmund Kesting, was the first newly founded artist group in the area of ​​the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) after the end of the Second World War. In the artist group The call style found predominantly in the classic modernist -oriented artists together. The following took part in the first exhibition in 1945:

The group tried a new beginning with the intention of putting opinions and artistic experiments up for discussion: “... we want to do our part to cultural renewal immediately. We expect inspiration from this exhibition: for us through criticism, for others through our work. We are looking for the new path and know that the more consistently we break with the heresy of the last 12 years, the sooner we will get closer to our goal. ”With the quote from Karl Marx in the exhibition catalog, “ Art should not explain life but change ”, distanced the group turns away from the degradation of art as an illustration and instrument for conveying ideologies.

The following guests took part in the third exhibition on May 23, 1948 at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden : Wolfgang Frankenstein , Ernst Geitlinger , Karl Otto Götz , Otto Hofmann , Juro Kubicek , Fritz Kuhr , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Oskar Nerlinger and Albert Wigand .

Because the group resisted ideological appropriations and because the members preferred an abstract visual language, the group of artists was denied recognition within the framework of the Soviet Zone's official cultural policy. The group disbanded after the third exhibition in 1948. Hans Christoph, Erna Lincke and Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein participated in the artist group The shore .

See also

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 159-160 .
  • Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? : Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 45, 48, 114, 121–122, 129, 132, 153–154 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: The reputation . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 317 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b epilogue of the exhibition catalog from 1945, quoted from: Karin Müller-Kelwing: Die Dresdner Sezession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 160 .
  2. ↑ Will Grohmann : The other side. To the art exhibition "Der Ruf". (PDF) 1948, accessed May 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Wilhelmi: The call . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 317 .

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