German Art Council

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The Deutsche Kunstrat eV is an art organization founded in 1954 that has set itself the task of spreading German art at home and abroad.

history

The association emerged in 1954 from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst , which was founded in August 1949 on the initiative of Otto Benecke . This emergency community united associations of the visual arts, music, literature and the performing arts in order to jointly devote themselves to the maintenance of art. The task was determined in 1952 at the suggestion of Federal President Theodor Heuss as “promoting art and artists on a non-profit basis”, and the emergency community was entered in the register of associations.

Under a new name, Der Verein first went public in 1954 at a press conference at its headquarters in Cologne. Theodor Steltzer was President of the Art Council, and Paul Luchtenberg became its second chairman . Ernst Otto Thiele later became Secretary General.

From the beginning, the association worked together with other cultural associations - in particular the Deutscher Werkbund , the German Design Council , the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft and the German Künstlerbund . In 1967 the seat was moved to Darmstadt .

Since 1960, funding has largely come from the Foreign Office . In 1970 the task and designation of the German Art Council was assigned to a department at the Institute for Foreign Relations .

Publications (selection)

  • Ernst Thiele (arrangement): Literature on German art of the 20th century. A bibliography of the German Art Council e. V. 1960.
  • Käthe Kollwitz: Engravings, drawings, sculpture. A German Arts Council exhibition. 1967.

literature

  • Federal Archives , "Deutscher Kunstrat eV - Information on the inventory"
  • Ostpreußische Nachrichten, Berlin, August 1, 1954, p. 3, "Deutscher Kunstrat eV founded"

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