German paper cutting club
The German Scherenschnittverein e. V. is an association of individuals and institutions, the promotion and maintenance of paper cutting and shadow image do the task. Artists, collectors, museums and academies exchange ideas in this forum about paper cutting, but also about shadow play and other related topics. The seat is in Stuttgart . The association is currently being dissolved.
history
The German Scherenschnittverein was founded in 1995. The founding assembly elected Jürgen Willersinn (chairman), Christa Weber (second chairwoman) and Ursula Kirchner (treasurer) to the board, which initially devoted itself to the publication of a newsletter. It appeared under the title Schwarz Auf Weiß in December 1995 and went to 250 interested parties.
In September 1996 the 1st general meeting took place in Calw-Holzbronn; the association now had 140 members. Claus Weber and Karin Dütz took over the chairmanship. Christa Weber was entrusted with setting up a comprehensive archive. Helmuth Bögel won the competition for a club logo with the scissors witch , which was created on April 11, 1997. Claus Weber formulated the association's tasks as follows: “There has always been kitsch, but who would dare to deny painting the status of 'art' because there are truly kitschy paintings [...]? [...] Artistic freedom must be the top priority in the work and reporting of the German Scherenschnittverein! All experiments with technology and form of expression between traditional and futuristic must find a place, every experiment must be allowed. "
Claus Weber died in February 1998 and Berta von Böventer was elected as his successor by a large majority. In 1999 an information sheet was created for the presentation of the association, which was designed by Hans Ramsteiner, an expert in signatures and silhouette postcards. In 2002 the general assembly in Sebnitz elected Matthias Seeliger as the first chairman. Hartmut Klug , who has set himself the goal of artistic work with children and young people, became his deputy . In 2007 Erich Kaiß was elected chairman, who resigned from office in 2008. After that, the association was initially led provisionally by Hartmut Klug, whom the 2010 general meeting elected as acting chairman.
Today the association has around 300 members all over the world, including in the EU, Australia, China, CIS successor states, Japan, Canada, Switzerland and the USA. Important artists such as the Austrian Gerhard Rühm and the Dutch Gerlof Smit have joined the German Paper Cutting Association. Friendly contacts exist with the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP).
Exhibitions
Parallel to the 4th International Shadow Theater Festival , which is founded by Wolfgang Reusch and organized every three years, the first group exhibition of 60 members took place in Schwäbisch Gmünd in September 1997 . A second exhibition took place in Holzminden, the third in Weilburg an der Lahn. The exhibition, in which 40 silhouette artists took part, was also on view in Berlin and in 2006 in Karin Dütz's silhouette studio in Nuremberg. The catalog under the title Black and White Color referred to the increasingly colored works.
From October 6th to November 10th 2013 the exhibition Sharp Edge - Paper Cutting will take place today in the German Blade Museum in Solingen. Over 100 works by around 50 silhouette artists from the German Scherenschnittverein e. V. as well as guests from contemporary art such as Felix Droese, Gabriele Basch and Zipora Rafaelov.
Publications
Catalogs are published regularly for the group exhibitions; The association realizes literary-artistic projects with annual donations (see literature). The association has had a website since 2000, which now contains information on over 80 historical and current silhouette artists. Since 2002, two issues of the magazine Schwarz Auf Weiß have been published annually , which, in addition to association news, also contain book and exhibition reviews, additional articles on silhouette artists - historical such as Rosa Maria Assing and Ruth Schaumann , but also contemporary ones such as Kara Walker - as well as numerous picture examples. Manuscripts, photos and copies are included in the archive of the German Scherenschnittverein.
literature
- Claus Weber (Ed.) : Paper cuts: paper collages, paper objects. Joint exhibition of the German Scherenschnittverein from September 28 to November 2, 1997, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Museum for Nature and Urban Culture in the "Prediger" . Wendelstein: German paper cutting association 1997
- Matthias Seeliger (Ed.): Cutting marks. Second group exhibition of the German Scherenschnittverein. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2000, ISBN 3-931656-35-7
- Matthias Seeliger (Ed.): Black, White, Color. Third group exhibition of the German Scherenschnittverein. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2005 (Holzmindener Papeterie 7), ISBN 3-931656-77-2 Weblink
- Ursula Kirchner: Brimstone butterfly in April. Silhouettes for poems by Eduard Mörike. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2005 (Holzmindener Papeterie 8), ISBN 3-931656-79-9
- Peter-Christian Wegner: Melchior Grossek (1889–1967). The artistic work of a Berlin priest. Paper cutouts and prints. Mitzkat, Holzminden 2006 (annual gift for the members of the German Scherenschnittverein eV), ISBN 3-931656-87-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.scherenschnitt.org/intern/
- ↑ http://www.scherenschnitt.org/in-eigener-sache-aufloesung-des-deutschen-scherenschnittvereins-ev/
- ↑ Claus Weber: More courage to cut paper! - In: Schwarz Auf Weiß Vol. 6 (1997), H. 3 (July), p. 4.
- ↑ GAP website .