The blue four

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Galka Scheyer with Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee and Jawlensky, collage on a newspaper page of the “ San Francisco Examiners ” dated November 1, 1925

The Blaue Vier was an exhibition group that was founded in Weimar in March 1924 . It included four painters, the three Bauhaus masters: Lyonel Feininger , Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee as well as Alexej von Jawlensky .

importance

It was Galka Scheyer (1889–1945), a German-American painter, art dealer and collector, who brought these artists together in memory of the epochal work of the Der Blaue Reiter editorial team . “The Blue Four” initially exhibited primarily in the Bauhaus environment, and since they were friends, its members exchanged their works with one another. Thanks to Galka Scheyer, who also coined the name, an exhibition tour made it possible to make the works and artists known in the USA. To this end, she contacted a number of American universities, museums, and art associations and gave numerous lectures on the role of art in society over the next few years.

Scheyer placed the works of the four Blue Kings , as they also called them, in the collections of Fritz Lang , Josef von Sternberg , Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo , which were later rated as important. She thus made a contribution to the dissemination of the artistic ideas of these German and Russian artists in America, which at the time was rather reserved towards modern art . The commitment of Galka Scheyer thus marks the beginning of the international fame that Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee achieved with their art after the Second World War .

literature

  • Bernd Fäthke, Scheyer, “the other blue ones” and Jawlensky, in exhib. Cat .: Alexej Jawlensky, heads etched and painted, Die Wiesbadener Jahre, Galerie Draheim, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 21 ff. ISBN 978-3-00-037815-7
  • Galka E. Scheyer & Die Blaue Vier: Correspondence 1924-1945 ; edited and commented by Isabel Wünsche. - Wabern: Benteli, 2006, ISBN 3-7165-1429-2
  • Vivian Endicott Barnett and Josef Helfenstein: Die Blaue Vier , DuMont 1997, catalog

Web links

Commons : The Blue Four  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The large art lexicon by PW Hartmann: Blaue Vier
  2. ↑ Homage to great artists: "The Blue Four" - an exhibition ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ The blue four - painter in the environment of the blue rider , kunstagentur-hoffmann.de