The Rhineland

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The Rhineland - monthly for German art

description German art and culture magazine
publishing company Publisher August Bagel
First edition October 1900
attitude 1922
Frequency of publication per month
editor Wilhelm Schäfer

The Rhineland , sub-title monthly for German art , later monthly for German art and art or monthly for German art and poetry , was a culture magazine that was published since October 1900 on behalf of the GmbH "Rheinische Kunstzeitschrift" by the writer Wilhelm Schäfer at the August Bagel publishing house in Düsseldorf and was published monthly until 1922.

history

An art commission, which was mainly composed of members of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten , developed the idea for the magazine. One of the main initiators was Fritz Koegel , then director of the Ernst Sieglin company - Dr. Thompson's soap powder and chairman of the Free Literary Association founded in Düsseldorf in 1899. The magazine saw itself, as the secondary title puts it, as an art and culture magazine about "German art". The main focus of the reports was on the cultural and artistic events in the " Rhineland ", which at the time not only included the Prussian Rhine Province , but also as "the countries on the Rhine" in the sense of a cultural area that cannot be clearly demarcated along the Rhine - from the German-speaking part of Switzerland on the upper Rhine and the Alsace to the Lower Rhine - were understood. According to the understanding of its creators, it was important to "rediscover" the Rhineland as a cultural landscape or cultural area. Prominent cultural workers contributed to the magazine, such as Hermann Hesse , Alfons Paquet , Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , Robert Walser and Peter Behrens . Three years after the magazine was published, the editor Wilhelm Schäfer began to initiate the Association of Art Friends in the countries on the Rhine . Its founding meeting took place in 1904. The association, which had been the publisher of the newspaper Die Rheinlande since 1905 and was under the patronage of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt , enthusiastic representatives from art, politics and business in West German cities for the idea of ​​an artist community on the Rhineland scene.

literature

  • Sabine Brenner: “Awaken the Rhineland from its slumber!” To the profile of the cultural magazine Die Rheinlande (1900–1922) . Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 978-3-89978-022-2
  • Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Hügel: German literary magazines 1880–1945. A repertory . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10646-7 , p. 1034 ( Google Books )
  • Otto Doderer : The Rhineland. History of a magazine . In: Dicht und Volkstum , 39, 1938, pp. 69–85

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Heine Institute : The Rhineland . Data sheet in the portal deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de , accessed on June 21, 2015
  2. ^ Founding appeal of the "Association of Art Friends in the Countries on the Rhine" , website in the portal literatur-archiv-nrw.de , accessed on June 21, 2015
  3. ^ The other modernism - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922 , website in the portal karlsruhe.de , accessed on June 21, 2015