The seven arts

The seven arts is under monument protection standing glass screen in the canteen and cultural buildings of the SKL in Magdeburg district Salbke .

location

The canteen building is located directly on Alt Salbke street north of the main entrance to the plant. It dominates the very high and steep vestibule and is integrated into the east wall of the building.

Design and history

The picture was created by Walter Bischof around 1951 . The rectangular, upright format picture is framed in a copper frame. It depicts the arts of poetry, music, drama, dance, architecture and sculpture on 3 by 4 meters with great color and makes use of a modern, abstract language of forms. The production was laboriously using lead glazing . Other creative means used are ground glass , selective painting and flashed glass .

With the glass painting, the artist followed up on the forms of the 1920s in the post-war period. The forms of expression that were no longer permitted during the Nazi era, such as constructivism , cubism and new objectivity , were continued. The restrictions that had already arisen or existed in the Soviet occupation zone or later GDR due to the effects of Stalinism , which in particular resulted from the so-called formalism dispute , led to socialist realism , had no influence on this work.

The glass picture is considered to be an outstanding art-historical testimony to the attempt to continue modernism in the post-war period.

After 1990, at the suggestion of Reginald Richter, the glass picture was included in the list of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

literature

• List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 14. State capital Magdeburg. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , pp. 49-50.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 14. State capital Magdeburg, State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 50.
2. ^ Reginald Richter: Glasgestaltung Magdeburg, attempt to take stock. Ed. Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg 2002, p. 28 PDF ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 6.6 "  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 42.7"  E