Dortmund group

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founding January 28, 1956
Seat Dortmund
Website dortmundergruppe.jimdofree.com

The Dortmund Group is a Dortmund artists' association. It was founded on January 28, 1956 in Dortmund in the restaurant "Die Laterne". The painter Harry Breuer was elected as the first chairman and the painter and graphic artist Harry Fränkel was elected deputy chairman .

Other co-founders of the group were Erich Ludwig, Lieselotte Minners-Weise, Otto Bahrenburg, Otto-Karl Berghoff, Wilhelm Kronfeld and Isolde Plum.

history

A forerunner of the “Dortmund Group” was the “Dortmund Artists' Association” in the early 1920s. The “Reinoldushof” on Hansaplatz was an important exhibition center for works of fine art in Dortmund at the time. In 1924, the “Dortmunder Künstlervereinigung” took part in the exhibition organized by the “Westphalian Artists and Friends of Art” association, in which 76-year-old Christian Rohlfs and the Hörder sculptor Bernhard Hoetger also took part. Shortly after the beginning of the Third Reich, the “Dortmunder Künstlervereinigung” disbanded in 1934 during a general assembly because the members refused to agree to the dictates of Nazi rule. After the war , after censorship, after tyranny with exclusion, painting bans and the destruction of works of art, especially of the avant-garde, it was important to find your way back to the buried beginnings of modernity. This took place in a lengthy process that led to the establishment of the “Dortmund Group” in 1956.

Artists were represented from the start. The artistic spectrum included painting, graphics and sculpture. The group received public feedback with its first annual exhibition in 1957 in the then new post-war museum for modern art, the Museum Ostwall . The group exhibited here regularly over the next few years. Since then, the Dortmund group has seen it as one of its central tasks to strengthen contacts with artists and artist groups at home and abroad. In particular, the contacts with the Dortmund twin cities are cultivated by the group in order to make the liveliness of the cultural diversity of the region known far beyond Europe. The group supports young artists by participating in exhibitions.

Guest invitations and the exchange of exhibition projects have taken the Dortmund group since 1961 to Denmark, England, France, Greece, Holland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Poland, Romania, Spain, the USSR, Serbia / Montenegro and Hungary.

Bahrenburg Prize - Promotional Prize for young Dortmund artists

Otto Bahrenburg (1908–1997) had a decisive influence on the artistic creation of his hometown. He completed a graphic degree at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dortmund and studied graphics and painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . As a co-founder of the “Dortmund Group”, he served as first and second chairman for 25 years and remained lifelong lifelong as honorary chairman. In 1995 Otto Bahrenburg was awarded the Badge of Honor of the City of Dortmund.

A prize is named after him, which was donated by the artists' association “Dortmunder Gruppe” in 2001 on the occasion of their 45th anniversary. The prize is awarded every five years. It is intended to give a young Dortmund artist start-up support and includes a solo exhibition in the Torhaus Rombergpark municipal gallery and the financing of a catalog for the exhibition.

The previous winners (as of 2016):

  • 2001 - Marianne Putziger
  • 2006 - Xenia Stanek
  • 2011 - Ateliergemeinschaft Salon, Dortmund

Members

Former members since 1956

GR: founding member, †: deceased in the last year mentioned (first year = beginning of membership; second year = end of membership)

  • Roland Altmann, 1925–2012 †
  • Otto Bahrenburg, 1956–1997 †
  • Renate Baldauf, 1975–?
  • Helga Bartsch – Schäfers, 1972–2000 †
  • Liesel Bellmann, 1957–?
  • Otto – Karl Berghoff, GR1956–? ,
  • Alfred Birenheide, GR 1956–1972
  • Harry Breuer, GR1965–1977 †
  • Heinrich Brockmeier, 1975–?
  • Ilse Buchczik, 1972–1997 †
  • Gustav Deppe , 1965–1969
  • Bruno Foltynowicz, 1962–1966 †
  • Hans – Peter Foltynowicz, 1972–1972
  • Wolfgang Fräger , 1956–1983 †
  • Harry Fränkel , GR1956–1970 †
  • Beate Franzen, 1972–1974
  • Max Guggenberger, 1956–1962 †
  • Theo Hölscher , 1962–1966 †
  • Eberhard Hoffmann, 1976–?
  • Robert Imhof, 1966–1996 †
  • Lothar Kampmann , 1965–?
  • Manfred Kassner,? -?
  • Andi Knappe, 1975–?
  • Ulrich Knispel, 1965–1978 †
  • Ariane Koch,? - 2012
  • Erich Krian, 1976–?
  • Wilhelm Kronfeld, 1956–?
  • Manfred Bodo Krüger, 1972–?
  • Carlernst Kürten , 1962–?
  • Erich Ludwig, GR 1956–1986 †
  • Roswitha Lüder , 1962–1969
  • Erich Lütkenhaus, 1976–?
  • Liselotte Minners – Weise, GR1956–1998 †
  • Eva Niestrath – Berger, 1956–1958
  • Put Pevec, 2004 †
  • Heinz Georg Podehl, 2000 †
  • Walter Rabbe, 1976–?
  • Wojtek Sachocki,? -?
  • Gisela Schwarz – Kleegraf, 1976–?
  • Hans Schwegberg, 1961–1963
  • Gine Selle, 2004-2011
  • Juris Soikans, 1975–1995 †
  • Isolde Thiel – Plum, GR 1956–2002 †
  • Karl Tüttelmann, 1962–1988 †
  • Josef Wedewer , 1962–1979 †
  • Garrett Anderson Williams, 2017 †
Active members (as of 2017)
  • Martin Becker
  • Pia Bohr
  • Jan Bormann
  • Marlies Blauth
  • Maria Teresa Crawford Cabral
  • Ulla Dretzler
  • Era Freidzon
  • Mariana González Alberti
  • Ulrike Harbach
  • Sabine Held
  • Gudrun Kattke
  • Silvia Liebig
  • Erwin Löhr
  • Dina Nur
  • Michael Odenwaeller
  • Brian John Parker
  • Monika Pfeiffer
  • Alexander Pohl
  • Christian Psyk
  • Erika A. Schäfer
  • Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Roul Schneider
  • Claudia Terlunen

Web links

literature

  • Dortmund Group (Ed.): Werkschau 2. Eigenverlag, Dortmund 2015, exhibition catalog with a contribution by Alexander Pohl
  • Dortmunder Group (Ed.): 35 years of the Dortmund Group. Helmuth Scholz GmbH & Co KG, Lünen 1992, exhibition catalog with a foreword by Ulla Dretzler
  • Dortmunder Gruppe and Dortmunder Künstlerbund (Ed.): 25 years of the Dortmunder Gruppe and Dortmunder Künstlerbund. Kettler Verlag, Bönen 1980, documentation with contributions by Heinrich Sondermann, Otto Königsberger, Heinz-Georg Podehl, Otto Bahrenburg and Rudolf Wiemer