Dresden artist group 1913

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The Dresden artist group in 1913 was formed as a pure exhibition group u. a. around Johann Walter-Kurau , Max Frey and Georg Lührig . The first exhibition took place in February 1914 in the Arnold Gallery in Dresden .

history

The predecessor of the Dresden artist group in 1913 was the Grün-Weiß group , which had already appeared in public in 1910 with an exhibition in the Emil Richter art salon as a progressive wing within the conservative Dresden art cooperative . Johann Walter-Kurau was also involved in the Grün-Weiß group . In 1913 Walter-Kurau suggested the founding of the Dresden artist group in 1913 . Johann Walter-Kurau held the chairmanship of the group.

The Dresden artist group in 1913 was announced as a "sensational secession". This assignment is to be understood on the one hand against the background of the Dresden artist dispute, which was still smoldering at the time, and on the other hand against the background of the first Dresden Secession , which had formed around the turn of the century under the leadership of Carl Bantzer and Gotthardt Kuehl from the circle of the Goppelner School : The Dresdeners Artist group 1913 follows the line and tradition of the Dresden Artistic Association (Sezession) (1893–1900), the subsequent group of Elbians (1902–1909) and the Grün-Weiß group (1910). In the meantime, however, a more modern style had developed with Expressionism in the area around the Brücke (1905).

The first exhibition of the Dresden artist group in 1913 with 261 works took place under the title "Dresden artist group 1913. Exhibition of paintings, graphics, drawings and plastic works" from February 1 to February 21, 1914 in the Arnold Gallery in Dresden. At the opening ceremony were u. a. Present: Prince Johann Georg of Saxony , Minister of State Heinrich Gustav Beck , Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt , Prime Minister Georg von Metzsch-Reichenbach , the General Director of the Royal Court Theater Nikolaus Graf von Seebach , Privy Councilor Dr. Schelcher, privy councilor Woldemar von Seidlitz and the secret councilor Dr. Heyn. Johann Walter-Kurau gave a speech at the opening, which has been partially handed down to the press of the time as a content report:

“The violent excitement that has gripped all areas of art in recent years has also affected the Dresden Art Cooperative, and so this new association is to be seen as a necessary, contemporary reaction of the same. Allow me at this point to show the energetic, sustaining care of the chairman of the Dresden Art Association, Mr. Mayenburg, to be remembered with gratitude, under whose care this reorganization took place as an organizational development. This new, smaller corporation now hopes to provide the necessary artistic factor with easier mobility and thus better meet the needs of the times. "

A month earlier, the much-noticed exhibition “The New Painting. Expressionist exhibition “u. a. shown with works of the bridge and the Blue Rider . At the same time there was an exhibition by Pablo Picasso in the Emil Richter art salon . Against this background, the daily newspaper Dresdner Latest News reported on the front page:

“The Dresden artist group in 1913 will be a solid, capable element in the city's art life. Excitement is not to be feared here. After the tumult of colors that happened recently in these rooms, the Dresden successors now seem particularly gentle and tame. "

Two further exhibitions by the Dresden artist group 1913 have been preserved in July 1915 in the art exhibition hall at the Marientor in Nuremberg and in October 1915 in the Kunstverein Hamburg .

From today's perspective, both the Grün-Weiß artist group and the Dresden artist group in 1913 were moderate attempts to bring movement to the conservative structures of the Dresden Art Cooperative .

Members

The following took part in the 1914 exhibition at Galerie Arnold:

See also

literature

  • Kristiāna Ābele: Johann Walter-Kurau - A biographical overview . In: Ralf F. Hartmann (ed.): Between the Baltic States and Berlin: the painter Johann Walter-Kurau (1869–1932) as an artist and teacher . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-610-6 , p. 74 (Contains a literature list on historical newspaper articles about the Dresden artist group 1913).
  • Kristiāna Ābele: From Impressionism to Modernism - The Stylistic Development of Johann Walter between 1900 and 1930 . In: Lars Olof Larsson (ed.): Studies on history in the Baltic states. Homburg Talks 1999 - 2001 . No. 18 . Martin-Carl-Adolf-Böckler-Foundation, Kiel 2003, p. 87-110 .
  • Ruth Negendanck : The gallery Ernst Arnold (1893–1951). Art trade and contemporary history . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-932124-37-5 , p. 137, 459 .
  • Dresden artist group 1913. Exhibition of paintings, graphics, drawings and plastic works. February 1 to February 21, 1914 . Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden 1914 ( digitized - exhibition catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kristiāna Ābele: Johann Walter (Walter-Kurau) 1869–1932. Summary of the Doctoral Dissertation . Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Art, Riga 2010, ISBN 978-9934-80387-1 , p. 46 ( digitized version ( memento from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]). Johann Walter (Walter-Kurau) 1869–1932. Summary of the Doctoral Dissertation ( Memento from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ The Dresden artist group 1913 . In: Dresdner Nachrichten . 58th year, no. 33 . Dresden February 2, 1914, p. 4 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Art News. Supplement to the art world . III. Year, no. 19/20 . Berlin 1914, p. 97 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ The exhibition of the Dresden artist group in 1913 . In: Dresdner Journal . 26, February 2, 1914, pp. 11 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ The exhibition of the Dresden artist group in 1913 . In: Dresdner Latest News . XXII. Volume, 33, February 4, 1914, p. 2 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Camille Hoffmann: Dresden artist group 1913 . In: Dresdner Latest News . XXII. Volume, 40, February 11, 1914, p. 1 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Susanne Rieger and Gerhard Jochem (eds.): Germany, Germany over everything. The chronicle of 1915 from the administrative report of the city of Nuremberg . Nuremberg 2015, p. 4 ( digital copy [PDF]).
  8. ^ Kunstverein Hamburg: Exhibitions 1858 - 2008. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
  9. ↑ On the death of the Dresden painter Franz Kunz . In: Dresdner Nachrichten . 71st year, no. 341 . Dresden July 22, 1927, p. 4 ( digitized version ).