Dresden Art Cooperative

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Founding invitation and list of founding members from 1836
Newly built artist house in 1908 at Grunaer Strasse 48, corner of Albrechtstrasse

The Dresden Art Cooperative was founded on December 2, 1836 under the name "Dresden Art Association". The founding members included u. a. Ludwig Richter , Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , Ernst Rietschel and Gottfried Semper . Until around 1890, the Dresden Art Cooperative provided the heads of the state and municipal collections, the artistic board members of the Saxon Art Association and represented the interests of the artists in the official art commissions.

history

Dresden artists' association

The official invitation to found the Dresden Art Cooperative was issued on December 1, 1836. The founding meeting took place on December 2. With around 50 artists, a large part of Dresden's entire artistic community was present. It was founded under the name of the Dresden Art Association . The association was intended to promote ideal and social exchange. In the statutes of 1900, the purpose of the association is stated to be “the promotion of the intellectual and material interests of its members, as well as social intercourse among themselves and with art lovers”.

In the years up to 1848 the association achieved an influential position in Dresden. In the aftermath of the Dresden May uprising in the context of the German Revolution of 1848/1849 , numerous associations were officially banned, including the Dresden Artists' Association. Furthermore, regular meetings of the members took place in the inn "Zur Hoffnung" on Tharandter Strasse .

Association of Saxon visual artists / Younger artists' association

After the official lifting of the ban in 1854, the association was temporarily continued in two groups, the "Association of Saxon Visual Artists" (also "Association of Independent Visual Artists") and the "Younger Artists' Association". The personal composition of the Dresden Artists' Association was retained and the files and property were also taken over, so that one can assume that the association will continue under various names.

Dresden Art Cooperative

“Karikatu”, the festival of caricatures, on February 19, 1925 in the Künstlerhaus

On October 3, 1867, the two groups joined together in what was then called the Dresden Art Cooperative . The association came about, among other things, against the background of the planned and government-supported construction of an artist house. A financial basis of 15,832 thalers was created in 1865 through the raffle for pictures and private donations . Nevertheless, 43 years would pass before the artist house of the Dresden Art Cooperative could be inaugurated in 1908.

Members of the second half of the 19th century included u. a. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Ernst Hähnel , Carl Bantzer and Gotthardt Kuehl . Already during this time there were exhibitions in the orangery building , in the Dresden armory and in the technical university , which were later replaced by the regular annual exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus and in the Saxon Art Association on Brühl's terrace . The Dresden Art Cooperative also organized a large number of festivals in which the Saxon royal family , including King Albert, regularly took part.

Festivals (selection)

The traditional festivities of the Dresden Art Cooperative also included the Epiphany with song and parade. In the post-war period, this tradition was continued with the annual “Karikatu” [ sic ] artist festival, the festival of caricatures.

First Dresden Secession 1893

In 1893, the Free Association of Dresden Artists and the Dresden Association of Visual Artists around Carl Bantzer and Gotthard Kuehl that followed a year later, the first Dresden Secession split from the art cooperative. Its members turned away from traditional history painting and devoted themselves to an impressionistic open - air painting .

Under the influence of the Secession, the Dresden Art Cooperative strengthened artistic versus purely social activities and organized more extensive exhibitions. With Gotthardt Kuehl's appointment in 1895, Carl Bantzer in 1896 and Otto Gussmann in 1897 at the Royal Art Academy in Dresden , the secession movement was soon firmly anchored in the academic art scene again. Due to differences of opinion, the Association of Visual Artists dissolved at the end of 1900. The former secessionists rejoined the Dresden Art Cooperative in 1902, almost completely.

Artist house

The construction of an artist's house was originally planned on Ostra-Allee opposite the Zwinger . These plans were given up at the general meeting of the Dresden Art Cooperative in 1901 in favor of a location on Grunaer Strasse . On October 4, 1908, at 48 Grunaer Strasse at the corner of Albrechtstrasse, the Dresden Art Cooperative's artist house , designed according to a design by Richard Schleinitz and realized at a cost of RM 580,000, was officially inaugurated. The city of Dresden paid 80,000 RM for the implementation of the artist house. The building contained u. a. a lecture and concert hall with a skylight for 600 people, two smaller lecture halls, cozy club rooms and a restaurant in the basement. In 1929 an additional extension was made by converting the artist cellar and doubling it in size.

Dissolution in 1939

The anniversary exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Dresden Art Cooperative only took place in 1938 due to the politically difficult circumstances of the time. In 1939 the Dresden Art Cooperative was dissolved together with the German Association of Artists, the Association of Artists and the Association of Creative Artists and integrated into the Dresden Artists Association , which dominated the exhibition in Dresden from 1940.

Exhibition posters

See also

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 .
  • A. Werner Vogel, Eberhard Vogel: Dresden Art Cooperative . In: Otto Pilz: academic animal sculptor; (1876-1934); his life and work . VDS, Verlag Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-728-3 , p. 33 .
  • HL: One Hundred Years of Dresden Art Cooperative: Anniversary exhibition organized by the Dresden Art Cooperative from April 13 to May 22, 1938. Sächsischer Kunstverein Brühlsche Terrasse . Saxon Art Association, Dresden 1938, p. 10–13 (Due to the political circumstances of the time, the anniversary exhibition was not held until 1938 with a delay).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HL: One Hundred Years of Dresden Art Cooperative: Anniversary exhibition organized by the Dresden Art Cooperative from April 13 to May 22, 1938. Sächsischer Kunstverein Brühlsche Terrasse . Saxon Art Association, Dresden 1938, p. 11 .
  2. ^ Dresden Art Cooperative: Articles of Association of the Dresden Art Cooperative. 1900, accessed May 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . 13th year, no. 8 . Seemann, Leipzig 1901, p. 123 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . 27th year, no. 34 . Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 335 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . No. 5 . Bruckmann, Munich 1908, p. 127–128 ( digitized version - contains a picture of the artist house).