Association of Visual Artists Dresden

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Kießling and Kuehl on the Dresden exhibition space at the preparatory meeting for an exhibition of the Dresden Association of Fine Artists

The Dresden Association of Visual Artists , also known as the Secession , emerged in 1894 from the Free Association of Dresden Artists founded a year earlier and was a Dresden artists' association around Carl Bantzer and Gotthardt Kuehl . Its members turned away from the traditional history painting of the time and devoted themselves to an impressionistic open - air painting . The group was one of the earliest secessions: Earlier founding took place only in 1891 in Düsseldorf with the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists and in 1892 in Munich with the Association of Munich Artists .

history

Free Association of Dresden Artists

At the end of the 19th century, a strongly conservative, academic style of painting dominated the Royal Art Academy in Dresden . Gotthardt Kuehl and Carl Bantzer had both lived in Paris for a long time and brought new impulses of French impressionism to Dresden. Soon numerous artists were practicing open-air painting. They moved to work in the great outdoors, primarily to Goppeln , south of Dresden. This group of artists became a household name in art history as the Goppelner School .

From this group, an association was formed in 1893 as the "Strehlner local group" of the Dresden Art Cooperative for better representation of interests and for the implementation of open-air painting as an officially recognized artistic direction. As early as August 1893, the independently organized Free Association of Dresden Artists followed with over sixty members . Carl Bantzer was the first chairman and the architect Alfred Moritz Hauschild was second chairman. The members included a. also Robert Diez , Paul Kießling (1836–1919), Julius Graebner and Paul Baum . 44 artists from the Dresden Art Cooperative joined this new artists' association. Dresden was thus also affected by the secession movement that was spreading in Germany at the time.

In the Dresden Art Cooperative, architects and applied arts as well as all those who viewed themselves as artists gathered. The visual artists were in the minority in the art cooperative. Only practicing artists who committed to regularly participate in exhibitions were accepted into the Free Association . The first joint exhibition did not take place until November 1894 in the Lichtenberg art salon .

Association of Visual Artists Dresden

On February 28, 1894, the Association of Visual Artists Dresden emerged from the Free Association . Both Carl Bantzer and Gotthardt Kuehl were founding members of the Munich Secession in 1892 and in 1894 they were the driving force behind the founding of the Dresden Association of Visual Artists , also known as the Secession .

In the Association of Visual Artists Dresden , various groups with very different requirements and different objectives came together to form a rather relaxed group. These included artists from the former “Goppelner Circle” such as Carl Bantzer , Paul Baum , Wilhelm Claudius , Max Pietschmann , Walter Besig and Georg Müller-Breslau , who were artistically close to each other through the characteristics of a landscape painting that stood between naturalism and impressionism . On the other hand, artists such as Hans Unger , Oskar Zwintscher , Sascha Schneider , Georg Lührig , Richard Müller and Otto Gussmann took part , who soon pursued their own artistic goals that were mainly oriented towards symbolism , neoclassicism and art nouveau . Members included Leopold Armbruster , Emanuel Hegenbarth , Georg Jahn , Gotthardt Kuehl and Robert Sterl .

From 1895 to 1896, Carl Bantzer published the “Quarterly Issues of the Association of Visual Artists of Dresden” as the organ of the association. They each contained 20 to 22 panels with images of the members' works. With the exception of the foreword in the first edition by Carl Bantzer, no text contributions have been made.

The main objective of the association was the organization of its own exhibitions, as well as the "cooperative supply of domestic and foreign art exhibitions". Association members were already involved in the academic art exhibition in Dresden in 1894. From November 4 to December 1, 1894, the first joint exhibition followed in Lichtenberg's art salon with Ferdinand Morawe in the Viktoriahaus Dresden . 119 works by 35 members were shown. At the first “great international art exhibition in 1897” in Dresden, the members of the Association of Fine Artists were in the majority and efforts were made to have a say in future Dresden art exhibitions.

With the appointment of Gotthardt Kuehl on April 1, 1895, Carl Bantzer on November 1, 1896 and Otto Gussmann in 1897 to the Royal Art Academy in Dresden, this secession movement was soon firmly anchored in the academic art world. 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. In 1902 some students around Kuehl formed the Elbe group .

See also

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 41-43 .
  • Christel Wünsch: Carl Bantzer and the Goppelner Circle . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 8 . Altenburg printing house, 2002, p. 143-162 .
  • Annegret Laabs: Painting in Dresden. An art on the move? In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 147-154 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misc. Dresden . In: Art Chronicle . 4th year, no. 32 . Seemann, Leipzig 1893, p. 538-539 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Annegret Laabs: Painting in Dresden. An art on the move? In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 148 .
  3. ↑ Bettina Best: Secession and Secessions. Idea and organization of an art movement around the turn of the century. A comparative presentation of the interaction, activities and programs of the German-speaking artists' associations of the Secession. Dissertation University of Munich . Matthes & Seitz, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88221-106-7 , pp. 72, 86 .
  4. ↑ Luise Grundmann (ed.): Der Schraden: a regional study in the area of ​​Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand . Böhlau, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , pp. 44 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ a b Christel Wünsch: Carl Bantzer and the Goppelner Circle . In: Stadtmuseum Dresden (Ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch . tape 8 . Altenburg printing house, 2002, p. 143-162 .
  6. ↑ Carl Bantzer (Ed.): Quarterly books of the Association of Visual Artists Dresden . Issues 1895/1896. Dresden ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ International Art Exhibition Dresden 1897 in the city exhibition palace at the royal large garden. Digital copy of the SLUB . 1897, accessed December 31, 2016 .