Society of German Watercolor Artists

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The Society of German Watercolorists was an association of German watercolor painters . It was founded in Berlin in 1891 with the aim of promoting German watercolor painting in general.

history

The Society of German Watercolorists was founded in Berlin in May 1891, inspired by the British Royal Watercolor Society, which had existed since 1804 . The founding members were five painters: Franz Skarbina and Hans Herrmann from Berlin, Arthur Kampf from Düsseldorf, Hans von Bartels from Munich and Max Fritz from Dresden. Franz Skarbina took over the chairmanship.

The artists wanted to organize special watercolor exhibitions in Berlin , which should then be shown as traveling exhibitions in Germany. This was intended to make watercolor painting, which is far behind oil painting in the favor of buyers and artists, better known in the country and receive the appreciation it deserves. Various Berlin galleries acted as exhibition venues, such as the Amsler & Ruthardt Gallery (from 1892), the Gurlitt Gallery (1896), the Eduard Schulte Gallery (1898), the Künstlerhaus of the Berlin Artists Association (1899) and the gallery Keller & Reiner (1900).

The members, whose number rose from the five founders to around 20 by 1900, included well-known artists such as Carl Bantzer , Gregor von Bochmann , Karl Breitbach , Ludwig Dettmann , Ludwig Dill , Dora Hitz , Julian Fałat , Walter Leistikow , Max Liebermann , Paul Meyerheim , Alexander Schmidt-Michelsen , Friedrich Stahl , Hugo Vogel , Friedrich Wahle and Julius Wengel . Some of these artists were also members of the XI . Guests were also invited to the exhibitions, such as Paul Bach , Rudolf Dammeier , Willy Hamacher and Max Uth .

Other associations with a similar background were the Belgian Société royale belge des aquarellistes , founded in 1856 , the Dutch Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij (1876), in France the Société des aquarellistes français (around 1879) or the Austrian Watercolorists Club , located at the Künstlerhaus Vienna (1885).

literature

  • Sabine Meister: The Association of the XI. The group of artists as the nucleus of organized modernism in Berlin. Inaugural dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg i. B., 2005, p. 405 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German Watercolor Artists. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. New episodes, Volume 3, 1892, p. 330
  2. ↑ The names of the members and guests are taken from the articles on the society in the Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , beginning with: New Episodes, Volume 3, 1892.
  3. ^ The first Paris watercolor exhibition. In: Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , Volume 14, 1879, pp. 677–678.
  4. ^ The first exhibition of the Viennese watercolorists. In: Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , Volume 21, 1886, pp. 545–553.