Green-White (artist group)

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Poster by Max Frey for the exhibition by the Grün-Weiß group in the Emil Richter art salon, 1910

The artist group Grün-Weiß was formed in 1910 in Dresden a . a. around Johann Walter-Kurau , Max Frey , Josef Goller , Georg Jahn and Georg Lührig .

history

The Grün-Weiß group was formed as a pure exhibition group within the Dresden Art Cooperative . On the poster designed by Max Frey for the 1910 exhibition in the Emil Richter art salon , the name was “Gruppe Grün-Weiß. Dresden Art Cooperative ”. Green and white are the state colors of Saxony . The pre-announcement of the exhibition read:

“A new artists' association“ Grün-Weiss ”will appear for the first time in front of the public with an exhibition of works of painting, graphics and sculpture, which will open on Saturday 29th in Emil Richter's art salon. The new group, which painted the cheerful colors of the Sachsenland on their sign, does not want to have given any reason for profound programmatic interpretations. Those who feel like it, like the fact that these are members of an established organization, the Dresden Art Cooperative, and the desire of these artists to speak in a natural, fresh, native language, expressed in the name Find. In connection with the reorganization of the art cooperative, which was carried out this year, the new group was created, and in it a number of older, well-known artists have united with younger forces in order to show their work from now on in smaller, carefully worked out exhibitions To bear witness. The painting and graphics are by Prof. Max Frey , Prof. Josef Goller , Prof. Friedrich Heyser , Georg Jahn , Walther Illner , Georg Lührig , Prof. Max Pietschmann , Freih. von Schlippenbach and Walter-Kurau , the sculpture by Prof. Richard Guhr , Prof. Hans Hartmann-Maclean and Heinrich Wedemeyer , the architecture by Rudolf Bitzan , Georg von Mayenburg and Martin Pietzsch . The names of the members, who have only sent new works that have not yet been seen here, vouch for an exhibition that will be able to count on serious interpretation in Dresden's art scene. "

Bernhard Schröter also took part in the 1910 exhibition . The exhibition lasted from October 29 to November 10, 1910. A total of 85 works were shown.

Willy Doenges described the members of the group in the magazine Cicerone as “... secessionists within the cooperative who are furthest to the left, i. H. artist closest to so-called modern art ”. This assignment is to be understood against the background of the first Dresden Secession , which was formed around the turn of the century under the leadership of Carl Bantzer and Gotthardt Kuehl from the group of the Goppelner School . The painters Georg Jahn, Georg Lührig and Max Pietschmann came from this area. Stylistically close to the Goppelner School was Johann Walter-Kurau, who had moved from Latvia to Dresden in February 1906 at the invitation of his national Baron Paul von Schlippenbach. Josef Goller took part in the artist group Die Elbier , which had formed in 1902 after the end of the first Dresden secession in the vicinity of Gotthard Kuehl.

In November 1909, u. a. on the background of the Dresden artist dispute the Artists Association Dresden . With around 50 members, it was the second larger artists' association in Dresden alongside the traditional and conservative Dresden Art Cooperative. The first exhibition of the artists' association took place from the beginning of September to the end of November 1910 in the rooms of the Saxon Art Association on the Brühlsche Terrasse ( art hall in the Lipsius building ). As a progressive group within the Dresden Art Cooperative, the Grün-Weiß group presented its works from October 29, 1910 in the Emil Richter Art Salon.

Only the organization of the 1910 exhibition in the Emil Richter Art Salon is known of the Grün-Weiß group . As a successor, Johann Walter-Kurau founded the Dresden artist group in 1913, in which some of the members of the Grün-Weiß group again participated. The Dresden artist group in 1913 was also announced as a "sensational secession".

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 .

See also

literature

  • 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 ( digital copy [PDF]).
  • 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 comprehensive list of literature on historical newspaper articles relating to the exhibition of the Grün-Weiß group from 1910).
  • Willy Doenges: From the Dresden art salons . In: 1st supplement to the Dresdner Journal . 263, November 12th. Dresden 1910 ( digitized version - review of the exhibition).
  • Paul Fechter: Green and White . In: Dresdner Latest News . 18th year, 305, November 9th. Dresden 1910, p. 1 ( digitized version - review of the exhibition).
  • RS: The artists' association Grün-Weiß at Richter . In: Dresdner Anzeiger . Volume 181, 308, November 8th. Dresden 1910, p. 3–4 ( digitized version - review of the exhibition).
  • HA Lier: "Green-White" . In: Dresdner Nachrichten . 305, November 5th. Dresden 1910 ( digitized version - review of the exhibition).
  • The artists' association “Green-White” . In: Dresdner Latest News . Volume 18, 295, October 29. Dresden 1910, p. 2 ( digitized version ).
  • Exhibition by the Grün-Weiß Dresden Art Cooperative: October 29, 1910 . Emil Richter, Dresden 1910 (exhibition catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A new artists' association . In: Supplement to Dresdner Journal . 251, October 28. Dresden 1910 ( digitized ).
  2. ^ Emil Richter Art Salon . In: 1st supplement to the Dresdner Journal . 257, November 5th. Dresden 1910 ( digitized ).
  3. ^ Willy Doenges: Exhibition of the group "Green-White" . In: Dresdner Journal . 252, October 29. Dresden 1910, p. 6 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Willy Doenges: Exhibitions - Dresden . In: Cicerone . 2nd year, no. 22 , 1910, pp. 756-758 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Art News. Supplement to the art world . III. Year, no. 19/20 . Berlin 1914, p. 97 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ 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 ( digital copy [PDF]).