Grazer Zeitkunst
As "Grazer Time Art" , the first intense movement that is modern art before the First World War in Graz called. As early as 1900, artists formed a lively avant-garde art scene. The term was mainly coined by a research project that has existed since 2007 at the Institute for Art History at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz.
history
As early as 1899, Hermann Bahr stated: "Things are moving in the provinces". Around 1900 numerous modernization measures and restructuring took place in Graz's art scene. The Steiermärkischer Kunstverein reoriented itself and was headed from 1900 by Wilhelm Gurlitt . Josef Strzygowski founded the Kunsthistorische Gesellschaft Graz as a link between the university and the public. The Landesmuseum Joanneum was restructured, and the drawing academy in Graz was also modernized with a master class for painting under the direction of Alfred Schrötter von Kristelli . In September 1900, the artist was on the initiative of Wilhelm Gurlitt Paul Schad-Rossa to Graz appointed to the modern strengthen efforts in Graz. He founded an art school and the Grazer Künstlerbund and published the art magazine Grazer Kunst . In 1900 the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein (cooperative of visual artists from 1918) was founded. Numerous exhibitions, lectures and events aimed to renew and revitalize art and culture in Styria. An authentic and contemporary conception of art was required that should break away from historicism. What was demanded - as the term “Zeitkunst” suggests - was an art that was rooted in its time.
“This is how the piece of modern art movement that I have experienced in this city presents itself to me. [...] It is possible and hopefully that the art of the times created many other eddies and circles in our waters [...]. Those who helped operate the bellows out of a genuine, albeit often suspicious love of art and homeland and, as they believe, in the service of higher developing powers, can now recede into the background, since the invoked powers to play and deeds and works to come to light start promoting. [...] In this moment, which is both future-oriented and retrospective, the desire arises inevitably to express gratitude to the one who, as the earliest and foremost, the quickest and toughest fighter, was the driving force in almost all battles, the man who held the professorship For classical archeology the warmest love for living art knows how to tune in one sound: Wilhelm Gurlitt . "
The contemporary art of Graz polarized with its modern conception. The posters in public space in particular annoyed the traditional Graz audience. The innovations in art and culture broke out a violent discourse.
The participating artists included Marie von Baselli , Victor Bauer , Hans Brandstetter , Norbertine Bresslern-Roth , Georg Brucks , Elfriede Coltelli , Bela Conrad , Constantin Damianos , Marie Egner , Marta Fossel , Leo Grimm , Wilhelm Gösser , Daniel Pauluzzi , Emmy Hiessleitner-Singer , Erich Hönig von Hönigsberg , Franz Hofer , Franz Gruber-Gleichenberg , Axl Leskoschek , Karl Mader , Daniel Pauluzzi, Pipo Peteln , Ludwig Presuhn , Paul Schad-Rossa , Paul Schmidtbauer , Alfred Schrötter-Kristelli , Fritz Silberbauer , Konrad Supanchich , Magarete Supprian , Georg Winkler , Ferdinand Wüst and Franz Zerlacher .
With the increasing trend towards homeland , modern art in Styria initially subsided again around 1908, but experienced a new heyday in the interwar period, including the establishment of the Graz Secession .
research
At the Institute for Art History at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, a research project has been devoted to the forgotten contemporary art of Graz around 1900.
Exhibitions
In autumn 2014 (November 7, 2014 to January 22, 2015) the Neue Galerie Graz at the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz will take up the topic in the exhibition “Departure into Modernism? Paul Schad-Rossa and the art in Graz ”. The exhibition gives an overview of Schad-Rossa's rediscovered oeuvre and contrasts it with works by Styrian artists in the media of painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and poster art from around 1900 to the 1920s. Many new, rediscovered works will be presented. The exhibition shows how long Symbolism and Art Nouveau lived on here apart from the metropolis of Vienna and asks the question to what extent the innovations of that time meant a departure into modernity.
literature
- Grazer Künstlerbund (Ed.): Grazer Kunst , Graz 1901.
- Ulrike Tropper: The creative milieu of Graz around 1900. A contribution to cultural life at the turn of the century. Dissertation. University of Graz, Graz 1994.
- Eva Klein: The poster in modern times. The beginning of graphic design in Styria in the context of international socio-cultural developments . Dissertation. University of Graz, Graz 2011. (Chapter 1.1.5: Paul Schad-Rossas Grazer Künstlerbund and magazine Grazer Kunst ).
- Eva Klein: Forgotten Styrian Modernism. Paul Schad-Rossa and the creative milieu around 1900 . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz . Volume 41. City of Graz (Ed.), Graz 2012, ISSN 0440-9728 , pp. 593–616.
- Eva Klein: posters. Departure into modernity using the example of the UNESCO City of Design Graz, Graz 2014. ISBN 978-3-7011-0326-3
- Gudrun Danzer, Peter Pakesch (eds.): Departure into modernity? Paul Schad-Rossa and the arts in Graz , exhibition catalog Neue Galerie am Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2014. Catalog
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Bahr: The discovery of the province , in: Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Vienna) of October 1, 1899.
- ↑ Art magazine "Grazer Kunst"
- ↑ Graz art at ANNO .
- ^ Eva Klein: Posters. Departure into the modern age using the example of the UNESCO City of Design Graz , Graz 2014.
- ↑ Press release of the Karl-Franzens-University from November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Grazer Zeitkunst . University of Graz. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ↑ Exhibition information of the Neue Galerie Graz ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Review of the exhibition Aufbruch in die Moderne from December 29, 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
