Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf

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The Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf , formerly the Große Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf or Große Kunstausstellung NRW , now also known as Die Große (original spelling Die Grosse ), is an international art exhibition and art fair that attracts professional actors from a wide range of visual arts every year Museum Kunstpalast to Düsseldorf . It is considered the largest art exhibition in Germany organized by artists for artists. The organizer is the association for the organization of art exhibitions, established in Düsseldorf in 1898 .

history

Old Palace of Art , around 1903
Kunstpalast, exhibition space "Düsseldorf", 1902
Concept of the Great Exhibition 1915 , watercolor by Heinrich Hermanns , May 1914

Based on the model of the Petit Palais built from 1897 onwards at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , protagonists of the Düsseldorf art community in the Association of Düsseldorf Artists and around Fritz Roeber , then secretary of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and its director from 1908, longed for a building for representative art exhibitions in Düsseldorf. To this end, in 1898 they founded the association for the organization of art exhibitions . The association, which was formally founded on May 31, 1900, resided in the Malkasten House . The association achieved its structural goal when, in 1902, the exhibition palace of the Düsseldorf industrial and trade exhibition was opened according to plans by Albrecht Bender and Eugen Rückgauer , which was soon named Kunstpalast . Initially, the Kunstpalast promised to the artists was still burdened with debts, but the Great Art and Horticultural Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904 generated so much profit that the shareholders were paid out their contributions and the artists of the city of Düsseldorf granted the association permanent exhibition rights. The exhibitions then held from 1906 - mostly every two years - were called the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf . In 1913, a cultural journalist noted that the cultural metropolis of Düsseldorf had experienced an “unmistakable boom” from the major art exhibitions that had taken place in the Kunstpalast since 1902, that the “fairy tale of the backwardness of Düsseldorf art that is habitually served up outside” was not true and that it is boiling and fermenting in Düsseldorf like in a "cauldron of artistic views". Even "loners" like the Sonderbund and their leaders, August Deusser and Max Clarenbach , "returned peacefully to the Kunstpalast" and behaved "like good Düsseldorf children". For the year 1915 a "big exhibition" was planned in connection with an industrial and commercial exhibition, the execution of which, according to plans by Wilhelm Kreis, prevented the outbreak of the First World War .

By participating in the opening of the exhibition in 1920, the Prussian Minister of Education, Konrad Haenisch , expressed the importance of the exhibition for the cultural policy of the Free State of Prussia . Within the association and its board there were several disputes between the various wings in the 1920s because of the exhibitions, especially between board members Bernhard Sopher and Adolf Uzarski on the one hand, who represented the interests of the avant-garde, politically left-wing artist group Das Junge Rheinland , and on the other, Fritz Roeber, the director of the Academy, which was then considered to be conservative.

For the ambitious GeSoLei exhibition , which opened in 1926, the association's exhibition building was to be given a new urban framework and included in a spacious exhibition center . The planners working with Wilhelm Kreis integrated the Kunstpalast into the Ehrenhof exhibition complex by covering the old exhibition building with a new facade in the form of brick expressionism in 1924/1925, in accordance with the desired architectural uniformity of the overall complex . In this new setting, a large art exhibition was organized in 1927 under the patronage of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . In 1928 the representative exhibition of German art took place, organized by the Düsseldorf Art Association and the City of Düsseldorf. In 1932, the association for the organization of art exhibitions, then headed by Erich von Perfall , organized the Düsseldorf-Munich art exhibition , which juxtaposed the artistic creation of two art metropolises of the Weimar Republic.

In the era of National Socialism of the culture industry was " brought into line " and in the spirit of National Socialist ideology steered state , so that the club no independent exhibitions more could organize. Instead of an independent exhibition, there was, for example, the Degenerate Art exhibition , which came to the Kunstpalast in 1938 as a traveling exhibition by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

After the Second World War , which led to an interruption in the series of exhibitions, the association began again to organize art exhibitions from 1951, initially under the name Christmas exhibition and winter exhibition of the visual artists of Rhineland and Westphalia , from 1978 again annually and under the traditional one Designation Great Art Exhibition . Later the North Rhine-Westphalia abbreviation NRW was added to the name. At the end of the 1990s, the exhibition palace preserved behind the facade of the Ehrenhof was replaced by a new exhibition building based on plans by Oswald Mathias Ungers . During this time, the exhibitions had to move to the exhibition center in Düsseldorf .

Application, admission, exhibition location, art trade, art prizes, accompanying program

The big one , street poster 2018

Professional artists from Germany and abroad can apply to the association to participate in the exhibition. A “preliminary jury” decides on admission to the exhibition. According to its own account, the association tries to promote renowned and young artists outside of market-oriented trends and to offer them a platform as part of a guest exhibition. The exhibition shows art from the following areas:

  • painting
  • Graphics, photo, video, media art
  • Plastic, object, installation

The exhibition takes place annually in the Museum Kunstpalast. It is considered a good opportunity to acquire pictures and objects outside of the gallery owners ' middlemen. Regular buyers include the city of Düsseldorf and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

As part of the event, the artist's art award and a sponsorship award have been awarded since 1975 .

Under the title Donnerhall , the exhibition is supplemented by performances on Thursday evenings, as well as matinee events on Sundays and daily guided tours by the artists. After Die Grosse took place for the 116th time in winter 2018, the exhibition took place in 2019, including the outside areas of the courtyard, and was extended from three to six weeks. Die Grosse will not take place in summer 2020 .

Art Prize of the Artist

The Art Prize of the Artists is an art prize that is awarded annually to an artist of the visual arts at the Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf . The Laureates person from a jury selected and nominated. The jury is appointed by the Association for the Organization of Art Exhibitions e. V. composed of art experts.

Art Prize Winner

Sponsorship Award - The Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf

The Förderpreis - The Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf is an art prize that is awarded annually as part of the Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf. The prize is awarded to young visual artists up to 35 years of age who stand out through special artistic achievements and who, e.g. B. Creation focus or training are connected to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The artist to be honored will be selected by a jury from the applicants for the annual exhibition DIE Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf.

The following artists have been honored with the sponsorship award, which has been awarded since 1985:

Award winners

Web links

Commons : Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, 1902  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : International art exhibition and large horticultural exhibition in Düsseldorf, 1904  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Annette Ciré: Temporary exhibition buildings for art, trade and industry in Germany, 1896–1915 . European University Writings, Art History, Volume 158, Peter Lang, 1993, ISBN 978-3-6314-5625-5 , p. 283
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  10. ^ Association of Düsseldorf Artists: 18th winter exhibition of the visual artists of Rhineland and Westphalia . Self-published, 1968, 53 pp.
  11. ^ Association history , website in the portal diegrosse.de , accessed on June 3, 2014.
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