Group 1917

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The group in 1917 was a Dresden artists' association around Conrad Felixmüller and emerged at the end of 1917 from the Expressionist Working Group Dresden , which was founded in the same year .

history

Walter Otto Grimm : Dresdner Verlag from 1917

In 1917 Conrad Felixmüller founded the Dresden Expressionist Working Group together with the poet Walter Rheiner and the publisher Felix Stiemer . a. held with readings by Rheiner. At the end of the year, the 1917 group emerged from this working group . Thanks to Felixmüller's participation, the group also had a political impact and called for "Expressionism not only in art". One saw “art as a deed protest”.

The group exhibited in the Emil Richter Art Salon in 1917 . January 15, 1918 the group published first in Stiemer publisher then in Dresden publishing, the magazine "People" , which the Dresden 1919 "Morgenblatt early humans" was annexed and as "the intellectual workers Dresden organ of the Socialist group" called . In addition, numerous woodcuts by members of the group and a special issue for Felixmüller appeared in the Kiel magazine “Die Schöne Rarität” .

After Felixmüller was able to win Otto Dix for the group, the group was reorganized as the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 .

Members of the group in 1917 were Gerhard Ausleger (1891–1969, poet), Kurt Bock , Peter August Böckstiegel , Max Bruhn , Rudolf Adrian Dietrich (1894–1969, writer), Conrad Felixmüller , Richard Fischer , Oskar Maria Graf , Walter Otto Grimm , Raoul Hausmann , Bess Brenck-Kalischer , Otto Lange , A. Rudolf Leinert (1898–1969, poet), Constantin von Mitschke-Collande , EH Müller (music editor), Oskar Nerlinger , Recha Rothschild (1880–1964, journalist), Heinar Schilling , Lasar Segall , Felix Stiemer , Georg Tappert and Hugo Zehder (1892–1961 / 62, architect and art writer).

See also

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 45 .
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: Group 1917 . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 165-166 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Wilhelmi: Group 1917 . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 165-166 .