Group 53

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The group 53 was a Düsseldorf artist group , which was founded on February 27, 1953 by five artists as the artist group Niederrhein 53 eV . Group 53 was formed from her in 1955, with extensive personnel renewals. Its members were primarily artists of Tachism (later also called Informel ), including Peter Brüning , Karl Fred Dahmen (from 1959), Fathwinter (from 1955), Albert Fürst , Winfred Gaul (from 1955), Herbert Götzinger , Horst Egon Kalinowski , Rolf Sackenheim , Peter Royen , Gerhard Wind and Gerhard Hoehme . Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher exhibited as guests. The only artist in the group who did not paint abstractly was Konrad Klapheck with his surrealistic typewriter and sewing machine pictures. In 1959 Otto Piene and Heinz Mack left the artists' association and founded the Zero group .

Their first joint exhibition took place in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from April 4 to May 2, 1954.

Together with the groups Quadriga in Frankfurt and ZEN 49 in Munich, she is one of the germ cells of Informel in Germany.

literature

  • Marie-Luise Otten (Ed.): On the way to the avant-garde. Artists of Group 53. Catalog. Museum der Stadt Ratingen 2003, ISBN 3-89904-079-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Horn: Cultural Policy in Düsseldorf. Situation and new beginning after 1945 . Leske Verlag, Opladen 1981, ISBN 978-3-8100-0396-6 , p. 100 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Ralf Günter Dienst: Togetherness makes you strong. Groups of artists between 1945 and 1960. In: Art of the West, German Art 1945 to 1960. Catalog. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Cologne 1996, p. 136.