Hessian secession

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The Hessian Secession , also Die Hessen , was a group of artists from Kassel .

history

In August 1946, the Hessian Secession was founded in Kassel as a successor to the Kassel Secession . The artist group is one of the earliest post-war activities in the cultural field in Germany, which - still under American occupation status - helped the barren cultural life of Kassel to some high points with a dense series of ambitious exhibitions on the present in the gallery rooms of the Hessian State Museum . Its members to Arnold Bode included u. a. Bernhard Delsing , Carl Döbel , Berta Martin , Ernst Röttger and Siegmund Schliephacke . Arnold Bode was elected its first chairman in 1946.

The group of artists saw itself as an avant-garde that referred to its impressionist origins. The Hessian Secession succeeded in showing the first national exhibition after 1945 in Kassel with works by Fritz Winter , Werner Gilles , Ewald Mataré and Walter Schliephacke . Due to internal disagreements about a planned exhibition project that would have had the character of a documenta incunable , the group of artists disbanded in 1948. In 1948 the Kassel section of the professional association of visual artists , which the members of the dissolved Hessian Secession mostly joined, was founded.

What was set as an objective under Bode's chairmanship in their far-reaching cultural education program can be seen as an incubator for the later documenta complex of ideas.

In 1953, Club 53 gathered around Arnold Bode.

literature

  • Manfred Marx, Heiner Georgsdorf: 150 Years of the Kasseler Kunstverein - A Chronicle . Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1985, OCLC 1005889187 . P. 111

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Kimpel : documenta. Myth and Reality. Dumont Verlag, Cologne 1997, p. 106 ISBN 3-7701-4182-2
  2. ↑ Manfred Marx, Heiner Georgsdorf : 150 Years of the Kasseler Kunstverein - A Chronicle . Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1985, OCLC 1005889187 . P. 111
  3. ↑ Harald Kimpel: documenta. Myth and Reality. Dumont Verlag, Cologne 1997, p. 106 ISBN 3-7701-4182-2
  4. ↑ Werner Haftmann : Painting in the Twentieth Century. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1954 9th edition 2000, p. 522 ISBN 3791304917