Jena Art Association
Jenaer Kunstverein , actually Kunstverein Jena e. V. is an art association founded in Jena in 1903 .
history
The art association was founded on December 20, 1903 by the archaeologist Botho Graef , known as a patron of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . In 1914, the art collection was expanded under Eberhard Grisebach and, under Herbert Koch, it was the location of the Weimar Bauhaus, among others . The Prinzessinnenschlösschen has been available for permanent and temporary exhibitions since 1923.
The board acted Walter adzes and Charles Crodel (of 1919/1920 the Urverzeichis the Jena Kirchner Foundation in memory of Botho Graef wrote).
Until 2012 the seat of the art association was in the building of the optical museum . Exhibition rooms were in the Red Tower . Nowadays the Jenaer Stadtspeicher is the home and exhibition space of the art association .
Act
The association did not limit its activities to the intellectual upper class, but also tried, in connection with the adult education center, to educate all classes of the people through lectures. The orientation of the modern exhibition profile with special consideration of the latest trends in art did not always meet with an understanding audience. Therefore, exhibitions of the conservative and modern currents alternated.
In addition to Max Klinger , Christian Rohlfs , Hans Thoma and Käthe Kollwitz as representatives of the older generation, the Expressionist artists used the exhibitions of the Jena Art Association as a coveted podium. Heinrich Vogeler , Emil Nolde , Erich Heckel , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Wassily Kandinsky , Alexej von Jawlensky and Paul Klee presented their works, among others . Christoph Natter has led the association since 1930 . The National Socialists put a temporary end in 1937 as part of the Degenerate Art campaign . The Jenaer Kunstverein was not re-established until February 1990 and continues its work with exhibitions of contemporary art.
literature
- Volker Wahl: Jena as a city of art: encounters with modern art in the Thuringian university town between 1900 and 1933. Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-363-00363-3 .
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: From Jena to Davos. An exhibition on the 90th anniversary of the Jena Art Association. Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-363-00596-2 .
- Intoxication and disenchantment. The picture collection of the Jenaer Kunstverein - fate of a collection of the avant-garde in the 20th century. Jena / Quedlinburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-932906-86-2 .