Young Idysz

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Jung Idysz (also: young Jidysz , German: Young Jewish or young Yiddish ) was in February 1919 in Łódź , founded artists group which avant zurechnende writers and artists of Jewish origin and Yiddish Language Association. The group was the first association of Jewish artists in Poland and existed until 1921.

history

The initiator of the founding was Moses Broderson , who also created the name of the group, based on comparable names of other artist groups: Young Germany , La Jeune Belgique , Di Yunge or Młoda Polska . Other founding members were Jankel Adler , Marek Szwarc and Wincenty Brauner . A large part of the group members (painters, graphic artists, sculptors, poets and musicians) belonged to the Stowarzyszenie Artystów i Zwolenników Sztuk Pięknych (German: Association of Artists and Art Patrons ), which was founded in 1916 . Jung Idysz was shaped by German Expressionism and Marc Chagall's ideas . In 1919 the group published three issues of the magazine "Jung Idysz" (edition of 500 copies). The group kept in contact with the artist group Bunt in Poznan . In 1927 members of the group founded the Łódź cabaret "Ararat".

The art style that the members of Jung Idysz pursued in their works is known as the "Jewish variant of late expressionism". The artists faced the artistic claim of moral and religious renewal. They saw in Jesus a Jew. After 1921, the group increasingly turned away from Expressionism and towards what they called Post- Expressionism Realism - with the design elements of deformation and the use of darker colors.

Members (selection)

literature

  • Joanna Lisek: Yung Yidish. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 485-487.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to Julian Baranowski and Andrzej Machejek, Żydzi Łodzcy , ISBN 8391932923 , Wydawnictwo Hamal Andrej Machejek, 2004, p. 45 (in English)
  2. ↑ Moses Brodersen (also Moishe Broderzon , 1890-1956) was a Jewish poet and theater director
  3. ↑ a b according to Antony Polonsky , Ezra Mendelsohn and Jerzy Tomaszewski, Polin. Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 , Volume 8 of the Polin series , ISBN 1904113222 , Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004, p. 414 (in English)
  4. ↑ a b according to Lech Kalinowski, The art of the 1920's in Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Hungary , Issue 6 of the Niedzica Seminars, 19. – 22. October 1989, Association of Polish Art Historians (publisher and publisher), 1991, p. 71 f. (in English)

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