Jury-free art exhibition

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The Jury-Free Art Exhibition or Jury-Free Art Show Berlin ( JKB ), actually “Jury-Free Art Show Berlin. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Juryfrei eV "was an art- economic association founded by the painter Hermann Sandkuhl in 1911 from the Berliner Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK), literally jury-free and therefore not tied to specific directions :" an organization that promises equality for its members, the first Sometimes one creates one, that is the absolute possibility, guaranteed to every artist, to show his work, to bring it to the market, to create the most elemental possibility for her to be seen and recognized and thus the possibility to sell. “(H. Sandkuhl, May 22, 1911).

history

Wooden sculpture "Mother" by Hermann Scherer in the jury-free art show in the state exhibition building in Berlin, October 1924

The board of the jury-free art exhibition in 1911 included Hermann Sandkuhl as first chairman, Georg Tappert as second chairman, M. von Bülow as secretary , G. Moré as treasurer , as well as Käthe Kollwitz , Martin Brandenburg , the sculptors Bergfeld, Hans Schadow , Max Fabian and the Graphic artist Fritz Wolff .

The jury-free art exhibition organized a correspondingly uncensored picture market since October 1911, which quickly became a forum for modernism. The exhibition location was the state exhibition building at Lehrter Bahnhof, since 1930 the "House of the Jury Free": "To have an open door for painters and sculptors of all artist groups, that is the art policy of the JKB" (Preface to the Jury Free Art Show 1924) the international exhibition "Women in Need" shown (October 9 to November 1, 1931).

At the time of its heyday, the jury-free had only 24 members (including Charles Crodel , Wassily Kandinsky , Gerhard Marcks , Oskar Schlemmer , Heinrich Schwarz ) but 600 exhibiting artists (1926).

On February 7, 1925 there was the festival of the jury free. In 1930 a school for the jury-free in the "House of the Jury Free" was announced. Solo and thematic exhibitions were also shown there (e.g. 1932: “Das Meisterphoto”). There were also connections to the “Société des Artistes Indépendants” in Paris.

A special feature was the graphics offered by the jury-free (including prints by Ernst Barlach ) in the printing workshops of the Kunstgewerbeschule der Stadt Halle Burg Giebichenstein , managed by Crodel, and their own art collection, which was probably organized in the manner of a graphic library . The holdings were destroyed in the course of the National Socialist art purges, which began in the summer of 1933 with the destruction of Charles Crodel's paintings in Bad Lauchstädt and the burning of the works in his printing workshop in Giebichenstein Castle .

In 1933 and 1934, the working group managed the "Free Art Show" thanks to the courtesy of the Wertheim House in Berlin, Bellevuestr. 7. After that, the association was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1934 and the house of the jury-free together with the assets of the working group was liquidated.

literature

  • Jury-free art show . In: Wolfgang Hütt (Hrsg.): Background: with the indecency and blasphemy paragraphs of the penal code against art and artists. 1900-1933 . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00384-2 , p. 375 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Georg Tappert : The Berlin Jury-Free Art Show . In: Kunst und Künstler: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts . 12th year, no. 2 . Cassirer, Berlin 1914, p. 120-123 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exhibitions . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . 32, July 7th. Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 504 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The main document is the first art booklet of the jury-free. Painter of the jury free , Berlin 1927.

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