Cologne Progressive

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The Cologne Progressive (also "group of progressive artists") was an artist group around the painters Franz Wilhelm Seiwert , Heinrich Hoerle and the photographer August Sander , which was founded in the early 1920s. The common concept was to document the people and social structures of their time in pictures.

The painter Gottfried Brockmann , the graphic artist Gerd Arntz , the sculptors Otto Freundlich and Hans Schmitz , the writers Ludwig Mathar , Dettmar Heinrich Sarnetzki and Otto Brües , as well as the editor of the “brick maker ” Ret Marut (later B. Traven ) , as well as the architects Hans Heinz Lüttgen and Wilhelm Riphahn . They stayed from 1919 to 1921 in the Junker House in Simonskall as part of the Kalltalgemeinschaft experiment . Later the picture and glass painter Ludwig Egidius Ronig joined them, who in 1932 founded the avant-garde group 32 , which was dissolved a year later with Seiwert, Hoerle, Räderscheidt , Franz Joseph Esser and Davringhausen .

literature

  • Uli Bohnen: The law of the world is changing the world. The Rhenish group of progressive artists (1918-1933) . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-87956-077-3 (Diss. Tübingen, 1974).
  • Walter Vitt: Heinrich Hoerle and Franz Wilhelm Seiwert - Die Progressiven, Cologne 1975, in the series "Cologne Biographies".
  • Lynette Roth (Ed.): Cologne progressive 1920-33. seiwert, Hoerle, arntz . König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-383-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, March 15 - June 15, 2008).
  • Franz Martin Esser: The group "Kölner Progressive" and their artistic environment (1920-1933) , VDG Weimar - publishing house and database for the humanities, 2008, ISBN 978-3-95899-333-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Ludwig E. Ronig, Painting Drawing" exhibition catalog, guide of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn by Sylvia Böhmer and Gabriele Lueg on behalf of the Rhineland Regional Association 1984, Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, Cologne Lithographs: Peukert & Co, Cologne Printing: B. Kühlen KG, Mönchengladbach ISBN 3-7927-0833-7