Artists Association of Silesia
The Künstlerbund Schlesien was an association of Silesian artists founded in Wroclaw that existed from 1908 to 1936. His office was initially in the Franz Hancke art salon, later in the Arnold gallery .
The aims of the artists' union, which was properly organized with statutes, a board of directors and an office, were the maintenance and promotion of art in Silesia, the liberation of Silesian artists from isolation and their promotion as well as the creation of exhibition opportunities. Apart from the organization of numerous exhibitions, the federal government annually issued a folder with original graphics for the members until 1920 (according to Hölscher; annual edition 1913 black-and-white images based on paintings). In 1925 in books I and II and in 1929 in book III the following "artists of Silesia" were presented: Isidor Aschheim , Robert Bednorz , Johann Drobek, Margarete Moll, Alfred Vocke , Hans Leistikow , Max Berg , Paul Dobers , Theodor Effenberger , Theodor von Gosen , Paula Grünfeld, Leopold von Kalckreuth , Konrad von Kardorff, Ludwig Peter Kowalski , Ludwig Meidner , Oskar Moll , Thomas Myrtek , Georg Nerlich , Alfred Nickisch , Gustav Oelsner , Paul Plontke , Hans Poelzig , Friedrich Rückert, Hugo Scheinert , Heinrich Tischler , Hans Zimbal . Another volume was planned for the artists and architects Kurt Arendt, Fritz Behrendt , Arnold Busch , Willy Jäckel, Karl Hanusch , Gertrud Kleinert, Ludwig Moshamer , W. Röhricht, G. Schröder, Paul Schulz and A. Vonka.
The founding members initially selected the sculptor Theodor von Gosen (1873-1943, 1st chairman from 1908 to 1932), the painter Eugen Burkert , the architect, painter and teacher Hans Poelzig , the painter Hans Rossmann and the painter, from their ranks as board members Textile artist and teacher Max Wislicenus .
Hans Poelzig, teacher of stylistics and since 1903 director of the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau , which was to be promoted to an academy in 1911, and Wislicenus, who taught at this school since 1896, had been the class for since 1900 , made a particular contribution to the establishment of this association Looked after textile art and set up a tapestry workshop there in 1904 with Poelzig's support.
The founding members were also the architect Max Berg (1870–1947), the painters Leopold von Kalckreuth (1855–1928), Erich Erler (1870–1946), Alfred Nickisch (1872–1948), Paul Dobers (1885–1959, later university professor the Breslau Art Academy), Heinrich Tüpke (1876–1951) and Fritz Erler (1868–1940), as well as Hans Albert Graf von Harrach Scandicci and Paul Schulz.
The fact that art and politics are often inextricably linked is shown by the text on a postcard from the Künstlerbund member Ludwig Meidner to the lawyer and art patron Dr. Littmann in Breslau , written on March 22nd, 1923 in Berlin : “Some of them → mean the members of the“ Künstlerbundes Schlesien ”← , e.g. B. Mr. Friese , take the position that Expressionism is a Jewish macho and that Expressionists are all Jews and the like. s. w. .... "
Exhibitions
The artist association held the following exhibitions:
- 1909: Breslau, Lichtenberg Gallery
- 1910: Katowice , City Theater
- 1911: Posen , East German exhibition for industry, trade and agriculture, together with other groups of artists
- 1913: Breslau, special exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the wars of freedom, catalog
- 1917: Breslau, members' exhibition in the Arnold Gallery
- 1920: Breslau, large art exhibition Breslau-Scheitnig, together with the Silesian Museum and Academy (also external artists such as Klee, Schmidt-Rottluff, Purrmann), catalog
- 1922: Breslau, first autumn exhibition, grain market hall on Christopheri-Platz, together with "Gruppe 1922", 1st almanac
- 1923: Breslau, spring exhibition
- 1924: Breslau, 2nd almanac, spring exhibition May 11th to June 11th, Grain Hall Breslau. (Note: This almanac contains - in contrast to Hölscher - original graphics by Georg Nerlich, Heinrich Tischler, Thomas Myrtek, Paul Dobers, Robert Bednorz, Hans Leistikow, Isidor Aschheim and Kurt Gerhard Arendt.)
- 1924: Breslau, 3rd almanac, autumn exhibition, Kobold almanac
- 1925: Breslau, Galerie Stenzel, exhibition of artists' aid
- 1926: Breslau, summer exhibition in Breslau-Scheitnig
- 1927: Breslau, summer exhibition, autumn exhibition
- 1928: Breslau, spring exhibition, autumn exhibition, large art exhibition
- 1929: Breslau, exhibition "Young Silesia in the Old General Command"
- 1931: Breslau, spring exhibition
- 1932: Breslau, February exhibition, first autumn exhibition, exhibition "Artists in and from Silesia"
- 1934: Breslau, exhibition
literature
- B. Ilkosz: Hans Poelzig and the Silesian Artists' Association. In: Hans Poelzig in Breslau, architecture and art 1900–1916, Wroclaw 2000. Aschenbeck and Holstein, Delmenhorst 2000, ISBN 3-932292-30-8 .
- Petra Hölscher: The Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau. Ludwig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-933598-50-8 .
- Silesian Museum zu Görlitz, workshops of modernism, teachers and students of the Breslau Academy 1903–1932. Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2004, ISBN 3-89923-061-2