Artists' association in Bremen
The artists association in Bremen was a 1856 established association with the aim of the interest in artistic and scientific to promote issues in the Hanseatic city. It existed until 1936.
History of the artists' association
The artists' association was founded on April 13, 1856 in the Hillmann Hotel , the first president was the theater director Karl August Ritter . In contrast to the very elitist Kunstverein (founded in 1823), the Artists Association was open to all artists and those interested in art, as already stated in the preamble of the association's statutes :
- “The association offers itself to practicing artists and friends of art as a focus of their endeavors and interests. [...] [He should] free himself from the shackles of the rigid form and accept no difference in rank and position. He wants art and only it for its own sake. "
The artists' association was very popular, so that almost all personalities of the artistic and scientific life of the city soon became members. According to the different fields of activity of its members, the association was divided into five departments:
- I. Department: Music and Dramatic Art
- II. Department: Painting and Sculpture
- III. Department: Architecture
- IV Department: Literature
- V. Department: Friends of Art
The association initially used the rooms of the Union from 1801 Am Wall until the former cathedral chapter house on Domsheide was converted into a club house by Heinrich Müller in 1857 . The artists' association organized lectures, concerts, theatrical performances, exhibitions as well as festivals, such as the historical costume balls , which were dedicated to personalities or events from the history of Bremen. Central people in the association were the painter Arthur Fitger and the playwright Heinrich Bulthaupt , who played a key role in determining its directions and activities.
In 1862, through the incorporation of the recently founded association for Bremen history and antiquities (later the Historical Society of the Art Association ), an additional sixth department was created, which was responsible for the publication of various writings on the history of Bremen and North Germany, such as monuments to the history and art of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (3 volumes, 1862 to 1879), the Bremen yearbooks (annually since 1863) and the Bremen biography of the nineteenth century (1912).
In 1869 the house of the artists' association was extended and rebuilt again by Heinrich Müller. In 1877 the natural science collection of the Society Museum was temporarily housed here. A spacious reading room was set up around 1890. On January 26, 1915, the building burned down completely in a large fire and remained in ruins for several years until the concert hall Die Glocke was built on this site in 1926 .
In 1936 the artists' association dissolved; its departments were (partially) transferred to new clubs or became self-employed. The last chairman was the Bremen historian Heinrich Tiedemann .
literature
- Wiltrud Ulrike Drechsel, Heide Gerstenberger , Christian Marzahn: Fine arts and their audience in the 18th and 19th centuries . University of Bremen, Contributions to the social history of Bremen, Issue 10. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-88722-149-4 .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Historical society of the artists' association (ed.): Bremen biography of the nineteenth century. Bremen: Verlag von Gustav Winter, 1912.
- Ernst Neuling: The Artists' Association in Bremen from 1856 to 1906 . Bremen no year
- Andreas Schulz: Guardianship and protection. Elites and citizens in Bremen 1750–1880 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56582-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Schulz: Guardianship and protection. Elites and citizens in Bremen 1750–1880 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56582-9 , pp. 645 .