Artists' Association Dresden

New municipal exhibition building for the artists' association, 1937

The Dresden Artists' Association was founded on November 6, 1909 under the chairmanship of Georg Wrba from the members of the guild , the former Elbe , the guild and a number of outside artists in the Belvedere on the Brühlsche Terrasse “for the purpose of joint exhibitions and special care of artistic endeavors in Dresden ”. 46 founding members are entered in the “List of Founders of the KVD” in the Dresden City Archives .

history

Entrance area of the New Municipal Exhibition Building, 1937

The first exhibition took place in the autumn of 1910 in the rooms of the Saxon Art Association on the Brühlsche Terrasse ( art hall in the Lipsius building ). The Dresden Artists' Association organized regular sales exhibitions and in 1916 leased the New Municipal Exhibition Building on Lennéstrasse. The New Municipal Exhibition Building was an extension of the Municipal Exhibition Palace built by Hans Erlwein and Karl Hirschmann from 1914 to 1916 . The exhibition building comprised over ten rooms. The artists' association thus had largely unlimited exhibition opportunities. Several exhibitions were organized annually, supplemented by special exhibitions by well-known artists such as Hans Thoma (1925) and Edvard Munch (1918 and 1929). Membership in the artists' association was accordingly coveted. Young artists were only granted membership after having participated in exhibitions several times. In 1932 and 1933 the artists' association had over 70 members.

The artists' association renounced political commitments and was open to "anything that shows artistic will, whatever camp it comes from." In the 1910 exhibition she integrated works by the expressionist artist group Brücke .

Because of political pressure in the days of National Socialism , the Artists' Association was in May 1933 into line . In February 1934 she recognized the Führer principle and a few months later was accepted into the Bund Deutscher Künstlervereinigungen . 1939 went Artists Association Dresden in Dresden Künstlerbund on from 1940 dominated the exhibition event in Dresden.

Members

Founding members

Willy Doenges lists 58 founding members in a report on the founding of the artists' association in the magazine Cicerone :

Otto Altenkirch , H. Bähr (building officer), Carl Bantzer , Friedrich Beckert , E. Bender (building officer), Arthur Bendrat , Siegfried Berndt , Eugen Bracht , Wilhelm Claudius , Robert Diez , Ferdinand Dorsch , Martin Dülfer , Georg Erler , Otto Fischer , Walter Friederici , Julius Graebner , Karl Groß , Otto Gussmann , Emanuel Hegenbarth , Oswin Hempel , K. Hirschmann (graduate engineer), Alexander Höfer , Alexander Hohrath , Erich Kleinhempel , Rudolf Kolbe , Edmund Körner , William Krause , Gotthardt Kuehl , Ernst Kühn , Max Hans Kühne , Arthur Lange , William Lossow , Oskar Menzel , Otto Wilhelm Merseburg , Gustav Meyer-Buchwald , Hans Nadler , Anton Pepino , P. Perks, Felix Pfeifer , Otto Pilz , Peter Pöppelmann , Rudolf Pöschmann , Wilhelm Georg Ritter , Paul Rößler , Otto Rossow , Rudolf Schilling , August Schreitmüller , Oskar Seyffert , Walter Sintenis , Robert Sterl , Heinrich Tscharmann , Johannes Paul Ufer , Paul Wallot , Georg Wrba , Selmar Werner , August Wilkens , W. Zeising, Oskar Zwintsc here .

Other well-known members

Johannes Beutner , Pol Cassel , Richard Dreher , Herbert Ebersbach , Hans Erlwein , Erich Fraaß , Ludwig von Hofmann , Willy Jahn , Hans Jüchser , Bernhard Kretzschmar , Rudolf Löhner , Hermann Alfred Raddatz , Karl-Erich Schaefer , Ewald Schönberg , Fritz Skade .

literature

Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 .
A. Werner Vogel, Eberhard Vogel: Artists' Association Dresden . In: Otto Pilz: academic animal sculptor; (1876-1934); his life and work . VDS, Verlag Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-728-3 , p. 32-33 .

Individual evidence

↑ The association Die Gilde, founded on April 4, 1907, was a primarily economic association of arts and crafts. See: Petra Klara Gamke: Karl Groß. Tradition as innovation? Dresden reform art at the beginning of modernism . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-06488-5 , p. 44 .
↑ ^a ^b Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 44 .
^ A. Werner Vogel: Artists' Association Dresden . In: Otto Pilz: academic animal sculptor; (1876-1934); his life and work . VDS, Verlag Dr. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-728-3 , p. 32–33 (Dresden City Archives files no. 13.18 no. 1 and no. 7).
^ Willy Doenges: Dresden exhibitions . In: Cicerone . 2nd year, no. 19 , 1910, pp. 653-655 ( digitized version ).

↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 74 .

^ Willy Doenges: Exhibitions - Dresden . In: Cicerone . 2nd year, no. 17 , 1910, pp. 592 ( digitized version ).

[1] The association Die Gilde, founded on April 4, 1907, was a primarily economic association of arts and crafts. See: Petra Klara Gamke: Karl Groß. Tradition as innovation? Dresden reform art at the beginning of modernism . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-06488-5 , p. 44 .

[mueller-2] Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 44 .

[3] A. Werner Vogel: Artists' Association Dresden . In: Otto Pilz: academic animal sculptor; (1876-1934); his life and work . VDS, Verlag Dr. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-728-3 , p. 32–33 (Dresden City Archives files no. 13.18 no. 1 and no. 7).

[4] Willy Doenges: Dresden exhibitions . In: Cicerone . 2nd year, no. 19 , 1910, pp. 653-655 ( digitized version ).

[5] Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 74 .

[6] Willy Doenges: Exhibitions - Dresden . In: Cicerone . 2nd year, no. 17 , 1910, pp. 592 ( digitized version ).