Congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists
The first congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists was organized by the artists' association Das Junge Rheinland and took place from May 29th to 31st, 1922 in Düsseldorf . Participants included the Berlin November Group , the Darmstadt Secession , the Dresden Secession Group 1919 , the Hallesche Künstlergruppe , the German Werkbund , Herwarth Walden from the magazine Der Sturm as well as representatives of the Italian Futurists and the Russian Constructivists . The aim of the congress was to form a union to assert common interests. However, there were violent disagreements and the concerns of Congress were not reached.
history
Cartel of the progressive artists' associations in Germany
As early as January 1922, the board of directors of the artists 'association Das Junge Rheinland had contacted the boards of progressive artist groups and proposed the merger of the secessions in a cartel of progressive artists' associations in Germany . This should enable the concerns of modern art to be better enforced at national level in exhibitions, publications and in state committees. On March 11 and 12, 1922, a meeting of representatives of the Young Rhineland , the Dresden Secession Group 1919 and the November Group took place in Weimar . For the Young Rhineland took Arthur Kaufmann , Adolf Uzarski and Gert Wollheim part. Otto Lange , Constantin von Mitschke-Collande , Otto Krischer and Will Grohmann from the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 were present.
The founding manifesto of the Cartel of Progressive Artists in Germany , signed at this preliminary congress, also called for cooperation between international artists, the publication of an international magazine and the organization of a permanent international exhibition within the framework of a “Union of international progressive artists”. At the end of March, the invitations to the “First International Art Exhibition” planned by the Young Rhineland were sent out. This exhibition, in which around 340 painters from 19 different countries took part, took place from May 28 to July 3, 1922 on the fourth floor of the Tietz department store in Düsseldorf. At the same time as the invitation was issued to participate in the Congress of Progressive Artists and to join the "Union of International Progressive Artists".
Other artists 'associations such as Die Schaffenden joined the cartel of progressive artists' associations . The magazine “Das Junge Rheinland” was used as the publication organ under the extended title “Das Junge Rheinland - Novembergruppe - Dresdner Sezession”. The contributions of the individual groups appeared on their own. The first joint edition appeared on May 1, 1922 (issue number 7) and the second joint edition in July 1922 (double numbers 9 and 10).
Congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists
The Congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists took place from May 29th to 31st in Düsseldorf. District President Walther Grützner had made the plenary hall of the Düsseldorf government building available for this purpose . Representatives of the Berlin November Group, the Darmstadt Secession Group, the Dresden Secession Group 1919, the Hallescher Künstlergruppe, the Deutscher Werkbund, Herwarth Walden as representative of the magazine Der Sturm , representatives of the Italian Futurists and the Russian Constructivists, with László Péri a representative Hungarians, French, Irish, Austrians, Poles, Romanians, Dutch and even Japanese participated.
Will Grohmann for the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 , Theo van Doesburg for De Stijl , El Lissitzky for the Russians, Gert Heinrich Wollheim for Das Junge Rheinland , Tristan Rémy for France, Jankel Adler for Poland and Xenia Boguslawskaja for Russia acted as spokesmen for the individual groups on.
On the second day of the congress, the second, subsequent manifesto of the “Union of International Progressive Artists” was read out, which presented the Union as a practically and economically oriented community of interests that wanted to abstain from judging artistic questions. There were violent differences of opinion. As a result, van Doesburg from De Stijl , El Lissitzky from the Constructivists, Raoul Hausmann and Hans Richter from the Dadaists as well as Stanislaw Kubicki , Otto Freundlich and Franz Wilhelm Seiwert left the room.
On the third day, organizational and financial issues were discussed. The wish expressed by the remaining participants for an organizational and commercially oriented community could not be realized either.
The congress triggered the International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists held in Weimar in September 1922 .
literature
- Maria Müller: The congress of the "Union International Progressive Artists" in Düsseldorf . In: Constructivist International Creative Working Group, 1922–1927, Utopias for a European Culture: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, (May 30 to August 23, 1992); Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, (September 3 to November 15, 1992) . Hatje, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7757-0376-4 , pp. 17-22 .
- Peter Barth: Excursus: Dresden - Düsseldorf 1920–23 . In: The Dresden Art Scene 1913–1933 . Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf 1987, p. 51-82 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerda Wendermann: The International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar in September 1922 attempt at a chronology of events. (PDF) Written version of a lecture on July 29, 2007 as part of the international symposium "Kurt Schwitters and the Avant-garde" at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover . 2007, accessed on May 7, 2015 (pp. 7–9).
- ↑ Jasmin Koßmann: Will Grohmann, Lasar Segall and the "Dresdner Sezession Gruppe 1919" . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Konstanze Rudert (Ed.): Between intuition and certainty: Will Grohmann and the reception of modernity in Germany and Europe 1918 - 1968 . Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-053-6 , p. 127-133 .
- ↑ Ulrich Krempel (Ed.): In the beginning: The young Rhineland . Claassen-Verlag, Berlin 1985, p. 50