Wartime (magazine)
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| description | cultural-political artist magazine |
| publishing company | Kunstverlag Cassirer, Berlin (Germany) |
| First edition | No. 1, August 31, 1914 |
| attitude | No. 64/65, end of March 1916 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly, then every fortnight, at last sporadically |
| Sold edition | Max. 3,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Alfred Gold |
| editor | Paul Cassirer |
| Web link | Heidelberg University Library |
Wartime - Artist Leaflets was a German artist magazine founded in 1914 in Berlin by the art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer with the collaboration of Alfred Gold . She published original lithographs by German artists, the majority of whom were members of the Berlin Secession and who were close to German Impressionism .
history
The predominantly nationalist war-affirming lithographs by Max Liebermann , for example, appear alongside works by Ernst Barlach , Max Beckmann , August Gaul , Willy Jaeckel , Käthe Kollwitz or Wilhelm Trübner, with some even chauvinistic undertones, which were specially made for this magazine. Artists who are generally known for their oppositional stance to the political establishment of the German Empire initially submitted to the political "truce" after the outbreak of war and volunteered to serve a national enthusiasm for the war. This basic trend was soon followed by disillusionment, which was reflected in changed topics. Instead of hurray-patriotically storming soldiers in battle scenes, escapist works of art with critical undertones and sometimes even stealthy pacifist approaches appeared.
As early as mid-1915, the publisher began to stretch the initially weekly publication frequency of the periodical to a two-week cycle, before it was only published irregularly before it was discontinued in 1916. He was followed by “ Der Bildermann ” , Paul Cassirer's new magazine project, which appeared in the same scope and with the same features as the “War Period” , but with a different content orientation from 1916 onwards.
literature
- Stephan Brakensiek (Ed.): Wartime - artist leaflets. Art in the service of war and propaganda 1914-1916 , Norderstedt Verlag Trier 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-9384-3 ( books.google.de )
Web links
- ZDB ID 520074-x
- OCLC 11051949
- Wartime 1914 - 1916 - digitized