Art Community (Vienna)

The palm house in the Burggarten, formerly the seat of the art community

The art community was an association of visual artists in Vienna . It existed from 1919 to 1938.

history

The art community was founded in May 1919 on the initiative of the sculptor Carl Gelles . Gelles had previously submitted two of his sculptures for an exhibition of the Society of Fine Artists Austria, Künstlerhaus , which had not been accepted.

The seat and exhibition venue of the art community was the Palm House in Vienna's Burggarten , which was often referred to as the “Glass Palace” in connection with the association. Gelles demanded, among other things, the expropriation and nationalization of the Künstlerhaus and the Vienna Secession . He emigrated to Argentina in the early 1930s and the new leadership of the art community took a less radical approach. In the “Glass Palace” important art exhibitions of the members continued to be shown.

After the “Anschluss” in 1938, the art community was dissolved. Like the Albrecht-Dürer-Bund and the Hagenbund, it was part of the community of visual artists, the Wiener Kunsthalle .

Known members (selection)

• Alfred Bareis , painter
• Leopold Beran , painter
• Maximilian Erler , painter
• Carl Gelles , sculptor
• Stephanie Hollenstein (1886–1944), painter
• Ernst Huber (1895–1960), painter
• Oskar Icha (1886–1945), sculptor
• Karin Jarl-Sakellarios (1885–1948), ceramicist
• Wilhelm Kaufmann (1895–1975), painter
• Robert Kautsky (1895–1963), painter
• Viktor Leyrer , painter
• Giulio Angelo Liberali , painter and sculptor
• Konrad Meindl , painter
• Hermann Nowak , painter
• Alfred Pirkhert , painter
• August Rieger (1886–1941), painter
• Alexander Scherban (1886–1964), painter
• Franz Secky , painter
• Rudolf Sternad (1880–1945), painter
• Jacques Sternfeld (1874–1934), painter
• Thomas J. Stindel , painter
• Clara Sulzer , painter
• Josef Urbania , sculptor
• Alfred Waagner (1886–1960), painter
• Ernst Weid , painter

literature

• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Art community. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 638 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Felix Czeike (Ed.): Art community. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 638 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Michaela Pappernigg: 20th century art. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century . tape 2 : G-K. Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-490-3 , p. 31 .
3. ^ Alfred Bareis in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on March 6, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Association of Austrian Visual Artists "Art Community" . In: Austrian Art. Monthly for the fine arts and their relationship to cultural life , February 1931, p. 32 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Hollenstein, Stephanie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 402.
6. ^ Ernst Huber in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on March 6, 2020.
7. ↑ Jarl-Sakellarios, Karin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 81.
8. ↑ biography. In: wilhelm-kaufmann.at. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Robert Kautsky in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on March 6, 2020.
10. ^ Liberali, Giulio Angelo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 181.
11. ^ ^{A b} Association of Austrian Artists, Art Association. In:  Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung , March 10, 1932, p. 7 (online at ANNO ). .
12. ↑ Sternfeld, Jacques. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 239.