Chemnitz art works
The Chemnitzer Kunsthütte Association , founded in 1860, was dissolved again on December 29, 1947 by order 41 of the SMAD. The Kunstverein Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte e. V. was founded on January 24, 1990 in the tradition of the old art association.
history
Foundation of the association
On January 24, 1860, the Chemnitzer Kunsthütte was founded as an association of Chemnitz artists and art lovers. At the beginning it had 30 members. Its membership grew steadily and reached a maximum of 1291 in 1924. The first chairman was the businessman Moritz Langbein. The declared aim of the association was to bring artists and art lovers together and to bring art closer to people in different ways.
On July 15, 1860, the first exhibition was opened in the club, which was visited by around 500 people. Only Chemnitz artists and art hut members were represented with works. From then on, the implementation of exhibitions was a constant in the association's area of activity. Foundation festivals have also been handed down, which included a varied program with self-designed theater performances, a shared table and works of art reproduced by visitors.
Starting in 1861, the association awarded annually prizes for the most talented students in the subjects of drawing and modeling. He was also committed to introducing drawing lessons at schools in Chemnitz. Here took Fedor Flinzer one a leading role. Furthermore, the Kunsthütte campaigned for the erection of a memorial for Christian Gottfried Becker , the first major industrialist in Chemnitz. It was built on the square between the old stock exchange and the secondary school (today at Posthof 4) and was ceremoniously unveiled on May 29, 1870. At the beginning of the 1940s, however, it was dismantled again and melted down as a war metal donation.
The association began collecting activities as early as the 1860s. The collection grew through donations, acquisitions and donations and in 1889 already comprised 39 oil paintings, one pastel, five watercolors, two wax color pictures, nine sculptures, 15 collections with 343 copperplate engravings and etchings, six hand drawings, three woodcut collections, three color prints, one lithograph and eleven collections with 44 photographs. From 1873 the association began to offer lectures, which, however, were only presented continuously from 1904. The focus was on art and historical topics.
Opening of the King Albert Museum
In 1909 the association moved to the King Albert Museum, which opened in the same year . There he was made available some rooms and undertook to design his exhibitions “in a manner worthy of the purpose of the King Albert Museum”. This represented a turning point in the history of the Kunstverein. 500 works of painting, graphics and sculpture were exhibited at the opening ceremony and 200 artists were invited. The majority of the exhibitors were Dresden and Munich artists whose achievements were considered to be assured. But members of the artist group “Brücke” could also take part: Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl-Schmidt Rottluff
During the First World War, the association's exhibition and lecture activities continued after a short break. The number of visitors fell to about half during the war. At the beginning of the 1920s, the Kunsthütte began to dedicate its exhibitions and lectures increasingly to modern art, especially expressionism, which in some cases met with fierce criticism and incomprehension. From 1924 the number of members decreased steadily. Resignations were mostly justified with a lack of understanding for the contemporary art shown in the exhibitions.
time of the nationalsocialism
The "Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur" protested against these exhibitions. In April 1933 Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand, the director of the museum, was on leave and released in October of the same year. He resigned himself from the board of the Kunsthütte in April. His successor as museum director was the art historian Wilhelm Rüdiger. He had made it his goal to wipe out "everything foreign to the German racial soul". In the end, the Kunsthütte was expressly geared towards “German art coming from the people” and the democratic statute was replaced by the Führer principle. It now subordinated itself to the cultural-political maxims of National Socialism. During this time, the Kunsthütte's exhibition operations continued.
post war period
On June 15, 1945, Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand was reinstated as director of the municipal art collection, the Kunsthütte was dissolved on December 29, 1947 due to the order 41 of the SMAD. The art holdings of the association became the property of the Chemnitz City Art Collection .
New Chemnitz Art Cabin
The Kunstverein Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte e. V. was founded on January 24, 1990 in the tradition of the Chemnitzer Kunsthütte. Werner Ballarin became the first chairman, the main initiator and later also the first director of the Neue Sächsische Galerie.
The Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte is a non-profit association that aims to promote contemporary art in Saxony. The art association wants to achieve this through exhibitions, art talks, lectures, symposia and other events. It currently (December 2018) has over 200 members and is a member of the Federal Association of German Art Associations (AdKV).
In 1996 the Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte took over the sponsorship of the Neue Sächsische Galerie , which was founded during the political change. She has been in charge of the municipal collection of Saxon art since 1945 . The Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum for contemporary art has been located on the first floor of the former TIETZ department store since 2004 and has a permanent exhibition space of around 700 m². Their collection contains over 12,000 works of Saxon art after 1945. These include works of fine and applied arts, as well as works of industrial design. Most of the works come from the collection of the former district art center Karl-Marx-Stadt and are now mostly acquired through donations, transfers or sponsorship.
Locations
- 1872–1909 Lechlasche Villa, Annaberger Straße 25 (destroyed in the war)
- 1909–1947 König-Albert-Museum, today Chemnitz art collections
- 1990–1998 former Stasi headquarters, today part of the Schmidt-Rottluff-Gymnasium
- 1998–2004 old stock spinning mill, today library of the TU Chemnitz
- since 2004 DAS TIETZ, cultural center
Web links
literature
- Seventy-five years of the Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz - commemorative publication and catalog. Chemnitz 1935.
- Gabriela Juppe, Stephan Pfalzer: The association "Kunsthütte zu Chemnitz". In: Mitteilungen des Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein, yearbook 62, new series 1, Chemnitz 1992, pp. 47–78.
- Gabriele Viertel: The “Kunsthütte” from 1860 to 1947. In: Festschrift - 140 years of the Kunsthütte - 10 years of the Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz 2000, pp. 13-17.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 49
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 50
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 51
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 54
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 57
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 68
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 69
- ↑ Juppe / Pfalzer 1992, p. 73
- ^ Statutes of the NCK eV
- ^ Collection of Neue Sächsische Galerie