Coburg Art Association
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| purpose | Mediation of contemporary art |
| Chair: | Joachim Goslar |
| Establishment date: | 1981 (previous club: 1824) |
| Number of members: | 1700 (2017) |
| Seat : | Coburg |
| Website: | http://www.kunstverein-coburg.de |
The Kunstverein Coburg eV is a non-profit and registered association based in Coburg , which is dedicated to the mediation of contemporary art and sees it as a forum for young artists. It was created in 1981 from the merger of the Coburg Art and Trade Association, founded in 1824, and the Coburg Art Association. The association is one of the oldest art associations in Germany and, with around 1700 members, is the largest art association in Bavaria .
history
Coburg Art and Trade Association
On December 8, 1824, the Coburg Art, Industry and Commerce Association was founded in the Hotel zum Grünen Baum on Coburg's market square . The association should especially improve the efficiency of the craft . In 1824 the association had 186 members. There were 105 master craftsmen (journeymen were denied membership), twelve merchants, six manufacturers, eight lawyers, five pastors, four innkeepers, three musicians, three teachers, three police officers and two pharmacists, doctors, foresters and military men. Also a larger number of administrative officials. Club life in the 19th century consisted mainly of weekly meetings of 100 to 150 people in the town hall hall , which consisted of specialist presentations on advanced training - political lectures were forbidden - and social get-togethers. In addition, the association held art and trade exhibitions at irregular intervals of two to eleven years. In 1845 the association had a membership of 550 people, which decreased to 251 in 1849 and then leveled off at around 300. In particular, the newly founded citizens' association with a more liberal club life has meanwhile become more attractive for many. The consequences of industrialization , with a strong loss of importance of the craft, led to a change from the art and trade association to a pure, general educational lecture association. Lectures and excursions shaped club life from the end of the 19th century. In 1935 the association, which still had 70 members, was forcibly converted by the city administration into a “Commercial Student Council of the Coburg Federation for Popular Education”. Instead of public lectures, only closed meetings dealing with questions of a commercial nature were permitted. Nevertheless, the association managed as a commercial student body to hold lectures on arts and crafts, guided tours, day excursions. From 1942 to the reconstitution of the association in autumn 1952, the association was idle. In the 1960s, lectures, guided tours and excursions were supplemented by occasional exhibitions, especially on handicrafts . In 1975 the Coburg Art and Trade Association had 165 members.
Coburg Art Association
On July 5, 1901, the Coburg Art Association was founded in the large hall of the club's brewery on Hahnweg, in the presence of 317 members of the educated middle class. The association wanted to promote understanding of the visual arts and the applied arts through exhibitions, the dissemination of works of art and lectures . The works of art on display were initially obtained from the Thuringian Exhibition Association of Visual Artists in Weimar and exhibited in the former Sunday School at Ernstplatz 12. In 1921 the cooperation agreement with Weimar was ended. This was followed by a reorientation towards more lectures and exhibitions with regional as well as Munich and Nuremberg artists. From 1933 the club's activities were severely restricted and finally came to a standstill in the 1940s. The few exhibitions after 1933 were shaped by the guidelines for so-called " German art ". In January 1951, the association was reconstituted with new exhibition rooms on the edge of the courtyard garden. In 1975 the Coburg Art Association had 274 members.
Coburg Art Association
Friedemann Lysek, 1st chairman in both associations, initiated the merger of the associations that suffered from a decline in membership, which was completed on July 2, 1981 with the re-establishment of the Coburg Art Association.
In the early 1950s, the former birdhouse in Ferdinand von Bulgaria's villa on the southern edge of the courtyard garden , in the small rose garden, became the Kunstverein's first own exhibition space. In the fall of 1984, construction work began on the first extension. The two-storey exhibition pavilion was built according to plans by the architect Thomas Günzler, and was inaugurated on April 13, 1986. In 2001, another extension followed.
The activities of the Coburg Art Association include eight to ten exhibitions of contemporary works of art, applied arts and handicrafts as well as lectures from the field of art, culture and art history as well as study trips. Concerts and workshops in the exhibition pavilion complete the offer of the Coburg Art Association. In the meantime, the association has developed into the center of enamel art in Germany .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2003: Werner Tübke (June 5 - August 17)
- 2015: Heinz Zander , Arcadian Events (June 20 - August 23)
- 2016: Sighard Gille , sequence. Paintings and drawings (January 16 - February 21)
- 2017: The World Poet - Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866) (January 14th - April 17th)
- 2019: Andrea Küster, Natura Morta (February 23 - April 22)
literature
- Kunstverein Coburg eV: 100 years of Coburg Art Association , exhibition from July 15 to August 19, 2001.
- Heinrich Becker: Industrial diligence and citizenship, notes on the history of the Coburg Art and Trade Association (1924–1999) . In: 175 years of the Coburg Art and Trade Association 1824 - 1999 , Coburg Art Association, 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A breath of fresh air in the board. www.infranken.de, accessed on July 4, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 28.5 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 24 ″ E