New Art Fides

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Paul Klee exhibition in June 1926 in the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides. Interior design by Hinnerk Scheper .

The Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden was founded in 1923 . Under the direction of Rudolf Probst , the latest works of expressionism and abstract painting were presented.

The focus was on Emil Nolde and the Bauhaus artists Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy . Works by Otto Dix , Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka , Marianne von Werefkin , as well as works by Dresden artists such as Pol Cassel , Willy Kriegel , Eugen Hoffmann , Wilhelm Rudolph and Christoph Voll were also shown . The Galerie Neue Kunst Fides helped these young artists gain recognition. In autumn 1933 the gallery was closed due to economic problems and political pressure.

history

As early as the turn of the century, the Arnold Gallery and the Emil Richter Art Salon presented the latest trends in the international art scene and performed pioneering services for modern art. Rudolf Probst worked from 1918 to 1923 as head of the modern department at the Emil Richter art dealership. In 1923, together with the two former officers Rolf von Seydewitz and Eberhard von Haugk, who came from the Saxon aristocracy, he founded the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides as a subsidiary of the “Fides Verwaltungs und Vermittlungsgesellschaft mbH”. As a non-profit company, the gallery should only be commercially active to the extent that it is economically viable. Rudolf Probst saw himself primarily as an art mediator and only then as an art dealer.

In June 1923 the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides opened at Zinzendorfstrasse 2a with an exhibition of works by Emil Nolde . In September 1924, the "Cabinet at Ferdinandplatz, Department for Modern Living" was opened at Viktoriastraße 24, offering modern arts and crafts such as furniture, porcelain, glass and metalwork, toys, lamps and products from the Bauhaus in Dessau . At the end of February 1926, the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides moved into new and larger rooms at Struvestraße 6. The exhibition rooms were designed by Hinnerk Scheper , who was then the director of the wall painting workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

In 1928 the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides found itself in an economic emergency and, in recognition of its charitable work, received financial support from foundation funds from the city of Dresden and from private sources for three years. During this time, Rudolf Probst became the sole owner of the gallery. In February 1932 the gallery had to move to smaller rooms at Prager Strasse 24. The gallery was supported with donations through the “Friends of the New Art Gallery”. Numerous well-known artists and people from the art world belonged to the association, including Karl Albiker , Lyonel Feininger , Hans Hartung , Wassily Kandinsky , Willy Kriegel , Ida Bienert , Kurt Arnhold , Will Grohmann , Wolfgang Balzer and Franz Roh .

On May 1, 1933, Rudolf Probst was asked by the Sturmabteilung SA to destroy the holdings in his gallery within 24 hours. Probst did not follow this request, but brought the works of art to safety. But he was forced to liquidate the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden in autumn 1933.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Karl-Ludwig Hofmann, Christmut Präger: "Trailblazer into new territory". The art dealer Rudolf Probst . In: From Monet to Mondrian. Modern masterpieces from Dresden's private collections from the first half of the 20th century . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-06631-1 , p. 61-68 .
  • Karl Ludwig Hofmann, Christmut Präger: Rudolf Probst 1890–1968, gallery owner . Nimbus, Wädenswil 2015, ISBN 978-3-907142-88-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Roßbeck: Marianne von Werefkin. The Russian from the Blue Rider's circle . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-913-4 , p. 216, note 37 .
  2. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 56 .
  3. ^ Advertising poster for the cabinet on Ferdinandplatz. Modern Home Decor , Collection MOMA, accessed February 13, 2015
  4. ^ Wolfgang Kermer : Willi Baumeister - typography and advertising design . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-145-X , p. 307.

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