Palatinate secession

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The Palatinate Secession is the first association of visual artists that was founded in Rhineland-Palatinate after 1945 .

history

In 1945, immediately after the Second World War , artists from the Palatinate met with the aim of founding an artists' association. The first exhibition took place at the end of 1945 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . The founding of the group under the name “Palatinate Secession” took place after many difficulties in the summer of 1946. The name was intended to be the sign of a new beginning and a departure for spiritual renewal. The small group of seven artists organized an exhibition in Speyer at the end of 1946 . In the following years there were exhibitions every one to two years at various locations in Rhineland-Palatinate and other federal states. The group is not set programmatically and is also open to artists from beyond the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Today it has 29 members.

Known members

Well-known former members include Franz Bernhard , Karin Bruns , Edvard Frank , Werner Gilles , HAP Grieshaber , Erich Koch (artist) , Karl Lorenz Kunz , Wilhelm Loth , Rolf Müller-Landau , Hans Purrmann , Emy Roeder , Rudolf Scharpf , Fritz Schwarzbeck , Gustav Seitz , Theo Siegle and Fritz Zolnhofer . Current members include a. Otfried H. Culmann , Thomas Duttenhoefer , Werner Korb , Eberhard Linke and Christiane Maether .

literature

Exhibition catalogs: Palatine Secession 2005, Speyer / Berlin; Palatine Secession 2008, Neustadt-Mußbach; Palatinate Secession 2010, Speyer.

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