Art Association for Pomerania

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The Art Association for Pomerania was an art association founded in 1834 for the three administrative districts of the province of Pomerania with its seat in Szczecin . In 1910 it was renamed the Pomeranian Association for Arts and Crafts . The association was dissolved in 1924.

history

The Art Association for Pomerania was founded with the adoption of the association's statutes on September 9, 1834 and approved by the Royal High Presidium for Pomerania on October 1, 1834. At the instigation of the painter and drawing teacher Ludwig Most , the provincial authorities and some Szczecin grammar school teachers wanted to make it possible in the field of art that was already working well in the city's organized musical life. The association was headed by a seven- to nine-person board. The Prussian heir to the throne could be won as patron. At the end of 1834, the association registered 1,034 members. The members of the association were mainly merchants, civil servants, high school professors and landowners. The number of members remained relatively constant, in 1871 with a slight increase of 1309 members. The historian Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach , who headed the association from 1834 to 1865, significantly shaped the profile of the art association. In 1910 the name of the association was changed to the Pomeranian Association for Arts and Crafts. In 1924 the association was dissolved. With the exhibition activities of the professionally run Szczecin City Museum , the organizational work of the association was no longer necessary. Other club activities were taken over by the Szczecin Museum Association and the Municipal School for Handicrafts, which was established in 1923.

The building of the municipal museum, completed in 1913, today's state (photo from 2017)

Exhibitions

The first exhibition of the Kunstverein took place from April 20 to May 20, 1835 in the restaurant of the Schützenhaus. 381 paintings were shown, 30 of them by old masters and 328 by contemporary painters, 66 by artists from Pomerania. The exhibiting artists included Gustav Adolph Hennig , August von Kloeber , Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Wilhelm Gail , Julius Hübner , Wilhelm Schirmer and Carl Friedrich Lessing . Associated with the exhibition were an art auction at which 28 of the exhibited works were sold, as well as a lottery. The Prussian art associations on this side of the Elbe, the art associations of Königsberg , Stettin and Breslau , agreed in 1834 on a joint art exhibition, which was shown every two years (from 1835) one after the other in Königsberg (January), Stettin (April) and Breslau (June) . Starting in 1843, the association used the surplus from admission fees, catalog sales and lottery to buy works of art that formed the basis for a future city museum. The first exhibition in the collection was shown in the Friedrich Wilhelms School in Szczecin in 1857. Since 1913, the association has organized regular exhibitions in the newly opened Municipal Museum on Szczecin Hook Terrace . The last exhibition supervised by the association took place in 1922.

collection

The purchases for the association's collection were based on the new developments in German and European art. Biedermeier , realism and open air painting dominated the collection around 1900 . Artists such as Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Theodor Hosemann , Wilhelm Leibl , Carl Schuch , Wilhelm Trübner , Fritz von Uhde , Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann were represented . Few old masters were added through donations, such as two portraits by Frans Hals . The great Pomeranian painters Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge were only rediscovered later. The Kunstverein's collection was transferred to the Szczecin City Museum in 1924 . In the twenties the museum director Walter Riezler continued the progressive acquisition policy of the association. In 1945 the museum's art collection was moved to the Veste Coburg and in 1966 found its place in the Pommern Foundation in Kiel . Since 2000, the paintings, drawings and graphics from the collection of the Stettin City Museum have been on view in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald .

Archival material

The files of the Art Association for Pomerania (82 file units) and the Pomeranian Association for Art and Applied Arts (61 file units) are in the State Archives in Szczecin .

See also

literature

  • Berlin sheets . Year 1934, supplement No. 43.
  • First general report on the effectiveness of the Art Association for Pomerania in Stettin up to July 23, 1835 . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . Vol. 3, Issue 2, Stettin 1836, pp. 56-76 ( digitized version ).
  • Pomeranian Foundation: Picture gallery of the Pommern Foundation in the Rant Zauberau of Kiel Castle . Neumünster 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statute of the Art Association for Pomerania in Stettin , published in 1834

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