Rhenish expressionism
Rhenish Expressionists is the name given to the avant-garde group of artists who felt related to Expressionism , who painted expressionistically and who were based in the Rhineland . August Macke coined the term “Rhenish Expressionism” in 1913. The painters did not have a common artistic concept, only a common direction that corresponded to tendencies of Fauvism or Futurism . The time before the First World War is considered to be its culmination point.
In 1912 representatives of "Rhenish Expressionism" exhibited in the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne . In the following year Macke initiated the "Exhibition of Rhenish Expressionists" in Bonn , which brought together the circle of friends that had existed for years to form an artist group. Macke's goal was to establish the Rhineland as a progressive artistic center alongside Berlin and Munich . 16 artists were represented at the exhibition from July 10 to August 10, 1913 in the house of Friedrich Cohen's publishing bookstore. In September 1913, eight artists were represented at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin.
The beginning of the First World War in 1914 marked a turning point in the development of Expressionism, as many artists had to do military service, August Macke and Franz Seraph Henseler fell victim to the war. Some painters joined the group Das Junge Rheinland from 1919 on.
The archive of Rhenish Expressionism and a reference library are located in the August Macke House in Bonn .
Representatives of this group
- Heinrich Campendonk
- Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (in an early phase)
- Heinrich Dieckmann
- Ernst Moritz Engert
- Max Ernst (in an early phase)
- Otto Feldmann
- Franz Seraph Henseler
- Franz M. Jansen
- Joseph Koelschbach
- Hans Kruzwicki
- Ulrich Leman
- August Macke
- Helmuth Macke
- Heinz May
- Carlo Mense
- Heinrich Nauen
- Marie von Malachowski-Nauen
- Walter Ophey
- Olga Oppenheimer
- Paul Reinehr
- Hermann Schmitz (temporarily)
- Jean Paul Schmitz
- Paul Adolf Seehaus
- William Straube
- Hans Thuar
- Hans Vincenz
- Anton Wendling
- Gustav Wiethüchter
literature
- Dietmar Elger: Expressionism. A German Art Revolution. Taschen, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-8228-0093-7 , p. 189 ff
- Magdalena M. Moeller , August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists: Works from the Kunstmuseum Bonn and other collections [on the occasion of the exhibition "August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists", Brücke-Museum Berlin, September 28, 2002 to January 5, 2003, Kunsthalle Tübingen , January 18 to April 6, 2003] Munich: Hirmer 2002 ISBN 3-7774-9540-9
Web links
- August Macke house in Bonn
- Max Ernst Museum, Brühl
- The Brücke Museum about Macke and Rhenish Expressionism
- Climbing art
Individual evidence
- ↑ on Friedrich and Max Cohen see publishing history Bouvier-Verlag