South Tyrolean Artists Association

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SKB
Surname South Tyrolean Artists Association
Founded June 14, 1946
Association headquarters Bolzano , Weggensteinstr. 12
Members about 400
Chairman Alexander Zöggeler, Eva Gratl (Vice)
Homepage kuenstlerbund.org

The South Tyrolean Artists Association ( SKB ) sees itself as an association of artists with German and Ladin mother tongue in South Tyrol . It was created in 1946 and is based at the Deutschhaus in Bozen . The SKB is divided into the visual arts , architecture , literature and music sections .

history

As early as 1923, a Bozen Artists' Union was founded in Bozen , but due to the fascist coercive measures it was not granted any impact. As a result, South Tyrolean artists took part in the art biennials that took place regularly in Bolzano from 1922 to 1942 and took on increasingly regime-compliant features. Most of the later founding members of the SKB had compromised themselves opportunistically with Italian fascism and National Socialism , without this being a problem in 1946 when the SKB was re-established after the Second World War . This applies in particular to the founding president Albert Stolz , who created both Mussolini portraits and exhibited them at the Innsbruck “Gau art exhibitions Tirol-Vorarlberg”. His successor in 1947 was the architect Erich Pattis , his deputy the sculptor Hans Piffrader , who had decorated the seat of the fascist party in Bolzano with a monumental relief from 1938 and became a member of the party in 1940. Other early members were Ignaz Gabloner , Rudolf Stolz , Heiner Gschwendt , Rolf Regele and Hans Plangger .

Motifs of local art and a tame expressive realism dominated the cross-sectional exhibitions of the SKB in the early post-war period . The conservative, idyllic conception of art was often in the service of ethnocentric traditions; from the 1970s and 1980s it was gradually superseded by the modern towards more permeable positions.

As a reaction to the traditionalism of the SKB, but also of the similarly oriented South Tyrolean Cultural Institute , the short-lived South Tyrolean cultural center was established in Bolzano in 1975 , which was expressly committed to “cultural initiatives of a left-wing or democratic nature”.

In 2018, the SKB emphasized that art should be apolitical and took the position that "art has absolutely nothing to do with politics".

Gallery prism

At its headquarters in Bolzano, the Deutschhaus-Ansitz Weggenstein, the Südtiroler Künstlerbund runs its own art gallery , the Prisma Gallery , which regularly hosts art exhibitions. ⊙

"Circle of South Tyrolean Authors"

The writers organized in the SKB form their own group of authors, the “South Tyrolean Authors' Circle”. He also organizes the Merano Poetry Prize and the Franz Tumler Literature Prize . In 1988 a "Documentation Center for South Tyrolean Literature" was set up to keep the legacies of regional writers and document their activities.

Publications

With the monographs of South Tyrolean artists , the SKB has been publishing its own series of publications since the 1960s, which is dedicated to the history and art of its most famous members in individual portraits.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Statutes: Südtiroler Künstlerbund; founded in 1923 as the Bozner Künstlerbund. Bolzano 1965.
  2. ↑ a b Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 46-65 .
  3. ↑ Eva Kreuzer-Eccel: Departure. Painting and graphics in North - East - South Tyrol after 1945. Athesia, Bozen 1982. ISBN 88-7014-280-9 , p. 37.
  4. ↑ Nina Schröder: United for home and idyll: the South Tyrolean Artists Association . In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol. Volume 3: 1940–1959 - Total war and a difficult new beginning. Bozen: Raetia 2001. ISBN 88-7283-152-0 , pp. 263-267.
  5. ↑ Corporations, organizations, associations and clubs: Südtiroler Kulturzentrum 1975–1998 , accessed on June 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Georg Mair: Der Harmoniker , ff - Südtiroler Wochenmagazin , issue No. 37 of September 13, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2020.