Seven strollers
Under the name Seven Walkers (name variations: Die faithful Seven , Die Aufrechte Sieben and Die Sieben ), a loose alliance of at times more than seven artists formed in Dresden from 1933 onwards , at a time when anti-fascist artists were barred from all activities as a group were. Those involved chose an innocuous form to exchange ideas on walks together, develop ideas and make sketches in nature.
history
After the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 and soon after, following dismissal of Otto Dix on 8 April 1933 from his teaching post at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden , there was intense political discussions, as a result, the four painters friends Otto Griebel , Erich Fraaß , Karl Kröner and Johannes Beutner united in a league of the upright seven . Hans Jüchser , Paul Wilhelm and Fritz Winkler also joined the Bund . They formed the core of an artist group to which, at times, u. a. Also Josef Hegenbarth , Wilhelm Lachnit and Theodor Rosenhauer belonged.
The retreat into the private sphere in order to exchange artistic ideas took place at a time of dire straits: the Reich Chamber of Culture imposed numerous work and exhibition bans, studios and apartments were searched and arrests made.
In 1939 they still exhibited together at the art exhibition in Kühl , but not as an officially organized group of artists. The group of seven strollers remained the only free association of former Dresden secessionists until the end of the war .
See also
literature
- Christoph Wilhelmi: Seven strollers . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-1106-7 , p. 328 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? : Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 7–8 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 336 .