Special Association of Austrian Artists
The Sonderbund of Austrian Artists in Salzburg was founded by Anton Faistauer in 1925. The members were partly recruited from the dissolved artists' association Wassermann , such as Maria Cyrenius, Wilhelm Kaufmann , Georg Jung, Robert Wittek von Saltzberg, Elfriede Mayer, Franz Schrempf, Emma Schlangenhausen , Luise Spannring. In addition there were Faistauer's students Theodor Kern, Anton Steinhart , Josef Schulz and the other painters Rudolf Dimai, Georg Jung, Poldi Wojtek, Hilde Heger , Slavi Soucek, Alberto Susat , Sibylle Le Gay, Franz Schaffgotsch , Erich Wulz, Willy Eder, the writer Karl Heinrich Waggerl and the sculptors Roland von Bohr and Hans Pontiller . In addition, the new Sonderbund included all former members of the "Austrian Sonderbund in Vienna", converted into an art show .
The Sonderbund first appeared in the summer of 1925 with an exhibition in the Great Aula of the former University of Salzburg. This room was chosen with care because of its proximity to the already internationally renowned Salzburg Festival . Contributions to this exhibition were made by a. the architects Clemens Holzmeister and Peter Behrens . In 1928 the Sonderbund was again able to offer a representative cross-section of artistic creation in Germany and Austria (including Expressionism and Constructivism ) in the Great Aula , while the Salzburg Art Association in the Carabinierisaal of the Residenz with the exhibition "Half a century of Salzburg art!" remained at the provincial level.
The Sonderbund was dissolved in 1938 when the art and culture industry was brought into line by the National Socialists .
literature
- Nikolaus Schaffer: A short flight of highs and a slow stranding. Oppositions within the art association: "Wassermann" and "Sonderbund". In: 150 Years of the Salzburger Kunstverein (Ed.), Art and the Public 1844-1994. Salzburg 1994, pp. 115-143.
- Gert Kerschbaumer: Art in the gears of politics: 1933 - 1938 - 1945. In: 150 Years of the Salzburger Kunstverein (publisher), Art and the Public 1844-1994. Salzburg 1994, pp. 145-169.