Unna artist circle

The Unnaer Künstlerkreis (UKK) was founded in 1948 after an art exhibition was held for the first time after the Second World War in 1947 in the back room of the “Sozietät” restaurant in Unna . The then head of the cultural office in Unna had encouraged and brought the artists together.

background

The weekly meetings in Unna Castle , today's Hellweg Museum in Unna, served to draw together. The artists themselves acted as models or hired homeless people from the homeless shelter for a small fee. In the early years, exhibitions were limited to the Unna district, and the group's works were regularly presented in the town hall. Through work on the festive events and other public contracts from the city and district of Unna, as well as in 1964 through the increase in the budget for art purchases in the district, there was strong mutual influence between art and politics.

Artist

In the art exhibition of Westphalian artists organized by the city of Unna from December 7 to 17, 1947, the following artists showed their work:

From the Unna district:

• Wilhelm Buschulte
• Wolfgang Fräger
• Carl Heuer
• Lothar Kampmann

Guests:

• Alfred Kitzig (Ahlen)
• Max Schulze-Sölde (Werl)
• Eberhard Viegener (Bilme)
• Josef Wedewer (Lüdinghausen)
• Irmgard Wessel-Zumloh and
• Wilhelm Wessel (Iserlohn).

In later years HA Schult was also a member of the group.

Joint exhibitions

• 1947: Law firm - Unna
• 1951: Ehrenhof - Düsseldorf
• 1952: town house - Dortmund
• 1954: Kurhaus - Unna
• 1958: Hellweg Museum - Unna
• 1968: Hellweg Museum - Unna

literature

• Un-art (Ed.): The fine arts in Unna after 1945. The artist groups Unnaer Künstlerkreis and UN-art , self-published in 1992