Association of art lovers in the countries on the Rhine

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The Association of Friends of Art in the Länder on the Rhine was an association of representatives from the arts, politics and business of West German , Alsatian and German-speaking Swiss cities, which was founded in 1904 on the initiative of the writer Wilhelm Schäfer in Düsseldorf . Schäfer became managing director of the association, the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt its patron. Schäfer's magazine Die Rheinlande , published since 1900, was published by the association from 1905. The association and its magazine promoted the idea of ​​a cultural community of the " Rhineland ", understood as "the countries on the Rhine". The association promoted authors and visual artists through awards and publications. He founded art commissions in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Basel and Hagen. He also organized exhibitions. In 1908 the city of Zurich and German-speaking Switzerland joined the association. The association consisted of around 2000 members, primarily aristocrats, industrialists and artists. It disbanded in 1922.

Art exhibition Stuttgart 1914

One of the highlights of the association's exhibition activities was the “Art Exhibition Stuttgart 1914”, which was inaugurated the year before by Kgl. Art building took place on Schloßplatz. On behalf of the association, Adolf Hölzel had set up a so-called "Expressionist Hall" (room XVIII). In the foreword to the catalog by Wilhelm Schäfer : “In line with the general endeavors of the association to help strong talents against popular taste, but under their own responsibility, is the hall of the so-called Expressionists, which Prof. Adolf Hoelzel set up on behalf of the association. It shows painters of the most recent trend who at first did not find the applause of the public, but who, because of the undeniable seriousness and zeal of the artists, seemed worthy of careful attention to the association; Even the reluctant may be protected from cheap ridicule by the authority of Adolf Hoelzel. ”The following artists were represented (the number of exhibited works in brackets): Gertrud Alber (1), Willi Baumeister (3), Walter Bötticher (1 ), Paul Bollmann (1), Carl Diem (1), Josef Eberz (3), Peter Eggers (1), Adolf Erbslöh , Marusja Foell (1), Lily Hildebrandt (1), Adolf Hölzel (1), Hermann Huber ( 1), Johannes Itten (1), Ida Kerkovius (1), Edmund Kinzinger (1), Marie Lautenschlager (1), August Macke (1), Heinrich Nauen (1), Walter Ophey (1), August Ludwig Schmitt (1 ), Oskar Schlemmer (3), Hermann Stenner (1), William Straube (1), Alfred Graf Wickenburg (1). Works by Bötticher, Bollmann, Diem, Eberz, Eggers, Foell, Hildebrandt, Hölzel, Kinzinger, Lautenschlager, Ophey and Stenner could also be seen elsewhere in the exhibition.

literature

  • Wilhelm Schäfer : On the history of the association of art lovers in the countries on the Rhine . In: The Rhineland . Bagel-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1917, issue 3, pp. 59-72 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inga Pohlmann: "Schäfer liked my essay over expectation" - The Constance artist and author Heinrich Ernst Kromer as an employee of the cultural magazine "Die Rheinlande" . Lecture manuscript from January 21, 2014, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, ( PDF )
  2. ^ The other modernism - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922 . Website in the portal karlsruhe.de , accessed on December 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Kerstin Glasow: Hermann Hesse and the cultural magazine "Die Rheinlande" . Website in the portal literatur-archiv-nrw.de , accessed on December 3, 2015
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog Art Exhibition Stuttgart 1914 . Kgl. Art building, Schloßplatz, May to October, ed. from the Association of Friends of Art in the States on the Rhine, Stuttgart 1914, pp. 5-6.