Association for Christian Art (Munich)

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The Munich Association for Christian Art e. V. (also Association for Christian Art in Munich ) was founded on November 15, 1860 by well-known artists and representatives of the Archdiocese of Munich . The purpose of the association should be to promote and convey Christian art and thereby raise its importance. Similar associations already existed in other German dioceses.

history

Even before 1850, numerous large and financially strong art institutions for church work were established, which industrially produced art objects for churches, monasteries and other institutions. This resulted in great disadvantages for the studio activities of painters, draftsmen, sculptors, carvers, cabinet makers and other artistic professions. In addition, the demand for secular art increased in the big cities and the recognition of religious art declined. Therefore, with the establishment of the Association for Christian Art, the interests of freelance artists should also be represented and supported. Since the Diocesan Art Association Freising had already been active at the diocesan level since 1857 , the newly founded association was initially intended to be a Munich branch of the Diocesan Art Association. Subordination to the diocesan association was also laid down in the association's statutes. According to the statutes, a member of the Munich cathedral chapter was given a seat and vote to represent the diocesan association in the committee of the association for Christian art. From 1865 until the dissolution of the Diocesan Art Association in 1877, this office was incumbent on the Cathedral Capitular and Vicar General Michael Rampf , who later became Bishop of Passau.

The committee elected on the founding day consisted of the following members: Academy professor Johann von Schraudolph , 1st chairman; Glass painter Joseph Scherer , 2nd chairman; Domkapitular K. von Prentner was the treasurer. The founding committee also included the painters Hugo Barthelme , Alexander Strähuber , Julius Frank , Wilhelm Hauschild , Augustin Palme and the sculptors Joseph Knabl and Johann Petz .

After the founding of the association was announced, numerous high-ranking personalities joined the association, including the later Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria , Archbishop Gregor von Scherr , the Speyer Bishop Nikolaus von Weis and the Augsburg Bishop Pankratius von Dinkel . In addition, scholars, university professors and high statesmen, among them the ministers of state Theodor von Zwehl and Karl von Schrenck , the abbot of St. Boniface and later Bishop of Speyer Daniel Bonifaz von Haneberg and the astronomer Johann von Lamont . The dioceses of Speyer and Würzburg encouraged influential clerics to join the newly founded association. In November 1861 the association consisted of 420 members. In the same year the association organized an exhibition in the Glaspalast , at which a total of 436 art objects by association artists were shown. For financial reasons, no exhibitions with works by members have been shown since 1877. After the previous chairman resigned in 1866, the academy professor Alexander Strähuber followed as chairman and Wilhelm Hauschild as second chairman. After Strähuber's death in 1882, Wilhelm Hauschild became 1st Chairman and Julius Frank 2nd Chairman. There were further changes in the board of directors in 1883. Julius Frank was promoted to 1st chairman, and Max Fürst became 2nd chairman . From 1906 Franz Wolter was 1st chairman. The current chairman is the theologian Ludwig Mödl .

In 1906 the association was entered in the local register of associations . He has published a yearbook since 1910. Volumes I to VII ( Yearbook of the Association for Christian Art in Munich eV ) appeared between 1910 and 1929. After an interruption due to the war, the association did not resume its activities until 1949. This includes lectures, seminars and art historical trips. The publication of the yearbook was not continued until 1974 with Volume VIII. Since 2007, the association has been a non-profit organization with the legal norm of a support association . The association currently has over 430 members. The registered office is in Munich.

See also

literature

  • Max Fürst : The association for Christian art in the first twenty-five years of its existence . In: Association for Christian Art in Munich (Hrsg.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, pp. 32–48.
  • Else Scheipl: History of the Association for Christian Art in Munich 1860 to 1990 . Munich 1995, ISBN 3-927457-03-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ z. B. since 1852 the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
  2. ↑ z. B. 1847 the Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt and 1841 the association for the dissemination of religious images
  3. ^ The name Münchner Zweigverein was no longer used after 1862.
  4. ↑ Club homepage