Association for Original Etching
The Association for original etching Munich eV is a non-profit organization recognized cultural association based in Munich with the aim of artistic original graphic issue and all multipliable art, discuss and provide art collectors available.
history
The association was founded in 1891 in the tradition of art associations by visual artists in order to attract collectors for etchings and to make the possibilities of technology known to the interested art public. The spelling of the founding time was Verein für Original-Etching .
The foundation was a reaction to the revitalized interest in the original artist graphics of the "Peintre-graveur". Similar foundations in other cities had preceded it, the Society for Etching Art in Weimar in 1877, the Düsseldorf Etching Club around 1878 and the Association for Original Etching in Berlin in 1886. In these artists' associations the forces who had discovered the technique of etching gathered; together one was stronger, and the form of the portfolio edition gave a cohesive picture that was more impressive than the publication of many individual sheets.
The actual initiator of the Munich Etching Association was the etcher Peter Halm , who later succeeded Leonhard Raab as professor of etching at the Munich Academy . In addition to him, Ernst Zimmermann , Sion Longley Wenban, Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel , Walter Ziegler and Hans Anetsberger were on the early board .
In the first few years the association had 115 full and 12 extraordinary members, including many well-known artists: Wilhelm Leibl , Franz Stuck , Maximilian Dasio , Albert Welti , Ludwig Raders, Julius Diez , Friedrich August von Kaulbach , Arthur Langhammer and Fritz from Uhde ; and Max Liebermann erased a sheet for the club. Some of the artists have long been forgotten, others, then still young and unknown, such as Emil Orlik and Otto Ubbelohde, are now among the recognized German etchers of the 20th century.
The association also saw itself as an exhibition association and regularly showed the work of its members and guests in the major art exhibitions of the time, such as those that took place in Munich every year in the Glaspalast . In 1892 the first annual portfolio with etchings by the members was published. In 1893 it was decided to include passive members in the etcher club, who received the simple issue of the portfolios for their annual contribution of 25 marks.
In the period around 1900, the Association for Original Etching gathered artists from Munich and from all over Germany who understood themselves to be avant-garde . The Expressionism but was already no longer popular with its members. A number of its founding members were also involved in the Munich Secession from 1892 . In the 1920s, the association stagnated, as did Munich, the city of art.
Start-up
On July 15, 1938, the association was forcibly dissolved by the National Socialists . Eduard Winkler re- established it on September 17, 1946 . Besides him, the founding members were: Ottohans Beier , Franz Doll , Ernst Haider , Anton Marxmüller and Adolf Schinnerer . In 1948 the association had 25 artist members again. However, due to his poor economic situation, he was not yet able to publish any portfolios. For this purpose, the passive members were offered signed individual sheets. New, young members like Ernst Kößlinger and Wolfgang Niesner shaped and promoted the association over the next decades.
The jubilee exhibition for the 60th anniversary took place in 1951 in the Städtische Galerie in Munich . Further thematic exhibitions were shown in the State Collection of Graphics in Munich . The exhibition on the occasion of the association's 75th anniversary took place in 1966 at the Kunstverein Munich , in the Centennial Hall in Hoechst and in the Bamberg Residence under the theme “From Leibl to Today” .
The association's first gallery opened in 1978 in the former studio of Adolf Brunner at Bavariaring 38. Since then, six to eight exhibitions have been held annually. At its 90th anniversary in 1981, the association had 50 artists and around 300 supporting members. The anniversary exhibition took place in 1991 in the gallery in Munich's town hall .
Present and goals
In the last few decades the association has opened up to all printing techniques such as woodcut , lithography , screen printing and all reproductive art such as sculpture and multiple . At the end of September 1985 the new gallery was opened at Ludwigstrasse 7. Since then, six to eight exhibitions have been held annually and guests from home and abroad have also been invited. Every autumn, the "annual gifts" created by alternating artist members for the sponsoring members and the "special editions" that allow members of the association to purchase selected works at a preferential price are exhibited. A publication appears on each of these.
In recent years there has been and continues to be cooperation with teachers and students at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts , the Munich Academy , the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Offenbach am Main University of Design .
The basic idea of the association to bring artists and collectors closer together by eliminating the commercial art trade has proven itself in the numerous activities to this day.
literature
- Henrike Junge: Cheap art. The spread of artist graphics since 1870 and the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg-Langenhorn, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1989, pp. 46–58 ISBN 3-8053-1060-9
- 100 years Association for Original Etching Munich e. V., catalog for the exhibition in the gallery in the town hall, Munich 1992
- Nothing comes like it stays. 125 years association for original etching Munich, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-00-054807-9