Association of Rostock Artists

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Signet VRK (1919, Egon Tschirch)
former Villa Peter E. Erichson 1919 exhibition site of the VRK
Former municipal museum from 1920 exhibition site of the VRK

The Rostock Artists' Association was an artist group that was founded in January 1919 and existed until the mid-1930s. It included leading representatives of Rostock Modernism from painting , graphics , sculpture and architecture .

history

After the First World War , there were few exhibition and sales rooms available to artists in Rostock . That is why the architect Walter Butzek and the painter Egon Tschirch developed the idea of ​​creating a union of artists as a “ Secession in a small setting”. The founders of the Rostock Artists Association also included the painters Rudolf Bartels , Bruno Gimpel , Hans Emil Oberländer and their first chairman Thuro Balzer .

Funded by the publisher Peter E. Erichson , the first exhibitions took place in his Rostock villa, Moltkestrasse 19, in 1919. From 1920 - now supported by the "Kunstverein zu Rostock" - annual exhibitions were held in the art and antiquity museum .

Within a short time the Rostock Artists' Association developed into a center of attraction for representatives of modern art . In the artist group, followers of various art directions gathered, u. a. Impressionists , Expressionists and advocates of the New Objectivity . Younger artists in particular saw the VRK as a modern counterpoint to the established art business in museums. In addition to the Bauhaus student Dörte Helm , progressive architects of the new building and reform architecture expanded the creative spectrum. Until the 1930s, the members of the VRK set the artistic tone in Mecklenburg beyond Rostock .

“... the artists who belong to it close themselves off against nothing, but place themselves right in the middle of the impetuous blowing of the foremost zeitgeist. Only one pole of her being rests in her home, the other lies in the "big world", and her life moves in tensions between the two. "

- Prof. Leo Bruhns , 1927

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , the artists' associations in Germany were brought into line. The main aim of the Reich Chamber of Culture Act was the state organization and monitoring of culture. From then on, all exhibition projects had to be approved.

The founding member Bruno Gimpel was urged to leave in July 1933 because he was Jewish .

The VRK finally joined the Combat League for German Culture under its last chairman, Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff . This practically ended the existence of the Rostock Artists' Association as an independent group of artists in the mid-1930s.

Members and exhibitions

  • Walter Butzek (1927) Warnemünde Monument to the Fallen

  • Franz Nicolai (1927) Dethardingstrasse residential area

  • Bruno Wagner (1928) Röper House Warnemünde

  • Nicolai / Wagner / Scheel (1935) Sparkasse building

Mother and son in need
Kate Diehn-Bitt , 1930

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(please note copyrights )

Ahrenshoop
Friedrich Einhoff , around 1928

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Warnemünde tea pavilion
Walter Butzek , 1925/26

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Founding members
other members (selection)
Honorary members
Chairperson - consecutively
Guests in VRK exhibitions
Exhibitions
  • 1919 Güstrow; Wismar; Parchim
  • 1919 Villa Peter E. Erichson Rostock, Moltkestr. 19th
  • from 1920 annual exhibitions in the Rostock City Museum
  • 1922 collective exhibition with the Rostocker Kunstverein
  • 1923 Egon Tschirch. The Song of Songs
  • 1927 Exhibition of the VRK in Hanover and in the Berlin Palace
  • 1928 Architecture exhibition "Modern architecture"
  • 1929 anniversary exhibition "10 years VRK" with special exhibition Heinrich Tessenow

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Joachim Bernitt : North German Latest News , March 1, 1988
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolf Karge: Artists' Associations 1900–1933. In: Fine arts in Mecklenburg 1900–1945. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01406-8 , pp. 83-84
  3. ^ Website Kunstverein zu Rostock . Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  4. ^ A b Oscar Gehrig: Association of Rostock Artists. Published by GE Diehl, Berlin 1927, pp. 4-9
  5. ↑ Marcus Pfab: Rostock Art of the 1920s to 40s - Between Traditionalism and Moderate Modernism. State examination thesis University of Greifswald - Diploma thesis agency, 1998, ID 929, p. 9
  6. ^ A b Heidrun Lorenzen: Between adaptation and refusal. In: Fine arts in Mecklenburg 1900–1945. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01406-8 , pp. 219–249
  7. ↑ Rostocker Anzeiger , August 27, 1926
  8. ↑ a b c d Rostocker Anzeiger , March 23, 1926
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Rostocker Anzeiger , March 31, 1927
  10. ↑ a b c d Rostocker Anzeiger , July 27, 1919
  11. ↑ a b Rostocker Anzeiger , May 3, 1931
  12. ↑ a b c Rostocker Anzeiger , September 9, 1919
  13. ↑ a b c d Rostocker Anzeiger , February 28, 1922
  14. ↑ a b c Rostocker Anzeiger , April 8, 1930
  15. ↑ Rostock Cultural History Museum: Poster 1921, Inv.-No. K9010
  16. ↑ a b Spring exhibition VRK catalog 1926
  17. ^ Art in the GDR picture atlas. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  18. ^ Andreas and Martina von Hollen: Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff: Liebe zur Landschaft BoD - Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 3-8370-8635-6 , p. 21
  19. ↑ Rostocker Anzeiger , May 4, 1933
  20. ↑ a b c Rostocker Anzeiger , June 20, 1928
  21. ↑ a b Rostocker Anzeiger , March 27, 1929
  22. ↑ a b Rostocker Anzeiger , July 22, 1919
  23. ↑ website exhibition directory ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock, p. 68, accessed on September 5, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de
  24. ↑ Rostocker Anzeiger , June 29, 1927