Association for Young Art

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The Association for Young Art was founded in 1922 by the Oldenburg lawyer Ernst Beyersdorff .

As an association for the promotion of contemporary art - similar to the Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover in 1916 and the Society of Friends of Young Art in Braunschweig founded by Otto Ralfs in 1924 - it has been offering a varied cultural program of exhibitions, readings and lectures, dance events and Concerts, a social center of the avant-garde in the province west of Bremen. The Association for Young Art received great support from Walter Müller-Wulckow , the founding director of the State Museum for Art and Cultural History .

In May 1933, after almost eleven years of association activity and under pressure from National Socialist cultural policy, it was decided to dissolve itself.

literature

  • Anna Heckötter: "For the Creation of the Living" - The State Museum and the Association for Young Art, in: The second departure into modernity, ed. by Rainer Stamm , Bielefeld 2011, pp. 30–45.
  • Peter Reindl: Ernst Beyersdorff and the "Association for Young Art" in Oldenburg, in: Avant-garde and audience. On the reception of avant-garde art in Germany 1905–1933, ed. by Henrike Junge-Gent, Cologne 1992, pp. 17–28.
  • Jörg Michael Henneberg: "Man, Hans, now we have vacation!". Members of the “Association for Young Art” took a trip to Italy in 1933, in: Kulturland Oldenburg , Heft 3 (2011), pp. 8-15.
  • State Museum for Art and Cultural History (Ed.): Ernst Beyersdorff . Oldenburg collector, sponsor and lawyer, Oldenburg 2017.