WE (artist group)

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WE was a group of artists in 1959 by the painters of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Florian Kohler , Heino Naujoks and Helmut Rieger was founded. Further members were the painter Reinhold Heller in 1961 and the sculptor Hans Matthäus Bachmayer in 1962 . The group formed with the group SPUR (1957–1965) the starting point of the now internationally recognized Munich group genealogy, to which the GEFLECHT (1965–1968) and KOLLEKTIV HERZOGSTRASSE (1975–1982) emerged from the connection between SPUR and WIR.

History and direction

The renewal of contemporary art should take place through the individual works, which should at the same time be the expression of the collective. The artists trained in Informel initially oriented themselves towards the Baroque , in particular Peter Paul Rubens . From around 1962 onwards, thanks to the SPUR members HP Zimmer and Helmut Sturm, the painting of the CoBrA artists Karel Appel and Asger Jorn gained influence. Like the CoBrA artists, Helmut Rieger and Reinhold Heller found new inspiration in Jean Dubuffet 's work, which was inspired by naive painting and Art brut .

In 1965 the artist group WIR merged with the Munich group SPUR to form SPUR-WIR. This merger became the GEFLECHT group a year later.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Cobra, trace, we, mesh, collective Herzogstrasse , exhibition catalog, Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn, 1983.
  • Group SPUR and Group WIR, magazine , No. 1, Munich, 1965.
  • Group WIR, 1959–1965, Bachmayer, Heller, Köhler, Naujoks, Rieger , exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Munich; Art Association Salzburg, 1987.
  • Group WE. 1959-1965 . Hans Matthäus Bachmayer, [an exhibition by the Lothar & Christel Fischer Foundation and the city of Neumarkt id OPf .; Museum Lothar Fischer, January 25 - May 3, 2015; Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, May 22 - September 13, 2015]. Edited by Pia Dornacher and Selima Niggl. With contributions by Andrea Brandl. Schreiber, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88960-146-9 .
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7762-1106-1 , p. 360 (No. 231).

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