Abstraction-Création

Abstraction- Création was founded on the initiative of the Belgian painter, sculptor and architect Georges Vantongerloo in Paris on February 15, 1931 cosmopolitan association of artists of modernism, which existed until 1937. Other founding members - many of which previously belonged to the group " Cercle et Carré ", others Theo van Doesburg's Art Concret - were Theo van Doesburg, Antoine Pevsner, Naum Gabo and Auguste Herbin. The group grew quickly to a number of up to 400 members.

The goal of " Abstraction- Création " is to create a forum for the Abstract Art was. These included joint exhibitions, readings, and discussions, public relations and publications. The group became the spiritual and organizational center and rallying point for the concerns of the representatives of the concrete, constructivist and geometric art movements.

In the years 1932-1937, the Artists' Association issued the almanac " Abstraction- Création, Art Non- figuratif ". The union made ​​a lot of theoretical and methodological groundwork for the non-representational art. The artists were concerned with color studies in which physical- optical phenomena have been studied that have an impact on the vision of the viewer. These include, for example, flicker and spatial plastic color vision.

The content and publicity work of " Abstraction- Création " and their exhibitions contributed significantly to the increase in social recognition of abstract art.

The group " Abstraction- Création " broke up in 1937.

Most of the important artists of the group " Abstraction- Création " were later mostly multiple, represented on the documenten in Kassel, in particular from 1955 to 1964 at the documenta 1, documenta II and documenta III, whose focus was on abstract art.

Members

Members of the group Abstraction- Création have included ( in chronological order of their birth years):

  • * Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russian painter
  • František Kupka (1871-1957), Czech painter
  • Piet Mondrian * (1872-1944), Dutch painter and art theorist
  • Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952), painter, patron of the arts and art collector
  • Auguste Herbin (1882-1960), French painter
  • Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), Dutch painter, architect and art theorist. Art concret.
  • Robert Delaunay (1885-1941), French painter
  • Alexandra Povorina (1885-1963), Russian- German painter
  • Antoine Pevsner * (1886-1962), Russian painter and sculptor
  • Georges Vantongerloo * (1886-1965), Belgian painter, sculptor and architect
  • Hans Arp * (1886-1966), Alsatian painter and sculptor
  • * Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Merz artist from Hannover
  • Josef Albers (1888-1976), German painter
  • * Willi Baumeister (1889-1955), German painter and stage designer
  • El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Russian painter, photographer and architect
  • Carl book Heister (1890-1964), German painter
  • Naum Gabo (1890-1977), Russian sculptor, painter and architect
  • Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893-1952), Polish constructivist
  • Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), English painter.
  • István Beöthy (also Etienne Beothy ) ( 1897-1961 ), Hungarian sculptor and architect
  • Alexander Calder (1898-1976), American sculptor, Mobiles.
  • Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951), Russian and Polish Constructivist. Sculptor and painter.
  • Vordemberge - Gildewart (1899-1962), German painter, sculptor and writer
  • Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Italian painter and sculptor
  • Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962) Swiss- American painter, graphic designer and author
  • Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), British sculptor
  • Jean Helion (1904-1987) French painter. Art concret.
  • Tutundijan Leon (1905-1968), Armenian artist. Art concret.
  • Max Bill (1908-1994), Swiss architect, artist and designer
  • Théo Kerg (1909-1993), Luxembourgian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and glass designer.
  • Taro Okamoto (1911-1996)

NB: are marked with an asterisk former members of the " Cercle et Carré ".

Literature and sources

  • Abstraction- Création, Münster, 1978: Abstraction- Création, (exhibition catalog) Westphalian State Museum; Münster 1978
  • Münster, Anke, art is play and deep seriousness. The Imaginistin Alexandra Povorina ( 1885-1963 ). Life and Work ( Diss ), casting 2004
  • Murken - Altrogge, Christa / Murken, Axel Hinrich; Processes of Freedom - From Expressionism to the Soul and Body Art; Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1756-5
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