Gruppe SPUR
TRAIL, also TRAIL, was an avant-garde Artists Group, which was founded in Munich in 1958. You made an important artistic and with their manifesto and theoretical contribution to the German Avant-garde after 1945. Temporarily succeeded your connection to the European Situationist International.
History
The SPUR - artists met at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich know. In 1957 they formed up to the group, which existed until 1965. Members of the group SPUR were together with the CoBrA group, representatives of the group, Guy Debord and other artists, writers and theorists, the Situationist International. The artists focusing on both painting and with socio-political issues, which is not a contradiction but a programmatic component was for them.
The group gave out 1960 and 1961 seven books under the name of TRAIL. The most famous magazine with a circulation of 1500 pieces and numerous illustrations is number 6, trace in exile, the only color printed magazine.
At the end of the third Conference of the Situationist International, the group distributed on April 21, 1959 in Munich Manifesto, the leaflet A cultural coup while you sleep! . The signatories were Prem, HP Zimmer, Helmut Sturm, Gretel Stadler, Lothar Fischer, Asger Jorn, Dieter Rempt, Erwin Eisch and G. Britt. In the leaflet, the group interspersed with pithy words from the art world and calls: "Who wants to create culture, must destroy culture. ". The artists speak of art any reference to the truth and call the abstract painting from a " hundredfold licked [n ] chewing gum ". Are you calling " kitsch, the dirt, the primeval mud, the desert ," " error, an honest nihilism " and prophesy the future of painting as " polydimensional ". As each " third wave " they sat down in the tradition of Tachism, Dada, Futurism and Surrealism. The manifesto concludes with incantation -like formulas: "WE ARE THE THIRD WAVE. We are a sea of waves ( Situationism ). WE ARE THE PAINTER OF THE FUTURE! "
Against the group, inter alia one of the most spectacular blasphemy of the FRG took place. Prem, Helmut Sturm, Dieter Kunzelmann HP rooms and were sentenced in the first instance for distributing indecent publications to prison terms of five months or five months and two weeks, but they were exposed in the second instance on probation. A constitutional complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court, however, was finally rejected in 1975.
Members
The group SPUR included the following artists:
- Erwin Eisch (* 1927), a founding member
- Lothar Fischer (1933-2004)
- Prem (1934-1978)
- HP Zimmer (1936-1992)
- Helmut Sturm (1932-2008)
Against 1960 came Dieter Kunzelmann ( b. 1939 ) to the group and became their theorist and co-editor of the magazine SPUR. He was here the author of several articles and author and Signing of various pamphlets and manifestos, such as the January Manifesto.
The painting of the group is influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Tachism and the direction Informal as well as the theories of the Situationists Asger Jorn and Guy -Ernest Debord. The Munich group was considered as the official German section of the Situationist International, to its exclusion on 10 January 1962.
Collections
The museum SPUR in Cham will work and work of the group and their regional relation to the Upper Palatinate ( a part of the SPUR artists comes from this region ) and document to Cham. A more extensive special collection with about 30 works of Peter and Gudrun Selinka Foundation is issued in temporary exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg. The Museum Lothar Fischer in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz deals in changing exhibitions also work with the group.