Naïve art

Naïve art is a collective term for artistic works of self-taught, mainly in painting (also called laity painter ), emphasizing simple, carefree, imaginative choice of motifs. The type of display is also often easy, for example without shadows, with a simplified representation of living beings and objects. The works often represent the personal dreams of the authors; whereas

History

Around 1900, the Naive Art of the laity in Paris was first discovered by modern artists, and later by art connoisseurs, as the art historian Wilhelm Uhde, : about 1885, the customs personnel Henri Rousseau, 1889 the postman Louis Vivin, 1912, the cleaning lady Séraphine Louis, 1915, the circus athlete Camille Bombois, 1927, the gardener André Bauchant. Uhde she presented in Paris in 1928 in a first exhibition as a painter of the Sacred Heart ( Peintres du Coeur sacre ).

Naive art gained great notoriety with an extensive traveling exhibition which in 1937 was to see under the title Maîtres populaires de la réalités in the Salle Royale, Paris, and the Kunsthaus Zurich and in 1938 as a Masters of Popular Painting in the gallery Arthur Tooths & Sons, London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

As late discovery applies the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani the turn of the century. After the war won the Native Painting, especially from Croatia, widespread popularity. Ivan Generalić is considered the most famous artists of this style, and in Bulgaria it is Radi Nedelchev. In Germany, the Museum Charlotte Zander Boennigheim and the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss has a larger collection of Naive Art. In Italy, the Naïve painting by Antonio Ligabue was rediscovered. Grandma Moses is the most famous American Naive painter. In Germany Petra Moll worked. In Poland, the deaf painter Nikifor was recognized late. In the Arab world, Ibrahim Ghannam was a pioneer of naive painting.

In the late 1920s used the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde for the first time the term " Naive Art " when he was in the exhibition painter of the Sacred Heart artists as he discovered Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin, Séraphine Louis de Senlis, Camille Bombois or André Bauchant united. Later, he promoted the famous German naive, Trillhaase Adalbert ( 1858-1936 ). The Erfurt merchant and painter was in the Nazi era branded as degenerate and could no longer issue. From Trillhaase comes one of the most important images: The Good Samaritan. However, the Sermon on the lake or The Mocking of Christ are also pictures, which reflect simple fateful moments for the individual. Trillhaase is regarded today as the most important Naïve painters in Germany. He died in 1936 in Niederdollendorf ( now part of King Winter ). Here still remembers the name of the park Trillhase, ( burned in 1959 ) which used his villa stood in the major artists.