November Group (German)
The November Group was an artists' association founded in Berlin on 3 December 1918. The name derives from the November Revolution of 1918. 1935 was her end was sealed with the removal from the Register of Associations of the city.
History of the artist group
In the first few months were 170 artist of the newly formed group in November: 49 of them alone came from the editorial environment of Herwarth Walden's periodical storm. Initially joined the group of artists Italian Futurists, significant DADA artists as well as important Bauhaus members, some of whom belonged to the older Werkbund to.
Weimar Republic
The artists of the November Group identified themselves as radical and revolutionary. Their work, like the work of the Council for the Arts, to which they were in close relationship should support the social revolution in Germany. Relevant aim of the artist was the union of art and people. In addition, the group trying to influence public cultural tasks.
1921 formulated especially artists from the left wing of the November Group, a call that turned against the gentrification of the artist association. The call was signed by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Rudolf Schlichter and Georg Scholz and published in the opponents.
In 1922 the work of decentralized November Group was abandoned with the local groups. The November Group was integrated as an important part in the cartel advanced groups of artists in Germany.
Characteristic of the artists of the November Group is a Stilsynkretismus, which is also often referred to as " Kubofutoexpressionismus " means. The November Group was known for this variety of their styles and disciplines, but is also criticized for these inconsistencies and the difficult stylistic Einordenbarkeit related.
Besides painting, artists mostly from architecture and music were represented. The music section belonged to the line by Max Butting ( later replaced by Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt ) with their workshop work at one of the most productive forces.
The November Group held regular artists' parties, costume parties, studio visits, literary and musical event series.
Exhibitions
The most important means of self-expression exhibitions were organized regularly. Each year the members of the group of artists were represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with a separate room November Group. In addition, they exhibited together with the artists of her on the Republic of scattered local groups ( Hallische group of artists, forces the ball, group Rih, Üecht, Dresden Secession group in 1919, The Young Rhineland, De Stijl ).
Among her exhibitions, the November Group invited representatives of major international artists or groups of artists. So put 1919 Marc Chagall, 1920 Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Marie Laurencin, 1922 Henryk Berlewi and 1923 El Lissitzky ( with its legendary Proun room ) in the Department of the November Group on the Great Berlin Art Exhibition from. Also included in 1923 Ivan Puni and Laszlo Peri to the exhibiting artists.
Among the most important international exhibition of collaboration included the cooperation with the Italian Futurists in Rome in 1920, which was arranged by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the November group member Enrico Prampolini.
1925 a closed group Prague architect participated in the exhibition of the November Group on the Great Berlin Art Exhibition.
1926 took part in the Berlin architecture exhibition more than 30 architects from the November Group.
Organised by the November Group Kasimir - Malevich - show 1927 was one of the highlights of her exhibition history.
National Socialism
By the National Socialists, the November Group was designated as Red November Group. Because of their commitment to abstraction and atonality its members were accused of being Bolshevik. In 1935, she was removed from the register of associations. After Oskar Schlemmer's details, the artist group is, however, burst in 1932.
Founding members
The initiators of the establishment were mainly the painter Max Pechstein, Georg Tappert, César Klein, Moriz Melzer and Heinrich Richter - Berlin, who had been active in the 1914 resolution Neue Secession in Berlin. At the first meeting of 3 December 1918 on the establishment was sealed, was also attended by: the painter Karl Jakob Hirsch, Bernhard Hasler, Richard Janthur, Rudolf Bauer ( artist ), Bruno Krauskopf, Otto Freundlich, Wilhelm Schmid, the sculptor Rudolf Belling and the architect Erich Mendelsohn. In this personal composition were forming the first working committees of the November Group.
Members
An accurate determination of the members is nearly impossible through attrition and the lack of documents. A list of the members of the state of the November Group was printed in the catalog of 1925. A second member list of 1930, prepared by the Managing Director of the November Group, Hugo Graetz. Among the most about 120 members were architects, painters, musicians, and art theoretician. To you hear: Jankel Adler, Lou Albert - Lasard, Peter Alma, Fred Antoine Angermayer, George Antheil, Hans Arp, Rudolf boom, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Behrens- Hangeler, Rudolf Belling, Henryk Berlewi, Xenia Boguslavskaya, Hans Brass, Nicholas Brown, Marcel Breuer, Max Butting, Heinrich Campendonck, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, Kinner of Dressler, Friedrich Peter Drömmer, Max Dungert, Josef Eberz, Heinrich Ehmsen, Hanns Eisler, Conrad Felix Müller, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Fischer, Fred Forbat, Hans Freese, Otto Freundlich, Theodor Fried, Ernst Fritsch, Heinz Fuchs, Alfred Gellhorn, Paul Goesch, Gottfried Graf, Otto Griebel, George Grosz, Bernhard Hasler, Emil van Hauth, Gustav Havemann, John Heartfield, Wilhelm Heckenroth, Hans- Siebert von Heister, Wieland Herzfelde, Oswald Herzog, Karl Jakob Hirsch, Leon Hirsch, Hannah Höch, Lothar Homeyer, Jascha Horenstein, Johannes Itten, Philipp Jarnach, Alexej Jawlensky, Walter Kampmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Bernhard Klein, César Klein, Fritz Klein, Isay Kulvianski, Otto Lange, El Lissitzky, Alfred Lomnitz, Thilo Maatsch, MH Maxy, László Moholy -Nagy, Ewald Mataré, Moriz Melzer, Carlo Mense, Hilla Rebay, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Otto Möller, Rudolf Möller, Johannes Molzahn, Georg Muche, Albert Mueller, Otto Nagel, Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, Felix Petyrek, Enrico Prampolini, Ivan Puni, Anne Ratkowski, Franz Radziwill, Heinrich Richter - Berlin, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Rohlfs, Kurt Hermann Rosenberg, Walter Ruttmann, Hermann Scherchen, Rudolf Schlichter, Wilhelm Schmid, Paul Schmolling, Georg Schrimpf, Kurt Schwerdtfeger, Arthur Segal, Lasar Segall, Mart Stam, Heinrich Stegemann, Fritz Stuckenberg, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Georg Tappert, Bruno Taut, Heinz Tiessen, Niko Vassiliev, Kurt Weill, Ines Wetzel, Gustav Wiethüchter, Carel Willink, Gert Wollheim, Stefan Wolpe, Vladimir Rudolfowitsch bird, peoples Karl and Walter Spies.
Publications
- Calling all artists. 47 P. Berlin 1919. Posts by Johannes R. Becher, Kurt Eisner, Konrad Haenisch, Walter Hasenclever, Bernhard Kellermann, Ludwig Meidner, Max Pechstein and Paul Zech. Various image offerings. Envelope Max Pechstein.
- Monthly journal, The art pot. 1st Edition July 1920. It appeared only 6 issues. 6 Bulletin December 1920.