Berlin Secession
The Berlin Secession (German: Berliner Secession) was an art association founded by Berlin artists in 1898 as an alternative to the conservative state-run Association of Berlin Artists. That year the official salon jury rejected a landscape by Walter Leistikow, who was a key figure amongst a group of young artists interested in modern developments in art. Sixty-five young artists formed the initial membership of the Secession.
Max Liebermann was the Berlin Secession's first president, and he proposed to the Secession that Paul Cassirer and his cousin Bruno act as business managers.
In 1901 Bruno Cassirer resigned from the Secession, so that he could dedicate himself entirely to the Cassirer publishing firm. Paul took over the running of the Cassirer gallery, and supported various Secessionist artists including the sculptor Ernst Barlach and August Gaul, as well as promoting French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
The biggest conflict in the Berlin Secession was about the question if it should follow the new wave of Expressionism or not.
Notable members
- Hans Baluschek (1870–1935)
- Ernst Barlach (1870–1938)
- Paul Baum (1859–1932)
- Max Beckmann (1884–1950)
- Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967)
- Josef Block (1863–1943)
- Martin Brandenburg (1870–1919)
- Erich Büttner (1889–1936)
- Lovis Corinth (1858–1925)
- Anna Costenoble (1863–1930)
- Charles Crodel (1894–1973)
- Ludwig Dettmann (1865–1944)
- Otto Heinrich Engel (1866–1949)
- Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
- Philipp Franck (1860–1944)
- August Gaul (1869–1921)
- Hugo von Habermann (1849-1929)
- Karl Hagemeister (1848–1933)
- Philipp Harth (1885–1968)
- Emil van Hauth (1899–1974)
- Erich Heckel (1883–1970)
- Franz Heckendorf (1888–1962)
- Adolf Eduard Herstein (1869-1932)
- Dora Hitz (1856–1924)
- Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918)
- Ulrich Hübner (1872–1932)
- Willy Jaeckel (1888–1944)
- Franz M. Jansen (1885–1958)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938)
- Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960)
- Max Klinger (1857–1920)
- Wilhelm Kohlhoff (1893–1971)
- Georg Kolbe (1877–1947)
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)
- Leo von König (1871–1944)
- August Kraus (1868–1934; 1911–13 vice president)
- Bruno Krauskopf (1892–1960)
- Max Kruse (1854–1942)
- Walter Leistikow (1865–1908)
- Max Liebermann (1847–1935)
- Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther (1868–1939)
- Otto Modersohn (1865–1943)
- Marg Moll (1884–1977)
- Oskar Moll [1] (1875–1947)
- George Mosson (1851–1933)
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Emil Nolde (1867–1956)
- Ernst Oppler (1867–1932)
- Emil Orlík (1870–1932)
- Waldemar Rösler (1882–1916)
- Max Schlichting (1866–1937)
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976)
- Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg , later Ernestina Orlandini (1869–1965)
- Clara Siewert (1862–1945)
- Renée Sintenis (1888–1965)
- Franz Skarbina (1849–1910)
- Maria Slavona (1865–1931)
- Max Slevogt (1868–1932)
- Eugene Spiro (1874–1972)
- Robert Sterl (1867–1932)
- Adolf Strübe (1881–1973)
- Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917)
- Lesser Ury (1861–1931)
- Arnold Waldschmidt (1873–1958)
- Karl Walser (1877–1943)
- Emil Rudolf Weiß (1875–1942)
- Hedwig Weiß (1860−1923)
- Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944)
- Heinrich Zille (1858–1929)
Gallery
- Berlin Secession
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Exposition for Berliner Secession, (1904);
from left: Willy Döring, Bruno Cassirer, Otto Heinrich Engel, Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow, Kurt Herrmann, Fritz Klimsch -
Meeting of the Berlin Secession. From the left: Wilhelm Kohlhoff, Erich Büttner, Friedrich Scholz, Ernst Fritsch, Leo von König, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Oppler, Emil Orlik, Bruno Krauskopf, Charlotte Behrend-Corinth, Erich Waske, Franz Heckendorf by Ernst Oppler, 1921
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Kurfürstendamm 208
References
- ↑ Siegfried & Dorothea Salzmann: Oskar Moll – Leben und Werk, München 1975, S. 63;
Oskar Moll – Gemälde und Aquarelle, Ausst.-Kat, Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz 1997, Michael Kirchner, Chronologie zu Leben und Werk, S. 9
- Paret, Peter: The Berlin Secession. Modernism and its enemies in Imperial Germany, Harvard University Press 1980
External links
Media related to Berlin Secession at Wikimedia Commons