Young Rhineland (Das Junge Rheinland) was an association of
avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
artists formed in
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...
on 24 February 1919.
History
The poet
Herbert Eulenberg
Max Herbert Eulenberg (1876–1949), was a German poet and author born in Cologne-Mülheim, Germany. He was married from 1904 to Hedda Eulenberg.
Biography
1920s
Eulenberg was the publisher of many books, for which he wrote the introducti ...
was one of the main instigators of the group, along with painter
Arthur Kaufmann and the writer and illustrator
Adolf Uzarski. The group was formed following the lack of any Rhenish artists in the Great Berlin Exhibition.
The art historian, came up with the name in 1918 when he was organising the first exhibition of the group in the Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Some earliest members of Young Rhineland included
Heinrich Nauen,
Adolf Uzarski,
Arthur Kaufmann,
Carlo Mense
Carlo Mense (May 13, 1886 – August 11, 1965) was a German artist, associated at various times with the Düsseldorf school of painting, Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity.
Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at th ...
,
Walter Ophey,
Werner Heuser
Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ...
,
Ernst te Peerdt and
Wilhelm Kreis.
References
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German artist groups and collectives