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The
Cologne Progressives
was an art movement and were an informal group of artists based in the
Cologne
and
Dusseldorf
area of Germany. They came together following the
First World War
and participated in the radical
workers' movement
.
History
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The group was founded by
Gerd Arntz
,
Heinrich Hoerle
and
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
.
[1]
The group related their attitude to art to their political activism. As
Wieland Schmied
put it, they "sought to combine constructivism and objectivity, geometry and object, the general and the particular, avant-garde conviction and political engagement, and which perhaps approximated most to the forward looking of
New Objectivity
[...] ".
[2]
They originated
Figurative Constructivism
.
Other artists and designers associated with this group include Wilhelm Kleinert,
Marta Hegemann
,
Angelika Hoerle
,
Anton Raderscheidt
, and
Gottfried Brockmann
.
[3]
Many members had come from the
Stupid (art movement)
.
[3]
Key concepts
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Reversibility
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This concept comes from their concern not merely to communicate social and political necessities, but also to ensure that their artworks could be turned toward the viewers sensible reality and become tenable as an argument. This is tied to their political commitment to
proletarian culture
in the specific context of the
Rhineland
during the tumults of the 1920s.
[4]
See also
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References
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- ^
Everett, Martin.
"Art as a weapon: Franz Seiwert and the Cologne progressives"
. Lib Com
. Retrieved
17 October
2014
.
- ^
Wieland Schmied: "Neue Sachlichkeit. Der deutsche Realismus der zwanziger Jahre", in:
Kritische Grafik in der Weimarer Zeit
,
Op. cit.
, p. 21. As cited in:
August Sander 1876?1964
. Lange, Susanne, p. 108.
ISBN
3-8228-7179-6
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a
b
"Brockmann, Gottfried"
.
Museum der verlorenen Generation
. Retrieved
2021-06-07
.
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Roth, Lynette (2008).
Painting as a weapon : progressive Cologne 1920-1933 : Siewert, Hoerle, Arntz
(translation, Uta Hoffman ed.). Koln: Walther Konig.
ISBN
9783865603982
.