Kriegszeit. Künstlerflugblätter

In the organizer's words:

// Wartime. Artists' flyers / 28.9.2024 - 2.2.2025 //

Opening: Fri, 27.9.2024 l 7 pm

To mark the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the cabinet exhibition presents lithographs by renowned artists from the series Kriegszeit. Artists' flyers.

With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, large sections of the German population were gripped by the general war euphoria. Political parties and the press united behind the Kaiser and the conflict under the so-called "Burgfrieden".

Otherwise rather critical of the authorities, the publisher and gallery owner Paul Cassirer published the magazine Kriegszeit. Artists' flyers. A large number of avant-garde artists were involved, for example Max Beckmann, August Gaul, Otto Hettner, Willy Jäckel, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt and Wilhelm Trübner. Their graphic works capture different perspectives of the new reality. They reflect the initial enthusiasm for the war and the exaggerated patriotism of the Wilhelmine Empire. In view of the events of the war, however, both quickly disappeared from the pictorial program; instead, its devastating consequences were now addressed. As a consequence - also of his own experience on the front - Cassirer decided to discontinue the artists' magazine in 1916.

The Middle Rhine Museum is showing the variety of motifs in the artists' flyers, which include depictions of theaters of war and battle scenes as well as portraits of popular German military leaders, caricatures and allegorical encodings of the warring parties. The selection is supplemented by a collection of documents in the form of official announcements, press releases, postcards and personal correspondence illustrating the situation within Germany during the war years.

With Hans Baluschek, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, August Gaul, Willi Geiger, Otto Hettner, Willy Jäckel, Georg Kolbe, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Oskar Nerlinger, Max Oppenheimer, Wilhelm Trübner, Hedwig Weiss and others.

In cooperation with the Framhein Collection

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