Berlin Secession

Jury for the Berlin Secession 1908 exhibition. From the left: sculptors Fritz Klimsch and August Gaul, painters Walter Leistikow and Hans Baluschek, art dealer Paul Cassirer, painters Max Slevogt (sitting) and [[{{{1}}}]] (standing), sculptor Max Kruse, painters Max Liebermann (sitting), [[{{{1}}}]] and Lovis Corinth.

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

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)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1863–1930)
• Charles Crodel (1894–1973)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1865–1944)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1866–1949)
• Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1860–1944)
• August Gaul (1869–1921)
• Hugo von Habermann (1849-1929)
• Karl Hagemeister (1848–1933)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1885–1968)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1899–1974)
• Erich Heckel (1883–1970)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1888–1962)
• Adolf Eduard Herstein (1869-1932)
• Dora Hitz (1856–1924)
• Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918)
• Ulrich Hübner (1872–1932)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1888–1944)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1885–1958)
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938)
• Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960)
• Max Klinger (1857–1920)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1893–1971)
• Georg Kolbe (1877–1947)
• Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)
• Leo von König (1871–1944)
• August Kraus (1868–1934; 1911–13 vice president)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (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)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1875–1947)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1851–1933)
• Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
• Emil Nolde (1867–1956)
• Ernst Oppler (1867–1932)
• Emil Orlík (1870–1932)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1882–1916)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1866–1937)
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976)
• [[{{{1}}}]], later Ernestina Orlandini (1869–1965)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (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)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1881–1973)
• Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917)
• Lesser Ury (1861–1931)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1873–1958)
• Karl Walser (1877–1943)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1875–1942)
• [[{{{1}}}]] (1860−1923)
• Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944)
• Heinrich Zille (1858–1929)

Gallery

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  Max Liebermann: Allee in Overveen

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  Lesser Ury: Cafe Bauer

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  Lovis Corinth: In the slaughterhouse

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  Max Slevogt: Nini am Weinspalier

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  Ernst Oppler: Der Maler und Jo

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  Paul Baum: Spring

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  Emil Nolde: Garden of flowers

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  Emil Orlik: Unknown woman, 1917

• Max Beckmann's 'Self-portrait with Horn', 1938-1940.jpg

  Max Beckmann: Self-portrait with Horn, 1938-1940

References

• Paret, Peter: The Berlin Secession. Modernism and its enemies in Imperial Germany, Harvard University Press 1980

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons