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Hagenbund

A European Network of Modernism 1900 to 1938

The Viennese artists’ association Hagenbund played a crucial role in the artistic scene of not only Vienna but of Central Europe in general. Active from 1900 to 1938, the group united several different art movements under its umbrella and helped to introduce a new creative dynamic at a time when the Vienna Secession was slowly losing its impact. In that context, the liberal political and artistic attitude of the Hagenbund membership was revolutionary. The Hagenbund counted more than 250 members, among them Georg Merkel, Oskar Laske, Carry Hauser, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Emil Strecker, and Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg.
           
This volume traces the history of the Hagenbund and its influence, offering the first sustained analysis of the group in an art-historical context. Packed with more than three hundred color images, it will be the standard work on the Hagenbund for decades to come.

448 pages | 462 color plates and halftones | 9 x 11 1/2 | © 2014

Art: European Art


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“While there is an abundance of scholarship focused on the Vienna Secession, there is far less written about the Hagenbund, the other major Viennese modernist artists' organization of the early twentieth century. . . . Thus Hagenbund: A European Network of Modernism 1900–1938 is an important contribution. . . . The catalog is richly illustrated with reproductions of paintings, sculpture, and graphic work, . . . and it will be of value to any institution that collects books on this period.”

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Agnes Husselein-Arco
 
“Promotion of Patriotic Artistic Efforts”
The Hagenbund and the Art Policy Framework from the Monarchy to the Chancellor Dictatorship
Oliver Rathkolb
 
Intrinsic Dynamics and Extrinsic Influences. The Artists Network Hagenbund
Harald Krejci
 
AROUND 1908. BEGINNINGS, KAISER-HULDIGUNGS-AUSSTELLUNG
 
The Hagenbund as Showcase for Central European Modernism in the 1920s and 1930s
Cornelia Cabuk
 
Pragmatic Modernism. Between Avant-garde and Mainstream. Architectural Practice in the Hagenbund
Matthias Boeckl
 
AROUND 1912. EXPRESSIONISM AND THE NEUKUNSTGRUPPE
 
Between Image Building and Pragmatism: On the Hagenbund’s Exhibition Policy
Verena Gamper
 
Structure, Network, Discourse. Anatomy of an Artists Association
 Maximilian Kaiser
 
Exhibition-Chronology 1899—1938
 
AROUND 1920. TENDENCIES OF POST-WAR EXPRESSIONISM
 
Artists Associations in Exchange. Czech Art in the Hagenbund
Vojtech Lahoda
 
An Undervalued Place of often Unwelcome Painters. Polish Art in the Hagenbund
Dorota Kudelska
 
Hungarians in the Hagenbund, the Hagenbund in Hungary
Éva Bajkay
 
AROUND 1925. GIVING FORM AN ACTUAL SHAPE. VARIETIES OF OBJECTIVITY.


Art in the Service of Power
The Cultural Policy of Austrofascism 1934 to 1938 and the Dissolution of the Hagenbund
Elisabeth Klamper
 
“Extraordinary” Women in the Hagenbund. Female Artists and their Networks
Kerstin Jesse
 
UNTIL 1934. COSMOPOLITANISM AND SOCIAL CRITICISM
 
“Miscellaneous”: The Public Sphere and the Hagenbund’s Political and Social Commitment
Axel Köhne
 
Four Decades of Migration. The Hagenbund and its Artists
Károly Kókai
 
UNTIL 1938. INNER EMIGRATION AND EXILE.
 
The Modern Galerie and the Hagenbund
Kerstin Jesse
 
Appendix
Biograms ~ Verena Gamper, Maximilian Kaiser
Guests of the Hagenbund
List of reviewers
Authors Biographies
Abbreviations
Picture credits
Colophon

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