1922 Group


The 1922 Group was an art group within the Silesian Artists' Association. It was founded in 1922 and lasted until 1932.
Its members included students and tutors at the Breslauer Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe: Isidor Aschheim, Willy Braun, Paul Dobers, Paul Fegler, Paula Grünfeld, Julius Haberfeld, Karl Hanusch, Ludwig Peter Kowalski, Paquita Kowalski-Tannert, Thomas Myrtek, Georg Nerlich, Max Odoy, Konrad Scheu, and Hans Zimbal.
The artists "did not set up a rigid program by which they wanted to work and be judged. But they consciously combined inner experience with naturalism. Only occasionally does an expressionist gesture intervene. Such a gesture never becomes dominant. And that is precisely why the Breslauers remained quietly recognized and survived in the following period. Their teachers belonged to the "Brücke" or were close to it. Their confidant was Professor Hanusch, who was teaching in Breslau at the time. Their confident drawing, their fine way of recognizing and capturing the beautiful in the inconspicuous or in the waves of the loud and occasionally intrusive, can still be seen in the group's works today."

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