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Der Fels (English: The Rock) was group of German Expressionist artists that existed from around 1920 to 1927.




History


The group's origins lay in the meeting of Franz Bronstert, Fritz Fuhrken and Georg Philipp Wörlen in a World War I prisoner of war camp in Ripon, England. Other members of the group were Reinhard Hilker and the Austrian Carry Hauser. Wörlen, who was significantly older than the other members, was the driving force. At their last joint exhibition Fritz Stuckenberg also took part. All the group's artists were later condemned by the National Socialist government as entartet ("degenerate").
Der Fels published a series of eight portfolios of prints (Verlag Krieg, Leipzig). The first one also contained a manifesto by Heinz Klapproth:

"Do you see things as they are? Form is disguise, deception. Things are not as you think you see them! Therefore become still and simple, because you are looking with your eyes and seeing only the surface. The artist fights titanic battles to win the souls of things, to penetrate to their depths, to vanquish the surface. The result of this is EXPRESSION - and this is what unites the people of the Fels."




Selection of group exhibitions


1921: Hagen, Museum Folkwang
1921: Hagen, Kunst-Kabinett Kollock
1921: Landesmuseum Münster
1922: Bremen, Graphisches Kabinett Fedelhören
1922: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1922: Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
1922: Hamburg, Kunstsalon Maria Kunde (Graphik)
1922: Salzburg, Moderne Galerie (Staatsgalerie)
1922: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
1922: Berlin, Kunstsalon Heller
1923: Werkbundhaus Essen
1923: Barmer Ruhmeshalle
1923: Oldenburg, Kunstsalon Lappan
1923: Ulm, Hermelin-Verlag
1923: Kunsthalle Kiel
1923: Kunsthalle Barmen
1924: Landesmuseum Münster
1924: Städtisches Museum Elberfeld (Von der Heydt-Museum)
1925: Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen (Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen)
1926: Vienna, Kunstsalon Würthle
1926: Eisenach, Kunstsalon Messing
1927: Städtische Gemäldegalerie Bochum (Museum Bochum – Kunstsammlung)
1991: Passau, Museum Moderner Kunst (retrospective)




Sources


Otto Breicha, Franz X. Hofer and Franz Theodor Csokor: Der Fels, Künstlergemeinschaft, 1921–1927, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau 1991, ISBN 3-9802307-9-1 (Museumskatalog, Landstrich; Nr. 15)




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