Art in Dresden and the Leipzig School
Modern Art and the Art Scene in Dresden and Leipzig
If you are looking for young and affordable original art in Leipzig & Dresden, you will quickly come across the art gallery Inspire Art, which is located in the heart of the artists' quarter of Dresden's Neustadt. With its up-and-coming artists, it has a lot to offer and is now known as a promoter of regional art in Dresden, throughout Saxony and beyond. The new scene of Neo Rauch culture describes a success story of our time. New important painters such as Bernhard Heisig, Arno Rink & Werner Tübke are increasingly becoming the focus of new artistic creativity.
Dresden, the European capital of art and culture, offers its visitors sights of the highest order. Its cultural history is now over 800 years old. The symbiosis of dynamic modern development with the ancient art and cultural treasures of Augustus the Strong is particularly exciting.
Vernissage: Gallery for emerging and recognised Dresden artists, founded in 2005 by Andreas Garbe & Thomas Stephan >>> to the Gallery
The artists' association "Die Brücke"
When one thinks of art in Dresden, the artists' association "Die Brücke" immediately comes to mind, even for the not so well-versed art connoisseur. "Die Brücke" was an expressionist artists' group founded in June 1905 by four architecture students (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff). The group was considered a pioneer of German Expressionism. The name "Die Brücke" comes from one of its founders, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. However, it is not clear through research whether he was referring to the many bridges in Dresden when he gave the name or rather the metaphor that art can build a bridge.
The remarkable thing about the Brücke painters was that, in addition to their attention to pictorial form and composition, they paid particular attention to the mental and psychological moments of human beings. In doing so, they often depicted taboo subjects that caused a great stir at the time. The aim was to shake people up and make them think. The group followed a uniform style of painting, which was characterised by intense and contrasting colours. Details were omitted and forms were coarsened. The paint was mainly applied pasty. Typical themes of the group were circus life, nude painting in acrylic and oil, depictions of dance and landscapes.
Young important artists from Dresden
The Dresden gallery Inspire Art also developed from an association of Dresden artists (artists' group), whereby the creative process of each artist is free, so there is no uniform style of painting. In regular exhibitions, which usually take place quarterly and are based on a fixed, uniform theme, the oeuvre of the main exhibitor is juxtaposed with the individual works of the artist group, both spatially and thematically. Dresden's up-and-coming artists use the vernissage here to enter into conversation and exchange ideas with art lovers and those interested in art.
New Leipzig School
Not far from the cultural capital of Dresden lies Leipzig, which is no less "art-interesting". Some important painters who have achieved worldwide fame began their careers here. The so-called "Leipzig School" played a significant role in this:
(c) Works by Neo Rauch (Leipzig School) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Dresden artists' group "Die Brücke")
The origins of the "Leipzig School" can be found in the artist scene of the city of Leipzig and go back to the 1960s. Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer can be named as the "founders". Teachers of the "Leipzig School" included Harald Hellmich, Gerhard Kurt, Elisabeth Voigt and Walter Arnold. The founders of the school were characterised by a very individual and idiosyncratic visual language and thus made the school a centre of art in the GDR.
Contrary to what one might initially assume, the term "Leipzig School" does not mean that teaching was uniform. Rather, it refers to the very high standards that the school represented across generations and styles. Great emphasis is placed on a profound analysis of society, which then finds expression in exceptional craftsmanship. Within the "Leipzig School", one can classify a formal, objective direction and an expressive, emotional style. The best-known student of the Leipzig School is Neo Rauch, who today has a significant international influence on the art scene.
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