"Kiher, it's the Hamburg Artists Union"
Gu Weijing thought about it in his mind for a moment.
It was only then that we successfully matched the letters "Kih" in Vattel's mouth, President, with the abbreviation "kunstverehaburg" of the Hamburg Artists Association.
According to different regions and historical traditions, the names of art associations in various countries are often long tongue twisters, and the official names often change throughout history.
For example, the early official name of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce. Therefore, in conversations, the acronym was often used to unify the abbreviation.
The number of times and opportunities for the Hamburg Artists Association to be mentioned by people is much less than that of the Royal Artists Association.
So Gu Weijing needed to think for a few seconds before he realized what it meant.
But.
It only takes a few seconds.
“This is the most powerful artist association in Germany, right?”
Germany is one of the traditional European art powers.
Logically speaking, after the merger of the two Germanys, the most influential art organization should be the bvdg German Federal Gallery and the Federation of Art Dealers, the organizer of the Cologne Art Exhibition, one of the world's top five art exhibitions.
But I know it from the name.
This is actually a joint organization between art dealers and the German Cultural Council. It is also responsible for judicial investigations into some illegal art counterfeiting, smuggling, and money laundering.
It has little direct connection with the painters.
Secondly, there are the independent artists’ associations in each city.
"Mr. Cao Xuan seems to be a member of this association."
He remembered that when Mr. Cao Xuan went to Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts to serve as the dean of the department, he followed the locals in the local Artists Association. A name was attached.
It seems that he is still its art consultant until now.
Even if Mr. Cao did not serve in it, Gu Weijing would not be unfamiliar with the name kih.
Every student who has studied Western art history at Dewey University will be familiar with it. It is one of the top art associations with the largest scale and the most far-reaching influence among similar institutions in Germany and even Europe.
Hamburg has left a mark in the history of European art.
The artistic heart of most European countries is their capital.
Amsterdam is to the Netherlands, London is to the UK, and Vienna is to Austria.
The French are the best at engaging in regional discrimination.
Although equality and tolerance are the cultural traditions of France, the old revolutionary base, they may not be very discriminatory against foreigners, but they like to fight among themselves.
Until the 20th century, Parisian artists looked at provincial artists. To be precise, all Parisians looked at provincials like they looked at orangutans from the Stone Age.
Stendhal, DaIn the after-dinner literary readings of Parisians of the generation of Dumas and Maupassant, whenever a rich but uneducated country bumpkin appeared, they would usually be ridiculed for several pages, emphasizing repeatedly that this guy must be a nouveau riche from other places who came to Paris to broaden his horizons. The world is coming, but it is definitely not the "old Parisian people born and raised here"
The only exception is Germany, which does not have an obvious art center.
If you want to do rock music, you can go to Berlin. In terms of painting art, Hamburg and Munich are both good in the south and north. In terms of artistic atmosphere, the latter may be better, but because it happened to be an important art propaganda base for a certain head of state, it has historical baggage.
Hamburg has a long history.
Coincidentally, like its fellow Russians, Hamburg’s modern art culture also originated in 1812, the year of Napoleon’s defeat.
Well, it’s actually not a coincidence.
Two hundred years ago, when the Cossack cavalry brandished their sabers and galloped across the snowy fields, howling and slashing people, the great nobles of Hamburg were on the same side as they were running wildly and slashing.
Yes, they are all allies of the French army.
When a whale falls, everything rises.
As the anti-French coalition invaded Germany, Hamburg became one of the thirty-nine autonomous states stipulated by the Congress of Vienna.
In books, historical materialism tells us.
As the old feudal royal and aristocratic rule is swept away, artistic creation from citizen life will flourish. Hamburg soon had its first artists' association. When the Berlin Artists Association was born, the Hamburg Artists Association had already developed and matured in the wind, rain, and snow.
Today, like Vienna, it is still an important art city in the center of Europe.
The leadership of the Hamburg Art Association is a very influential and important figure in the art circle.
Judge the value of a foreign artists’ association.
The easiest way is to check the official website to see if there are enough art masters in their membership list, and you can make a simple judgment.
The quality of the Artists Association is too watery.
Even if any of the great painters were born and raised in the local area, they would not be happy to have their names listed in the membership, as they would despise his style.
Easily affect personal brand value.
On the contrary.
If an art association is very influential and can bring enough benefits to a painter's career, then everyone will want to put a name in it to become its name. Be proud to be a fellow or academician.
The French Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Arts are both in this category.
They are all from the Artists Association.
The atmosphere of the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association's grass-roots team is obvious.
Not to mention the official website, there is not even a Wikipedia entry. At first glance, it looks like some deceptive pheasant association. They can only hire painters like Gu Weijing’s grandfather Gu Tongxiang to serve as the association. consultant.
The Shwedagon Pagoda project at the beginning of the year, Master Yunset.
I have come here, but I haven’t heard of anyone who is happy to join their calligraphy and painting association as a part-time foreign member. Old man Wu was also thinking about whether he could hold a ceremony and take the initiative to dress up as a few honorary members to increase the association's value.
Even if you take a few handshake photos and hang them on the wall of the store
It would be nice to make customers feel unaware.
As a result, the Yangon Tourism Bureau thought that he might be rejected directly, which would be disrespectful to the country, so they slapped Old Man Wu back for wanting to act like a monster.
And the Hamburg Artists Association.
You can directly hire a super painter like Cao Xuan, whose paintings at auction cost more than 10 million US dollars, to become a formal association consultant.
The influence of members is great, and the influence that the association can exert will naturally increase with the tide.
It is not the same concept as the permanent director of the Yangon Artists Association like Grandpa Wu next door, who eats oranges from the government all day long, reimburses the gas card of his private car, and travels with public funds every year.
These well-known European artists' associations are very powerful.
Traditionally.
The governing structure of the association since its establishment often includes the power and protection of the city officials and mayors themselves.
A local wealthy business tycoon and old-school collector serves as the sponsor.
The most respected and prestigious artist or curator, as well as the director of a major art museum, will serve as the president and jointly decide the development direction of the association.
It forms a solid triangular support for power, art and wealth.
Perhaps it is not as good as the leader and patron of the Royal Society of Arts in every generation being the King or Queen of Britain.
But they all hold real wealth in their hands, and the real power to make people famous.
These artists’ associations are not just artists’ associations. They have their own art exhibitions with a long history, their own foundations, regular large-scale association art exhibitions and individual solo exhibitions for outstanding members of the association. that power.
Solo Exhibition
For the 9999 art practitioners in the world, it is a challenge, destined to be so high-level that they cannot touch the words.
That kind of pheasant show doesn’t count.
A serious solo exhibition requires a huge team and funds, dedicated to serving the artist himself. Every solo exhibition is a gilding and improvement of resume.
In the contract signed between Ma Shi Gallery and Gu Weijing, the ultimate reward that made Shengzi’s mother jealous was a personal exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
The Hamburg Artists Association has such financial resources and influence to open solo exhibitions for their outstanding members.
In addition.
They also have good long-term cooperative relationships with various important art museums in Europe, and even Documenta, which is as influential and famous as the Venice Biennale.
In other words, it is a non-profit art organization in name, and there is no strong partnership.They can twist their members into a rope and use them for their own purposes.
Otherwise.
Gallery giants such as Ma Shi Gallery, Leeson and Gagosian, in front of these artists' associations, are just small galleries of the younger generation.
"Germany and Austria are close relatives."
"After World War II, the third chairman of the Oil Painting Magazine made a bet with the Art Association of Hamburg at that time. To be precise, It was an extremely generous promise, a promise to boost the spirits of artists at that time. You know, the land after the war was in great need of something like that."
Munich was the German army during the war. An art base for cultural and artistic promotion.
As a famous failed art student, Mustache has been burning with "different passion" for art throughout his life.
Of course, a certain head of state would not let go of Hamburg, another city of art, but it was just slightly better than Munich, which could hardly wash away its sinful undertones.
According to the current official propaganda, kih had no choice but to fall under the control of the German military regime during the war.
Persecuted a large number of famous artists at that time.
This is already a very nice statement.
That’s not nice to say.
The leadership of kih at that time had always maintained close contact with Mustache and were Goebbels' important artistic helpers. They plundered and collected more than hundreds of thousands of "degenerate works of art" from various countries.
After more than 70 years of various pursuits.
Until a few years ago, when the tax department conducted a surprise inspection on a private apartment in Munich of the old president's son, they still found 1,400 famous paintings that had been looted during the war.
“You have to stand upright after being beaten. Post-war German local art has carried a lot of baggage. Ms. Miller, the new president of kih, invited artists who were under residential surveillance during World War II and sheltered the persecuted artists to play their part. The Chairman of the Oil Painting Directorate, who made important contributions, came to Hamburg to give a speech. "
"As we all know, the more annoying the mustache is, the more persecuted his opponents will be, the better his reputation will be after the war."
"The chairman was thrown into prison three times and twice considered for execution as a political prisoner. Even his family members in exile in Switzerland were once on the Gestapo's assassination list. Such a person survived until the war. , can you imagine how he will be welcomed?"
"I can guess a little bit." Gu Weijing nodded.
"The biographer said that he was the Churchill of the art world. The old man was once a director of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, while the mustache was not even qualified to enter the school, and the other party just liked to talk about him all his life. Art is on the lips."
Gu Weijing remembered a joke he had read on an online forum.
"Some people say that as long as he is alive, that mustache is talking about the connection between German art and Germanic nationality. When he pretends to be a cultural person, whenever he thinks of that face, he will think of himself. In fact, he was just a failed art student who never went to college. He was playing on the European battlefield.When he scolded Fang Qiu, his artistic heart of inferiority still stung Adolf. ”
“Perhaps he can make the whole of Europe bow his head and throw all the artists who do not obey him into concentration camps and special prisons of the Gestapo, but also the whole of Europe knows that in 1907 he In 1908 and 1908, he was ruthlessly rejected by a school, which considered him not qualified to study there. That is the past and regret that Adolf classmate can never change. ”
“Maybe, think about what the chairman has done, compared to Churchill in the art world. I feel more like Schindler in the art field. Of course Schindler's List wouldn't be released for another half-century. In the spring and autumn of 1946, the old chairman was far more famous and more prestigious than Schindler himself. "
Walter smiled.
"Listen to my grandpa. In the 1940s and 1950s, the old gentleman's reputation almost reached its peak in the art world. Especially in Germany, because of the shameful history, every art association wants to invite him to give a lecture, as if he could buy something from a saint to atone for his sins. "
The sketch teacher made a gesture of counting indulgences with both hands.
"This is not an exaggerated metaphor. If he is a priest or a bishop, the Vatican will not be able to do anything after his death. I really would discuss canonizing him or something. When the chairman came to Hamburg to give a lecture, he had some differences of opinion with President Miller at the seminar. ”
“The chairman believes that classical art will never die. Impressionism is just another inheritance and interpretation of classical aesthetics. Painters still have to return to the technique of brush and ink. "
" President Miller of kih is a supporter of another school of classical art theory. She believes that since the birth of the camera, the refinement and development of techniques cannot be said to be useless, but it is no longer as important as before. Creative forms that go beyond conventional forms are the future direction of art development. For example, Picasso, who was already one of the leading painting masters at that time, is a very strong evidence. "
"The two people argued endlessly and finally made a bet. Bet on whether the next watercolor master of realistic art will appear. "
"President Miller took out a watercolor painting of the Berlin Palace, a fine painting by Menzel. ”
“There is an old saying in the German collecting community. Every capable man should collect a piece of Menzel's work and put it in his living room. ”
“The Berlin Palace is the most important personal collection of President Miller and a representative work of realistic art. At that time it was worth about 4 million Reichsmarks, the price of a Rolls-Royce. "Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free reading