The Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz, 1909–10; home of the Gereonsklub.

The Gereonsklub was an avant-garde artists' association in Cologne in the years immediately prior to World War I.

Its founding members were the artists Olga Oppenheimer, Emmy Worringer, and Franz M. Jansen.[1][2][3][4] Later members included Marta Worringer and August Macke. Named for the Gereonshaus building designed by the architect Carl Moritz, in which Oppenheimer had a studio, it opened in January 1911 and closed in 1913.[1]

The Gereonsklub operated as a center for lectures and exhibitions and had a painting school run by Oppenheimer.[1] Emmy Worringer and her brother Wilhelm, an art historian, booked the lectures and organized the exhibitions.[1][5][6] In its short history, it exhibited such notable artists as Franz Marc (1911), Paul Klee (1912), Robert Delaunay (1913), and August Macke.[1] In 1912, the Gereonsklub was the first stop for an early touring exhibition of the Blue Rider group.[1][3][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Association August Mackehaus (ed.) Der Gereonsklub: Europas Avantgarde im Rheinland (The Gereonsklub: Europe's avant-garde in the Rhineland). Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-929607-08-5.
  2. ↑ "Emmy Worringer". Verein für Computergenealogie. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 Meseure, Anna (2000). Macke. Taschen. pp. 57–. ISBN 978-3-8228-5859-2.
  4. ↑ Wilmes, Daniela (2012). Wettbewerb um die Moderne: Zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels in Köln nach 1945. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-3-05-006245-7.
  5. ↑ Camfield, William A.; Ernst, Max; Spies, Werner (1993). Max Ernst. Prestel Verlag GmbH + Company. ISBN 978-3-7913-1260-6.
  6. 1 2 Short, Christopher (2009). The Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1909-1928: The Quest for Synthesis. Peter Lang. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-3-03911-399-6.
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