Charles Crodel Der Blinde The Blind Man edition of 200 From Hamburg German Expressionist Journal Kundung 1921

Kundung, the German Expressionist Art Journal started in and produced by Hamburg German Expressionist. The journal, like the Expressionist ideal was to show the new style and cast off the academia of the time, showing and wanting art to embrace the new ideals of the world and possibilities.  Expressionism drifted to quick and bold art of the woodcut. Like other movements, the counterpoint of standard in which art is perceived. With the bold and stark black lines and quickness of the Expressionism, it showed the opposite of what was the academia at the time. Like the Dada group of 1915, opposition to what was perceived as art was the art.
A quote that sums up the mood of Expressionism, .."Perhaps more importantly, the emergence of this new kind of building reaffirmed for the Hamburg Expressionists that their movement represented not just a repeal of the past, the rejection of the bourgeois academism that had stifled the arts for so long; it could forge a new vision for society, form the basis of a new, spiritually fulfilling aesthetic to take them into the future.”

The journal Kundung,..”artists contributing to Kündung, what would be Hamburg’s last great Expressionist periodical, this new style of architecture must have resonated fiercely. They too were working in monochrome, with black and white woodcuts cut roughly by hand. They relied on the naturally variegated grain of the woodblock to lend surface texture, much like the defective clinker. And while they sought a wild, jagged, primitive quality to each cut, treating the three-dimensional surface of the block like totemic sculpture, this harshness was tempered by a strict structural ordering of individual components.”

The Journal was created buy Rosa Schapire and Wilhelm Niemeyer, academic luminaries of the Expressionist movement. The co-op attitude of the journal was funded by the members of the journal, a tool used by many early 20th c artist of the new ideal, a new utopia that combined forces allowed groups and journals to take shape.
The Journal had a run of about 200 copies per issue, and a budget higher than other Expressionist group in Germany, this allowed for the journals to be not just art but “was to be a large and lavish affair: short stories, lyric poetry and critical essays typeset in ornate Gothic scripts, all accompanied by printed woodcuts and lithographs by a host of contemporary artists.”

Up for sale is one of the pages from the amazing and pivotal journal of German Expressionism
Artist: Charles Crodel
Title: Der Blinde (The Blind Man).
edition of 200 from Kundung 
Unsigned on thin paper 
Printed in Hamburg Germany
Date: 1921

Size: 16 3/8 x 12 5/8 inches 
Condition: a page from the journal, the edges are rough, not torn or damaged from removal from the journal. The lower margin has pencil text. No damage to the page or image. Please see the images provided for more details. 

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