Gereonsklub
Gereonsklub
Artist collective
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]