· 2022
A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde culture Women Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early twentieth century. Shulamith Behr shows how the posthumous critical reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker cast her as a prime agent of the feminization of the movement, and how Käthe Kollwitz used printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and sociopolitical commentary. She looks at the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter, whose different paths in life led them to the Blaue Reiter, a group of Expressionist artists that included Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Behr examines Nell Walden’s role as an influential art dealer, collector, and artist, who promoted women Expressionists during the First World War, and discusses how Dutch artist Jacoba van Heemskerck’s spiritual abstraction earned her the status of an honorary German Expressionist. She demonstrates how figures such as Rosa Schapire and Johanna Ey contributed to the development of the movement as spectators, critics, and collectors of male avant-gardism. Richly illustrated, Women Artists in Expressionism is a women-centered history that reveals the importance of emancipative ideals to the shaping of modernity and the avant-garde.
· 1999
"The term 'Expressionist' was initially applied to French modern painting displayed in a Berlin Secession exhibition of 1911. By the time of the First World War, the broader concept of 'Expressionsim' permeated German metropolitan culture at many levels. Though lacking stylistic cohesion, the movement was united by a rejection of Impressionism and a search for an inner, essential reality behind the external world of appearances. Shulamith Behr explores themes of opposition - from equivocal images of the city and commercial life to counter-images of the country."--BOOK COVER.
"Expressionism reassesed focuses on the multi-disciplinary development of Expressionism, setting it in a cultural, political, and historical context. The international team of specialists cover painting, music, theatre, sculpture, film opera, architecture, and dance." -- Back cover.
German Expressionist M nter (1877-1962) was one of the co-founders of The Blue Rider artists group and was Wassily Kandinsky companion. Largely unknown outside Germany, her reputation eclipsed by male contemporaries, M nter's work was the subject of a 2005 exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, for which this catalogue was pr
· 1988
An investigation into the role of women in the Expressionist movement of the 20th-century. The author submits that women not only participated in the major exhibitions but also contributed to the formation of the movement's concepts.
Published to accompany exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 22 June - 1 October 2006, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 21 October - 4 February 2007.
· 2018
Ludwig Meidner is an outstanding Expressionist and one of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th century. His drawings, paintings and literary works register the upheavals and convulsions of his time. The conference proceedings of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt present the current status of scholarly Meidner research and explore Meidner's oeuvre and its reception as phenomena of contemporary history. A major focus is directed on the explicitly Jewish aspects of his works and their changeful perception.
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Om den svenske maler Sigrid Hjertén (1885-1948)