Fighting for Visibility: Woman Artists in the Nationalgalerie Before 1919 - Softcover

 
9783496016359: Fighting for Visibility: Woman Artists in the Nationalgalerie Before 1919

Synopsis

Exactly 100 years ago, the first women were allowed to participate in regular art courses at the Berliner Kunstakademie. While such a late date is no cause for celebration, it nonetheless offers the opportunity to consider the works of these women painters and sculptors, who triumphed against adversity to break into the art world and succeeded in having their works included in the Nationalgalerie's collection. Among them are Sabine Lepsius's self-conscious self-portrait, Maria Slavona's impressionistic view of the houses of Montmartre, and Caroline Bardua's spectacular paintings. Even more than the painters, the sculptors encountered opposition to their artistic activities. The powerful works of the German-American sculptor Elisabeth Ney and the Berlin artists Kathe Kollwitz and Renee Sintenis gave the lie to such prejudices. Alongside these well-known names, the catalogue and exhibition also invites visitors to discover lesser known figures, some of whom are being shown in the Alte Nationalgalerie for the first time.

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About the Author

Yvette Deseyve, Studium der Kunstgeschichte in Munchen, 2010-17 Kustodin am Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen und Lehrbeauftragte der Universitat. Seit 2017 Kuratorin fur Bildhauerei an der Alten Nationalgalerie, zahlreiche Publikationen zur Bildhauerei und Ausbildungssituation von Kunstlerinnen. Ralph Gleis, Studium der Kunstgeschichte in Munster, Koln und Bologna. Forschungs- und Ausstellungsschwerpunkt ist die Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. 2009-17 Kurator am Wien Museum, seit 2017 Leiter der Alten Nationalgalerie.

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