Shulamith Behr

Annegret Hoberg

The Search for Expression 1906-1917

Gabriele Munter

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.

Women Expressionists

Gabriele Münter

Barnaby Wright

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

El término «Expresionista» se aplicó en un primer momento a la pintura francesa contemporánea expuesta en la Berlin Secession de 1911. En los años de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el concepto «Expresionista», con un sentido ya más amplio, pentró en muchos lugares de la cultura metropolitana alemana. Aunque carecía d euna cohesión estilística, el movimiento se vio unido por su rechazo del impresionismo y por la búsqueda de una realidad propia y esencial por debajo del mundo exterior de la apariencias. Shulamith Behr explora los temas de oposición -de las ambiguas imágenes de la vida urbana y comercial a las contraimágenes del campo-. Estudia las comunidades artísticas de Dresden (Die Brücke), Munich (Der Blaue Reiter) y Berlín (Die Pathetiker) y ponde de manifiesto la influencia de los años de la Primera Guerra Mundial y de la Revolución de Octubre de 1918. Aunque el arte expresionista fue catalogado de «degenerado» durante el Tercer Reich, la tradición encontró cobijo en el repertorio del modernismo y recobró un nuevo vigor en el período de la posguerra.

Movimientos en el Arte Moderno (Serie Tate Gallery)

Expresionismo

Douglas Jarman

David Fanning

The origins of expressionism and the notion of gesamtkunstwerk / Peter Vergo -- Concepts of expressionism in Scandinavia / Marit Werenskiold -- Expressionism in exile in Great Britain / J.M. Ritchie --Expressionism: a health warning / David Elliott -- 'The ascent to nature': some metaphors of 'Nature' in early expressionist art / Gill Perry -- Expressionist sculpture c. 1910-30 and the significance of its dual architectural/ideological frame / Erich Ranfft --Expressionist architecture today / Dennis Sharp -- Expressionism and film: the testament of Dr. Caligari / Werner Sudendorf -- Musical expressionism: the search for autonomy / Christopher Hailey -- 'Wilde Musik': composers, critics and expressionism / Peter Franklin -- Defining musical expressionism: Schoenberg and others / Stephen Hinton -- The body and the dance: Kirchner's Swiss work as expressionism / Colin Rhodes -- Expressionism and dance: a literary perspective / Manfred Kuxdorf -- The religious element in expressionism theatre / Raymond Furness -- Deciphering Wassily Kandinsky's Violet: activist expressionism and the Russian Slavonic mileau / Shulamith Behr --Lothar Schreyer's theatre works and the use of masks / Brian Keith-Smith --Culture and anarchy in expressionist drama / Rhys Williams.

Expressionism Reassessed

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.

From Empire to Emancipation

Women Artists in Expressionism

Marian Malet

This volume focuses on the contribution of refugees from Nazism to the Arts in Britain. The essays examine the much neglected theme of art in internment and address the spheres of photography, political satire, sculpture, architecture, artists' organisations, institutional models, dealership and conservation. These are considered under the broad headings 'Art as Politics', 'Between the Public and the Domestic' and 'Creating Frameworks'. Such categories assist in posing questions regarding the politics of identity and gender, as well as providing an opportunity to explore the complex issues of cultural formation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century art history, museum and conservation studies, politics and cultural studies, in addition to those involved in German Studies and in German and Austrian Exile Studies.

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