Women Artists in Expressionism

From Empire to Emancipation

Shulamith Behr

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Princeton University Press
01 March 2023

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Art & design styles: Expressionism; Gender studies: women

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 feminisation of the movement, and how Kthe Kollwitz used printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and sociopolitical commentary. She looks at the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Mnter, 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-centred history that reveals the importance of emancipative ideals to the shaping of modernity and the avant-garde.

By: Shulamith Behr
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9780691044620
ISBN 10: 0691044627
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shulamith Behr is honorary research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is the author of Expressionism, Conrad Felixmller, 18971977: Works on Paper, and Women Expressionists and the coeditor of Arts in Exile in Britain 19331945: Politics and Cultural Identity.

Reviews for Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation

The book is well researched, providing an absorbing picture of some neglected figures and revealing the interminable discord between sexes. ---Christian Kile, Sehepunkte