First Modernist Women Artists in Latvia and Their Paths into the International Art Scene / Baiba Vanaga. 16. Marianne Werefkin: Clemens Weiler's Legacy / Bernd Fathke -- 2. Marianne Werefkin -- From the Blue Rider to the Great Bear: An Exhibition in Retrospect / Petra Lanfermann -- Section 1. The Cultural Worlds of Marianne Werefkin. Part 1. Germany and Switzerland as Places of Exchange and Inspiration -- 3. Marianne Werefkin in Prerow, 1911: The Periphery as Focus / Kornelia Roder and Antonia Napp -- 4. Exile, the Avant-Garde, and Dada: Women Artists Active in Switzerland during the First World War / Isabel Wunsche -- Part 2. Crossing National, Cultural, and Gender Borders -- 5. The Cosmopolitan Approach as a Constituent Aspect of Modernist Thought / Tanja Malycheva -- 6. Women Artists of Marianne Werefkin's Circle: Sisters or Rivals? The Case of Vera Abegg-Verevkine / Laima Surgailiene-Lauckaite -- 7. Performing the Wo/man: The "Interplay" between Marianne Werefkin and Else Lasker-Schuler / Shulamith Behr -- 8. "Between us sleeps our child -- art": Creativity, Identity, and the Maternal in the Works of Marianne von Werefkin and Her Contemporaries / Dorothy Price -- 9. Transcending Gender: Cross-Dressing as a Performative Practice of Women Artists of the Avant-garde / Marina Dmitrieva -- Section 2. The ¿uvre of the Women Artists in Marianne Werefkin's Circle and Beyond. Part 3. The Women Artists in Marianne Werefkin's Immediate Circle -- 10. Erma Bossi / Carla Pellegrini Rocca -- 11. Maria Marc's Letters / Kimberly A. Smith -- 12. Elisabeth Epstein: Moscow-Munich-Paris-Geneva, Waystations of a Painter and Mediator of the French-German Cultural Transfer / Hildegard Reinhardt -- 13. The Artist Elena Luksch-Makowsky: Between St. Petersburg, Munich, Vienna, and Hamburg / Simone Ewald -- Part 4. The Women Artists in Marianne Werefkin's Larger Cultural Circle -- 14. Natalia Goncharova: Artistic Innovator and Inspiring Muse / Olga Furman -- 15. Women as Catalysts for Innovation in Printmaking: Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva and Elizaveta Kruglikova / Galina Mardilovich -- 16. First Modernist Women Artists in Latvia and Their Paths into the International Art Scene / Baiba Vanaga.
Summary:
Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle' traces the relationships between the modernist artists in Werefkin's circle, including Erma Bossi, Elisabeth Epstein, Natalia Goncharova, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Else Lasker-Schuler, Marta Liepina-Skulme, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, and Maria Marc. The book demonstrates that their interactions were dominated not primarily by national ties, but rather by their artistic ideas, intellectual convictions, and gender roles; it offers an analysis of the various artistic scenes, the places of exchange, and the artists' sources of inspiration. Specifically focusing on issues of cosmopolitan culture, transcultural dialogue, gender roles, and the building of new artistic networks, the collection of essays re-evaluates the contributions of these artists to the development of modern art.
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