Catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 19 September 2018 - 17 March 2019 and at Berlinische Galerie, 5 April - 12 August 2019. Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185).
Contents:
Biography and Historical Events / Philipp von Wehrden. Words of Greeting / Thomas Köhler -- A Conservative Modernism: Lotte Laserstein's Portraits - Between Realism and New Objectivity / Alexander Eiling -- From the Limelight to the Sidelines? Lotte Laserstein - A Painter of the Forgotten Generation / Elena Schroll -- Images of Self-Confidence / Annelie Lütgens -- Constructed Gazes, Stages Realities: Lotte Laserstein's Reinterpretation of Iconographic Models / Anna-Carola Krausse -- Catalogue / Valentina Bay, Alexander Eiling and Elena Schroll -- The Art of Becoming Famous with Art / Lotte Laserstein and her Career Strategies / Kristina Lemke -- Our Pictures: Frienship and the Female Nude / Kristin Schroeder -- A New Life in Emigration: The Swedish Years / Maureen Ogrocki -- Biography and Historical Events / Philipp von Wehrden.
Summary:
This book reintroduces the work of German-Swedish painter Lotte Laserstein, who was known for her groundbreaking portraiture in the 1920s and 1930s. After being one of the first women to graduate from Berlin Art Academy in 1927, Laserstein began making a name for herself in Weimar era Berlin's thriving art scene. She was a remarkable portraitist, capturing everyday citizens of Berlin, from motorcyclists to girls playing tennis, to women applying makeup. The volume features fifty works by Laserstein that show her artistic development during the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for spurning the usual depiction of women and instead portrayed the 'New Woman' who embraced fashion and personal freedom. Unfortunately, her career came to an abrupt halt in 1937 when she was forced to flee Nazi Germany for Sweden. She continued to paint in exile, but her work never regained the same intensity or sensitivity as her Berlin portraits and she fell out of the public eye. Laserstein's works from this key period in her career have recently been rediscovered and this volume aims to bring them back into the spotlight.00Exhibition: Städel Museum, Frankfurt (19.9.2018 - 17.3.2019) / Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany (5.4. - 12.8.2019).
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