Image series 41 / 2024: Women Artists in Modernism
self-confident, assertive, professional
Around 1900, many women artists successfully asserted themselves with great independence and professionalism in a male-dominated cultural sector. From Paris and Frankfurt, they established international networks, worked in studio communities and organised themselves in professional women artists’ associations. They supported each other in overcoming existing social hurdles and disadvantages in education and in the art world. They explored their own existence in a wide range of styles and reflected the social and aesthetic upheavals of the time.
Around 80 paintings and sculptures by 26 female artists invite visitors to discover them in the exhibition and to reinterpret the representation of the genders in art history.
“Women. Women Artists between Frankfurt and Paris around 1900”
10 July until 27 October 2024, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Hanna Bekker vom Rath. Fabrik im Lorsbachtal (Kapselfabrik), Ausschnitt, ca. 1930, Öl auf Presspappe, 43,5 × 57 cm, Hofheim am Taunus; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Olga Boznanska. Selbstporträt mit Blumen, Ausschnitt, um 1906-1907, Öl auf Karton, 68 × 49 cm, Krakau; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Louise Catherine Breslau. Le retour du marché, Ausschnitt, 1907, Pastel | Papier | Carton, Paris; Paris Musées
Eugenie Bandell. Sonne am Mittag (Wilhelmsbad), Ausschnitt, 1913, Öl auf Leinwand, 64,5 × 70,5 cm, Frankfurt am Main; User Uploads, prometheus – Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre
Dora Hitz. Weinernte, Ausschnitt, vor 1911, Öl auf Leinwand, Berlin; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Marg Moll. Selbstbildnis, Ausschnitt, Büttenpapier, 52 × 37 cm, St. Annen; digiCULT Museen, digiCULT, Kiel