Art Historian Silvia Wistuba on the ‘Malweiber’ - Female Artists of German Modernism
Description
To learn more about Silvia Wistuba and her work, please visit here and here.
Cover Image: Wistuba's adaptation of work by artist Julie Wolfthorn for the cover of Jugend magazine (1898).
Show Notes
0:00 Silvia Wistuba on equality of artists
1:15 Wistuba’s background
2:30 Gabriele Münter
4:30 ‘Malweiber’ meaning
6:00 timeframe of ‘Malweiber’ labeling – 1871-1918
8:30 research process
12:00 regional approach to research
15:00 twelve female artists focused on in research
16:30 finding that art is not gendered
18:15 Charlotte Corinth
21:30 Dora Hitz
22:40 Maria Slavona
24:25 Augusta von Zitzewitz
25:20 Erma Bossi
26:25 Elisabeth Epstein
27:23 Maria Franck-Marc
30:30 Gabriele Münter
32:25 Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke
34:25 Ida Gerhardi
36:30 Fifi Kreutzer
37:55 Olga Openheimer
40:30 range of resources
43:30 Blue Rider Group
45:30 Gabriele Münter’s donation to Lenbachhaus (Munich)
49:00 Museum Art of the Lost Generation
51:30 current relevance
53:30 need for discourse on art’s social context
55:08 social justice for artists of the past
55:20 defining justice as respect shown to all
56:25 feedback
58:10 challenging the sexist paradigm that art is gendered
59:40 plans to convert thesis into book
1:00:15 derogatory nature of term ‘Malweiber’
1:01:45 cover image inspired by Julie Wolfthorn’s image
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Music by Toulme.
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