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Lotte Laserstein : face to face

Title

Lotte Laserstein : face to face / edited by Alexander Eiling and Elena Schroll.

Publication

Munich : Prestel Verlag, [2018]
©2018

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Description

189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits (some color); 29 cm

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).

Alternative Title

Face to face

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185).

Exhibitions (note)

Exhibited: "Lotte Laserstein", Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 19 September 2018 - 17 March 2019; Berlinische Galerie, 5 April - 12 August 2019.

Contents

Foreword / Philipp Demandt -- 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.

Call Number

JQF 19-452

ISBN

9783791358239
3791358235
9783941399839
3941399837

OCLC

1051763394

Title

Lotte Laserstein : face to face / edited by Alexander Eiling and Elena Schroll.

Publisher

Munich : Prestel Verlag, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185).

Exhibitions

Exhibited: "Lotte Laserstein", Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 19 September 2018 - 17 March 2019; Berlinische Galerie, 5 April - 12 August 2019.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Eiling, Alexander B., editor, writer of added commentary.

Schroll, Elena, editor, writer of added commentary.

Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, host institution.

Berlinische Galerie, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-452

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