Elizabeth Otto

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Elizabeth Otto (* 1970 in Mount Kisco ) is an American art historian , university professor and non-fiction author . Among other things, she researches the artistic career of women at the Bauhaus .

Life

Elizabeth Otto studied art history at Oberlin College (degree: Bachelor of Arts ) and at Queen's University (degree: Master of Arts ). Elizabeth Otto completed her academic training as a cultural historian in 2003 at the University of Michigan with a dissertation on photomontage and cultural criticism in the Weimar Republic .

Elizabeth Otto subsequently dealt with European and US-American art from the 19th century to the present day as well as with the history of photography, film and media culture. As part of her research, she specialized in the work of women at the Bauhaus. In numerous publications, she shed light on the biographies of Bauhaus artists, especially Marianne Brandt .

She is director of the Humanities Institute and is professor of modern and contemporary art history and visual studies at the University at Buffalo . In Germany she worked temporarily as a guest lecturer, among other things at the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Munich with exile research. On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Bauhaus, she takes part as a speaker in specialist colloquia and published several publications in 2019, including accompanying the exhibition 4 Bauhaus girls at the Angermuseum in Erfurt .

Publications (selection)

  • Marie Laurencin and the gendering of Cubism, 1904-1914 , diploma thesis, 1997
  • Figuring gender: photomontage and cultural critique in Germany's Weimar Republic , Dissertation (PhD), University of Michigan, 2003
  • Speed, speed! Bauhaus photomontages by Marianne Brandt , Jovis, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3936314557 .
  • The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s , (Ed., With Vanessa Rocco), 2011
  • "The mountain calls": Landscapes of exile in Marianne Brandt's painting and photography during the National Socialist era , 2012
  • Passages of Exile , (Ed., With Burcu Dogramaci), 2017,
  • Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School , 2019 (Ed., With Patrick Rösler)
  • 4 "Bauhaus girls": Gertrud Arndt. Marianne Brandt. Margarete Heymann. Margaretha Reichardt , 2019 (Eds., With Kai Uwe Schierz, Patrick Rösler, Miriam Krautwurst), ISBN 978-3954984596 .
  • Bauhaus women: a global perspective , 2019 (with Patrick Rösler)
  • Women at the Bauhaus: Pioneering Artists of Modernism , 2019 (with Patrick Rösler, Birgit van der Avoort), ISBN 978-3957282309 .
  • Art and resistance in Germany , 2019 (Ed., With Deborah Ascher Barnstone)
  • Haunted Bauhaus. Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics , 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Elizabeth Otto. In: UB Graduate Group for German & Austrian Studies. November 23, 2011, accessed April 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Elizabeth Otto, Ph.D. - Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS) - LMU Munich. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Otto: Lecture on women at the Bauhaus. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ XIV. International Bauhaus Colloquium. Retrieved April 29, 2019 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Otto, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian, university lecturer, and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Kisco