Association of Berlin Women Artists

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The Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V. is the oldest association of female visual artists in Germany that still exists today . He maintains the Archive Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V., publishes association news and catalogs and awards the “ Marianne Werefkin Prize ” to contemporary artists every two years . It thus cultivates the cultural memory and promotes the current developments of contemporary female artists. The 2007 award winner was the sculptor Paloma Varga Weisz .

The association archive is used, among other things, as a source of dissertations , master's and diploma theses on individual artists and the position of women artists in training and society. Data from the archive was used for works on Charlotte Berend-Corinth , Käthe Kollwitz , Jeanne Mammen , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Marg Moll , Elisabet Ney , Harriet von Rathlef-Keilmann and Gertraud Rostosky . The association archive has been transferred to the archive of the Academy of Arts (Department of Fine Arts) by contract since November 1st, 2012 .

The association's cooperation partner is the Berlinische Galerie State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture . With their help, an extensive documentation about the members and supporters of the association could be created in 1992 for the 125th anniversary of the association, which was published as an artist lexicon (see literature ).

history

Building of the Victoria Lyceum and the drawing and painting school (garden house Potsdamer Str. 39) Berlin
Memorial plaque on the house, Potsdamer Strasse 98a, in Berlin-Tiergarten
1910–1911 built atelier of the Association of Berlin Artists at 71 Schöneberger Ufer

The Association of Women Artists in Berlin emerged from the Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin . Since it was founded in 1867 by Marie Remy , Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke , Rosa Petzel and Clara Heinke (1825-1892), this association was oriented towards the entire German-speaking area and neighboring countries. This is how Marie Wiegmann from Düsseldorf , for example, became a member of the association. In 1867 women in the German Reich had no legal capacity , therefore male founding members were required, who were bound by honorary membership to the association without being full members. The art lovers secured the association's anchoring in the middle class and, last but not least, a financial basis. Some of the art lovers also held important positions in the association's management. So part Hedwig White temporarily on the board. The association regularly held art exhibitions. In 1919, at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , when women's rights were strengthened, the association was renamed the Association of Women Artists in Berlin .

The Association of Berlin Artists and Art Friends had had its own art school at Askanischer Platz 7 since 1868 , which from 1871 also included a "drawing and painting school" with an attached "drawing teacher seminar". Initially, teaching is given by renowned academy professors. In 1893 the association, together with the Victoria Lyceum for higher education for women, acquired a building for the drawing and painting school at Potsdamer Straße 39 (today 98a). As the number of pupils increased, the association moved into a specially built house on Schöneberger Ufer 38 (today 71).

Directors

  • 1871: Antonie Eichler
  • 1892: Margarete Hoenerbach
  • 1909: Hildegard Lehnert
  • 1929: Alice Michaelis
  • 1933: Elisabeth von Oertzen (1887–1938), painter, graphic artist

Teachers

students

literature

  • Dieter Fuhrmann (Ed.): Profession without tradition. 125 Years Association of Berlin Women Artists, a research and exhibition project of the Berlinische Galerie in collaboration with the Association of Berlin Women Artists [exhibition catalog “Profession without tradition, 125 years Association of Berlin women artists”, September 11 to November 1, 1992]. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-410-0 .
  • Käthe, Paula and all the rest . A reference work (female artist lexicon). Edited by the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen e. V. in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 .
  • Bernd Fäthke: Securing evidence for the Blue Rider in Lithuania (= communication from the Association of Berlin Artists, No. 6). Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9802288-7-8 .
  • Bernd Fäthke: The “Blue Rider”. With Jawlensky in Ahrenshoop, Prerow and Zingst. “Blue Riders” in Munich, Murnau and Berlin (= notification from the Association of Berlin Artists, No. 8). Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926460-64-4 .

Web links

Commons : Association of Berlin women artists  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V., Club Chronicle: Drawing & Painting School ( Memento from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: vdbk1867.de, accessed on August 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ see also Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen ; not to be confused with the writer Elisabeth von Oertzen