Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917. Leicester Museums & Galleries. © DACS 2022
Currently on view at the Royal Academy of Arts, Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to the pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin. In this talk Dorothy Price, lead curator and professor at the Courtauld, reveals how this exhibition is a timely introduction to the innovative works of these ground-breaking artists.
Subjects such as self-portraiture, still-life, the female body, childhood, landscape and urban scenes can be seen through their perspectives. Less familiar than their male counterparts such as Vassily Kandinsky, these women were no less central to the development of radical new approaches to art in Europe.
Making Modernism explores the individuality of each artist, the strong affinities between them and the themes of identity, representation and belonging – all powerfully relevant today.
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This is an online event hosted on Zoom which can be watched live, or on-demand for three weeks afterwards. You will receive your link to access the event in your email confirmation and the on-demand link after the event ends.