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Symphonie in Schwarz by Andreas Dehmer
£21.00
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9783422801158
Published:
18 Aug 2023
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
120 pages
Dimensions:
210x130x13mm
Weight:
0.225kgs
Author:
In 1904, Saxon artist Oskar Zwintscher painted the portrait of a lady smoking a cigarette. Today, the work has cult status at the Albertinum in Dresden. Her hair loose, a burning cigarette held casually in her hand, the sitter in a black reform dress is sitting in front of a black curtain. But who is behind the young woman who looks out of the picture so confidently? Andreas Dehmer and Susanna Partsch embark on a fascinating search for clues to the identity of the lady smoking. They find emancipated women who earned their living as artists, actors or writers, preferred reform dress to the corset, and regarded smoking as a symbol of independence. They follow them to metropolises like Berlin, Dresden or Munich, where they lived as part of the bohemian scene. A captivating picture of the way art and life intertwined around 1900 emerges in this search for the unknown.
1904 schuf der sächsische Künstler Oskar Zwintscher das Bildnis einer Dame mit Zigarette. Heute besitzt das Gemälde im Dresdner Albertinum Kultstatus. Mit offenen Haaren, eine brennende Zigarette locker in der Hand, sitzt die Dargestellte im schwarzen Reformkleid vor einem schwarzen Vorhang. Doch wer verbirgt sich hinter der jungen Frau, die so selbstbewusst aus dem Bild schaut?
Andreas Dehmer und Susanna Partsch begeben sich anhand der Frage nach der Identität der rauchenden Dame auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche. Sie finden emanzipierte Frauen, die als Künstlerinnen, Schauspielerinnen oder Schriftstellerinnen ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienten, das Reformkleid dem Korsett vorzogen und das Rauchen als Symbol der Unabhängigkeit begriffen. Sie folgen ihnen in Metropolen wie Berlin, Dresden oder München, wo sie als Teil der Bohème lebten. Auf der Suche nach der Unbekannten entsteht so ein fesselndes Bild der Verschränkung von Kunst und Leben um 1900.
About the Author: Andreas Dehmer, Doktor der Kunstgeschichte, Autor und Kurator, arbeitet an den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Für das Albertinum war er an grundlegenden Ausstellungen beteiligt (u.a. Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden; Ägyptenreisen von Max Slevogt und Paul Klee; Italienbilder des 19. Jahrhunderts). Zuletzt kuratierte er mit Birgit Dalbajewa eine viel beachtete Schau über Oskar Zwintscher in der Kunst um 1900. Er gilt als Experte für das Fin de Siècle, zu seinen jüngsten Publikationen zählt „Aux morts", ein Standardwerk über Grabskulptur in Dresden zwischen 1880 und 1930. Susanna Partsch ist promovierte Kunsthistorikerin und lebt seit 1985 als freie Autorin in München. Zu ihren zahlreichen Überblickswerken und Monographien über Kunst zählen auch Bücher über Kunstdiebstahl und Kunstfälschung. Für ihr Buch "Haus der Kunst" bei Hanser wurde sie 1998 mit dem Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis ausgezeichnet, drei weitere wurden nominiert, u.a. 2019 "Schau mir in die Auge, Dürer" (C.H. Beck). 2023 erschien ihre Biografie über Artemisia Gentileschi im Molden Verlag in Wien.
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