1. History

2. Literature

3. References

4. External links

The Association of Berlin Women Artists was established in 1867. It is the oldest association of female visual artists in Germany still in existence. It maintains the Archive Association of Berlin Women Artists which publishes association announcements and catalogues, and every two years awards the Marianne von Werefkin Prize to contemporary female artists. It cultivates and promotes current developments of contemporary female artists. The 2007 prizewinner was the sculptor Paloma Varga Weisz.

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

The association's cooperation partner is the Berlinische Galerie National Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture. With their help, a comprehensive documentation of the members and sponsors of the association was produced in 1992 for the 125th anniversary of the association, which was published as an artist encyclopedia (see literature).^[1]

History

The Association of Berlin Women Artists emerged from the Association of Berlin Female Artists and Art Friends. Since its foundation in 1867 by Marie Remy, Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke, Rosa Petzel and Clara Heinke (1825-1892), this association has been 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 were not legally capable, so it required male founding members, who were bound to the association by honorary membership, without being full members. The art lovers ensured that the association was anchored in the middle classes and thus not least provided a financial basis. Some of the art lovers also held important positions in the management of the association. Hedwig Weiß was a member of the board for a time. The association regularly held art exhibitions. In 1919, at the beginning of the Weimar Republic, in which the rights of women were strengthened, the association changed its name to Verein der Künstlerinnen zu Berlin.

Since 1868, the Association of Female Artists and Art Friends in Berlin had its own art school at Askanische Platz 7, which from 1871 also included a "drawing and painting school" with an associated "drawing teacher's seminar". In the beginning, the teaching was carried out by renowned academy professors.^[1]

Literature

• Dieter Fuhrmann (Hrsg.): Profession ohne Tradition. 125 Jahre Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, ein Forschungs- und Ausstellungsprojekt der Berlinischen Galerie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen [Ausstellungskatalog „Profession ohne Tradition, 125 Jahre Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen“, 11. September bis 1. November 1992]. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-410-0.
• Käthe, Paula und der ganze Rest. Ein Nachschlagewerk (Künstlerinnenlexikon). Hrsg. vom Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen e. V. in Zusammenarbeit mit der Berlinischen Galerie. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9.
• Bernd Fäthke: Spurensicherung für die Blaue Reiterin in Litauen (= Mitteilung des Vereins der Berliner Künstlerinnen e. V. Nr. 6). Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9802288-7-8.
• Bernd Fäthke: Die „Blaue Reiterin“. Mit Jawlensky in Ahrenshoop, Prerow und Zingst. „Blaue Reiter“ in München, Murnau und Berlin (= Mitteilung des Vereins der Berliner Künstlerinnen e. V. Nr. 8). Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926460-64-4.

References

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• E J Pratt Library
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• E.J. Reed
• E.J. Robeson, Jr.
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• E. J. Rowland
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• E.J. Roye
• EJ Russell Elementary School
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• E. J. Sand Public School
• E J Scovell
• EJ Scovell
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• E.J. Sharpe
• EJSM
• E.J. Smith
• EJSP
• EJSTAN*
• E. J. Stark
• EJ Stewart