Irma Stern: A Modern Artist Between Berlin and Cape Town - Rilegato

 
9783777445298: Irma Stern: A Modern Artist Between Berlin and Cape Town

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In the art of Irma Stern, motifs from her South African homeland meet the expressionism of the Brücke artists. In the interwar period she was celebrated in Berlin for her “exotic” paintings, and later became a prominent artist in South Africa. This richly illustrated volume focuses on her highly expressive portraits and addresses questions regarding the contexts in which the works were created and how they are seen today.

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Lisa Hörstmann wrote her doctorate on South African settler primitivism. She is a research assistant at the Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Moderne. Lisa Marei Schmidt is director of the Brücke Museum Berlin.

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In the art of Irma Stern, motifs from her South African homeland meet the expressionism of the Brücke artists. In the interwar period she was celebrated in Berlin for her “exotic” paintings, and later became a prominent artist in South Africa. This richly illustrated volume focuses on her highly expressive portraits and addresses questions regarding the contexts in which the works were created and how they are seen today.

The German–South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) was a well-known figure in

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