![]() ![]() There she completed her master’s studies as one of the school’s first female attendees. After this initial education she was admitted to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Her aunt Elsa Birnbaum ran a private painting school which allowed Lotte to take up painting and drawing at a young age. Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) was born in East Prussia to a bourgeois family. Lotte Laserstein Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski, Lotte Laserstein painting Evening over Potsdam, 1930. In her art Koller-Pinell mostly focused on still life, genre, and portraits (one would say, typically feminine genres). This, however, led to her ostracism in the art world she was never really accepted among her colleagues because she was a woman and because she was rich. In fact, her artistic freedom was tolerated by the Jewish community only because of her high social status. Although she was professionally successful and appreciated by critics, too often she was labeled as “the talented wife of a prominent husband” (Gütersloh 1934), who was a physician. Koller-Pinell was especially close to Klimt (which is also visible in her style) and exhibited with the Secession. Starting in 1903, the family became involved in the activities of the artistic groups Wiener Werkstätte and Secession, inviting many members of both groups to their house. Dorotheum.Īgainst her parents’ will she married a Catholic, Hugo Koller, with whom she had two children, raised as Christians (Koller-Pinell did not convert). Broncia Koller-Pinell, Woman with Blue Headscarf, 1934. However, her first successful exhibition took place in 1892 at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. After spending five years in Munich, in 1888 she showed her works at the International Art Exhibition in Vienna. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).īroncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934) was a painter born in Sanok in Galicia to orthodox Jewish parents who let her begin private sculpture studies at the age of 18. Broncia Koller-Pinell Broncia Koller-Pinell, c. Therefore, today we will show you three brilliant but erased women artists of the Vienna secession and New Objectivity movement who nowadays are still often omitted. In many sectors and environments women are still discriminated against, among them the art world. ![]() Happy Women’s History Month to all women and men (in the end men should celebrate with us)! I hope that with each passing year the world becomes a more hospitable place for all women and that soon we will be able to claim equality regardless of sex. ![]()
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