Kerry Wallach

Defiance | Jewish Museum Berlin Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era: exhibition

I highly recommend visiting the amazing new exhibition at Jüdisches Museum Berlin - DEFIANCE: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era (WIDERSTÄNDE: Jüdische Designerinnen der Moderne), open now through Nov. 23 @jmberlin.bsky.social
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Painting featuring the head and shoulders of two white wonen, one leaning in to the other while the first subject, in a green turban style hat, lookings directly outwards, the figure to the right gazes adoringly at the other

The Green Turban, 1927 by Polish Art Deco painter Tamara De Lempicka #WomensArt

Painting of a white woman looking thoughtful facing forwards with chin resting on her hans in an interior with flowers and low light

German expressionist painter Gabriele Münter, Meditation, 1917 #womensart

Photo featuring a round silver coloured metal teapot with small spout and arched handle

Tea pot by Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #womensart

Two rows of 4 book jackets each. All of the books are about a woman artist or a group of women artists.

#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q1, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs and exhibition catalogs, as well as children's books: artherstory.net/new-books-ab...

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Hannah Höch and her Dada puppets, 1920 #womensart

Painting in vivid colours of the head and shoulders of a white young woman with blonde hair tied back and in a pinkish top facing slight right, the backdrop has a floral pattern on white

Finnish woman, 1907 by Ukrainian-French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay #WomensArt

Stylised painting featuring a seated older white woman in black hat orange jacket and patterned blue skirt holding a flower stem and in front of rows of flowering plants in a garden setting

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Old Woman in the garden, 1906 German Expressionist painter #WomensArt

Painting of a landscape and small village in early morning light with trees on a slope in the foreground, buildings with red roofs and then mountains in the distance

Murnau, 1908 by Gabriele Münter, German Expressionist painter #WomensArt

Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs #WomensArt

Painting of a white woman in a white dress and pink jacket reclining on a hillside overlooking a green valley of trees and fields and with the sea on the horizon

Gabriele Münter, Landscape by the Sea, 1919 #womensart

Portrait in monochrome of the upper half of a young white woman facing right and looking outwards wearing a jacket and with hair tied back and with one hand visible holding her jacket

Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait, 1889, pen and black ink, German artist #WomensArt

WOMENSART Blog:

Jeanne Mammen & the Women of Berlin’s Cabaret
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Hannah Höch,
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WomensArt blog:
German Expressionist Painter Gabrielle Münter
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Painting of a mountainous landscape with a lake, on the shore in the foreground three figures push a rowing boat into the water while two more figures watch, two sailing boats are on the lake, above the rocky mountains a golden full moon rises

Expressionist painter Marianne Werefkin, The big moon, 1923 #WomensArt

Painted portrait of a standing white woman with dark hair in black jacket trousers and white shirt facing forwards with one foot on a higher step and one hand in her pocket

Portrait of the Duchess of La Salle, 1925 by Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka
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Ten doctoral scholarships on German-Jewish history and culture to be awarded in the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2025/26

For more information including application details, please visit: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship

Illustration: Eine elegant gekleidete Frau führt vor stilisierter Stadtkulisse einen Windhund spazieren. Sie wird beobachtet von einem Mann im Anzug mit Hut.

Dodo, geb. Dörte Clara Wolff (1907-1998), war erfolgreiche Illustratorin im Berlin der 1930er Jahre. Wegen ihrer jüdischen Abstimmung wurde sie aus dem Berufsleben gedrängt und emigrierte 1936 mit ihren Kindern nach London, wo sie Kinderbücher und Grußkarten illustrierte. Hier „Der Windhund“, 1929.

Selbstportrait zeigt eine Frau mit dunklem Haar im weißen Kittel vor einem roten Vorhang. In der Hand hält sie einen Pinsel, dahinter eine Palette. Nachweis von Wiki commons folgt.

Am 18. Februar 1882 wurde Malva Schalek in Prag geboren. Sie studierte Malerei in München, nahm in Wien Unterricht bei Marie Rosenthal-Hatschek. Bei ihrer Flucht 1938 in die Tschechoslowakei musste sie ihre Bilder in ihrem Wiener Atelier zurücklassen. In Theresienstadt porträtierte sie den Alltag.
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Lotte Laserstein,
Reclining Girl on Blue c.1931 #WomensArt

An A-Z of 1,000 women artists represented on Art UK: Aaerens to Ayrton | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

Women artists have been overlooked throughout history.

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists, giving you a place to start exploring their work. #WomensHistoryMonth

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'Bubbles' by Amy B. Atkinson (1859–1916) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

Painting featuring a white woman with tired and sad expression, upper half to the left, holdind a baby wrapped in a white sheet, the figure stands in a dark street under dark clouds

Escape,1940 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, painted just after the artist arrived in the US and it evokes the hardships of war in Europe #WomensArt

Photo of a white-cream plate with momimal art deco design including thin green and black half circle lines and green circles

Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart

Interdisciplinary Studies Department Hosts Antisemitism Lecture 500 Days After Oct. 7 Attack By Nathaniel Swindell, Staff Writer The interdisciplinary studies department held a lecture and Q&A on antisemitism on Tuesday, Feb. 18 — exactly 500 days after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by H…

“It is impossible to study Jewish history without studying antisemitism."

Painting of a stylised rural scene with agricultural workers working in fields on a hillside

Anthill, c.1916 by Expressionist painter Marianne von Werefkin #womensart

Remembering the life of Jewish artist, Holocaust victim Rahel Szalit Kerry Wallach has spent years working to resurrect the life story and works of Jewish artist Rahel Szalit, shedding light on the profound impact of Szalit’s previously unknown art.

I was honored to give a distinguished lecture about Jewish artist Rahel Szalit at UT Knoxville on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many thanks to @helenesinnreich.bsky.social for the invitation. @utknoxville.bsky.social

Two women in the garden with fountain

Two women in the garden with fountain https://www.wikiart.org/en/paula-modersohn-becker/two-women-in-the-garden-with-fountain-1

‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos

"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...