The panel will discuss what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, one hundred years after the Republic鈥檚 formation.
Speakers will explore where art-historical research on Weimar might be heading and what, if any, the continued resonances of art made during this era might be, well beyond the immediacy of its origins in the 1920s and early 30s Germany. In light of the new scholarship featured in this special issue of Art History, which foregrounds critical race, material cultural analysis, gender, queer and disability studies, we examine how a focus on art鈥揾istorical margins 鈥 what we refer to as Weimar鈥檚 鈥榦thers鈥 鈥 may either change our thinking about what the Republic was, or perhaps confirm the dominant narratives of decadent excess, moral decay and imminent political danger that have so long defined this period.
Dr Shulamith Behr is Honorary Research Fellow at 91自拍. She specializes in German Expressionism and has published widely on issues of cultural identity, politics and gender.听She was the curator and contributor to the catalogue of the exhibition听Gabriele M眉nter: The 91自拍 for Expression, 1906-1917,听held at The 91自拍 Gallery (23 June 鈥 11 September 2005), and is finalising an in-depth study of听Women听Expressionists and the Public Sphere: From Empire to Emancipation.听Her most recent publication on art and exile can be found in the chapter, 鈥淟udwig Meidner鈥檚 cycle听Leiden der Juden in Polen听(1942-45) and Holocaust Knowledge: Towards a Methodology鈥 in听Ludwig Meidner: Expressionismus, Ekstase, Exil(J眉disches Museum Frankfurt am Main,听2018).
Dr Nina L眉bbren is a Principal Lecturer in the Creative School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.听听She is the author of听Rural Artists鈥 Colonies in Europe, 1870-1910(Manchester University Press, 2001); and the co-editor of听Visual Culture and Tourism听(Berg, 2003) and听Painting and Narrative in France听(Ashgate/ Routledge, 2016).听听She is also the author of articles and chapters on German sculpture (the 鈥Weimar鈥檚 Others鈥听issue of听Art History, 2019;听The Art of War, eds D. Ascher Barnstone and B. McCloskey, Peter Lang, 2017);听Art and Resistance in Germany, eds D. Ascher Barnstone and E. Otto, Bloomsbury, 2018;听Sculpture and the Decorative, eds I. Hart and C. Jones, 2019;听Art History, Sept. 2019).听听She is currently completing two books: one on German sculpture, 1910-1945, and the other on visual narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.
Professor Dorothy Price is Editor of Art History the journal of the Association for Art History and lectures in the History of Art Department at the University of Bristol. She specialises in German art, in particular Expressionism and Weimar visual culture, Black British Art, feminism, gender and critical race art history. She is author and editor of numerous books, articles and exhibition essays including the monographs Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (2003) and After Dada: Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde (2013). She has also curated a number of exhibitions including most recently Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Maing Thing at The Lowry, Salford in 2018. Amongst other things, she is currently working with the artist Sonia Boyce MBE RA on a special issue of Art History arising from Boyce鈥檚 AHRC-funded Black Artists and Modernism project.
Dr. Camilla Smith is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham, where she specialises in early twentieth-century German art and visual culture. Her articles on Weimar culture have appeared in the journals Art History, Oxford Art Journal, New German Critique and The German Quarterly. She has contributed essays in catalogues for exhibitions held in Berlin, London, Vienna and W眉rzburg. Forthcoming essays appear in conjunction with the exhibitions 鈥榃olfgang Gurlitt Zauberprinz Kunsth盲ndler 颅鈥 Sammler鈥 (4 October 2019 鈥 19 January 2020) held at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz and 鈥業nto the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art鈥 (4 October 2019 鈥 19 January 2020) organised by the Barbican Art Gallery, London. She has been awarded fellowships in Germany and the United States to undertake research. Her monograph on the artist Jeanne Mammen is forthcoming. She is currently working on a book-length project on German erotic visual cultures.
Organised by Dr Robin Schuldenfrei (The 91自拍)听