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Zusatztext In this groundbreaking book, Sabine Wieber offers a much-needed corrective to male-centered narratives of Jugendstil. In detailed case studies that elaborate women’s contributions as designers, makers, teachers, patrons, activists and salonnierès to a distinctly German variant of Art Nouveau, she both illuminates the important and very diverse roles that women played in the inception of this modern style and demonstrates the varied ways in which they used it to secure a place of increased personal, socio-economic and political power in the late German Empire. Historically and geographically specific to turn-of-the-century Munich, Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design is a must-read revisionist history of modernism that does not simply supplement the narrative with women but questions the underlying structures of its historiography. Informationen zum Autor Sabine Wieber is a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, UK. Klappentext Jugendstil, that is Germany's distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, architecture and design. Recent exhibitions and publications across the world explored Jugendstil's key protagonists and artistic centres to firmly anchor their activities within the trajectories of German modernism. Women, however, continue to be largely absent from these revisionist accounts. Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design argues that women in fact actively participated in the cultural and socio-economic exchanges that generated German design responses to European modernity. By drawing on previously unpublished archival material and a series of original case studies including Elsa Bruckmann's Munich salon, the Photo Studio Elvira and the Debschitz School, the book explores women's important contributions to modern German culture as collectors, consumers, critics, designers, educators, and patrons.This book offers a new interpretation of this vibrant period by considering diverse manifestations of historical female agency that pushed against historically entrenched conventions and gender roles. The book's rigorous approach reshapes Jugendstil historiography by positing women's lived experiences against dominant ideologies that emerged at this precise moment. In short, the book advocates women as an integral part of the emergence, dissemination and reception of Jugendstil and questions the deeply gendered histories of this key period in modern art, architecture and design. Vorwort Examines the diverse cultural contributions of women to the production, dissemination and consumption of 'Jugendstil' (German art nouveau) art and design between 1897 and 1918. Zusammenfassung Jugendstil, that is Germany’s distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, architecture and design. Recent exhibitions and publications across the world explored Jugendstil’s key protagonists and artistic centres to firmly anchor their activities within the trajectories of German modernism. Women, however, continue to be largely absent from these revisionist accounts. Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design argues that women in fact actively participated in the cultural and socio-economic exchanges that generated German design responses to European modernity. By drawing on previously unpublished archival material and a series of original case studies including Elsa Bruckmann's Munich salon, the Photo Studio Elvira and the Debschitz School, the book explores women’s important contributions to modern German culture as collectors, consumers, critics, designers, educators, and patrons.This book offers a new interpretation of this vibrant period by considering diverse manifestations of historical female agency that pushed against historically entrenched conventions and gender r...
