Uncompromisingly modern – the Dutch Expressionist artist Jacoba van Heemskerck
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Jacoba van Heemskerck
Truly Modern
In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her expressive subjects, including landscapes, townscapes and harbour scenes, are characterised by luminosity and increasing transparency, by rhythmical compositions of the pictorial space, black contours and an intensive use of colour.
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After her artistic beginnings in the circle around Mondrian and elsewhere, Jacoba van Heemskerck belonged to the centre of the avant-garde movement emanating from the “Sturm” of Herwarth Walden in Berlin – the gallerist and publisher who made artists like Marc, Kandinsky and Jawlensky famous. Her work is shaped by her orientation towards Anthroposophy, which bears witness to her interest in the elemental effect of light and colour on the viewer. Her creative work is highly topical today thanks to her understanding of nature and the cosmos as a world viewed as a whole.
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Der sorgfältig und informativ gestaltete Bildband feiert die Wiederentdeckung einer beeindruckenden Künstlerin.
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Der Band bietet die Chance, das Werk der Avantgardistin ausführlich kennenzulernen.
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In einer Zeit, als Frauen weder Akademien besuchen noch ohne die Erlaubnis ihres Gatten ausstellen durften, musste sie sich als ambitionierte und offen lesbisch lebende Künstlerin durchbeißen. Sie hatte in Herwarth Waldens „Sturm“-Galerie und der dazugehörigen Bewegung großen Erfolg, wurde nach ihrem Tod aber vollständig aus den Analen dieser wilden Epoche getilgt.
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Contributions by L. Fink, A. Lorenz, H. Mund, J. van Paaschen, L. Stamps
160 pages, 185 colour illustrations22 x 26 cm, softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3699-9
Keywords
Expressionism, 19th century, 20th century, avant-garde, painting, women in art, modernism, anthroposophy
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