Dora Hitz Wechselspiele von Weiblichkeit und Raum

Aus dem Dickicht der Farbe: das Werk von Dora Hitz neu entdecktWie sich die Rolle von Frauen um 1900 in Hitz' Bildern widerspiegelt100. Todestag der Künstlerin am 20. November 2024 Dora Hitz (1853-1924) gilt als eine maßgebliche Vertreterin der Moderne in Berlin um 1900. Trotzdem gerieten Werk und Biografie nach ihrem Tod in Vergessenheit. Rahel Schrohe stellt die signifikante Bedeutung der Künstlerin heraus, die in ihren Bildern die Position bürgerlicher Frauen reflektierte.

Women artists fall into oblivion, no matter how influential and style-defining they were in their time. This was also the case with Dora Hitz (18531924), who represented modern painting in Berlin around 1900, stylistically and thematically. Rahel Schrohe shows why it is worth rediscovering the artist's work and opens up a completely new perspective on Hitz: she examines her work with a focus on the relationship between femininity and space. Throughout her life, Hitz was regarded as a painter of women, as she created numerous pictures of mothers with their children and portrayed women in Berlin society. How did Hitz reflect the position of middle-class women around 1900 and the contemporary discourses on femininity in her paintings? And to what extent did she utilise her social possibilities to take a critical look at women's limited scope for action?

Autorentext
Rahel Schrohe ist Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin in Berlin und bereitet derzeit eine Ausstellung zu Dora Hitz in der Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee vor. Zuvor leitete sie den Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam und arbeitete im kuratorischen Team der Fondation Beyeler in Basel