Jugendstil women and the making of modern design

Abstract

"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. This book offers a new interpretation of this vibrant period, advocating women as an integral part of the emergence, dissemination and reception of Jugendstil and questioning the deeply gendered histories of this key period in modern art, architecture and design"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction : A new style for a new age? -- Maker : Margarethe von Brauchitsch and the United Workshops -- Activists : the Elvira Photography Studio and Munich feminist politics -- Students : education women at the Debschitz School -- Patron : fashionable taste at Elsa Bruckmann's salon -- Reformers : dressing the part.