Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modern Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism.
The book centers on three main erasures—the erasure of Jewish artists and critics; erasures relating to gender and sexual identification; and erasures of other marginalized figures and movements. Restoring missing elements to the story of the visual arts in early twentieth-century Vienna, authors investigate issues of gender, race, ethnic and sexual identity, and political affiliation. Both well-studied artists and organizations—such as the Secession and the Austrian Werkbund, and iconic figures such as Klimt and Hoffmann—are explored, as are lesser known figures and movements. The book’s thought-provoking chapters expand the chronological contours and canon of artists surrounding Viennese Modernism to offer original, nuanced, and rich readings of individual works, while offering a more diverse portrait of the period from 1890, through World War II and into the present. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history, design history, architectural history, and European studies.
Author(s): Megan Brandow-Faller, Laura Morowitz
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 278
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1 Beyond Amnesia: Jewish Artists, Patrons and Critics
1 Art in Vienna 1900, or the Return of the Repressed
2 Erasing “Jewish Traces”: Max Oppenheimer and the Crux of Art Historiography
3 “Our Great Josef Hoffmann”: Undoing the Austrian Profile of a Celebrated Architect
4 The Emigration of Egon Schiele: Jewish Refugees and Austrian Modernism in New York
5 As if They Were Never There: Vienna’s Cityscape and the Ethnic Cleansing of Memory
PART 2 Beyond the “Superstars”: Gendered Erasures
6 Guests or Members? Women Artists in the Circle of Egon Schiele
7 Across Stage, Page and Dance Floor: Asserting the Dynamic Female Body in Klien’s Kineticism
8 The Birth of Painting from the Spirit of the Gingerbread: Anna Lesznai’s Hungarian Exotic in 1920s Vienna
9 Who Knows BEST? Gendered Views of Interwar Design Reform and Wiener Wohnkultur
10 From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America: Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska and the Cult of Creativity
PART 3 Beyond Klimt: Erasures of Understudied Movements/Artists/Connections
11 Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s “Expectation and
Fulfillment” in the Palais Stoclet
12 Good Art, Bad Art: The Culture Wars of Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Their Legacy
13 Robert Örley and the Other Wiener Moderne
14 Josephine Baker in 1920s Vienna: Modernism, Blackness and Popular Culture
15 On Erasures in Modern Architecture: Catholic “Modernism” and the Historiography of Church Building Between the Wars
PART 4 Epilogue: Past Erasures, Present Aims: The VBKÖ in 2022
16 Speaking with Gaps and Silences in the Vereinigung bildender
Künstlerinnen* Österreichs (Association of Austrian Wom*n
Artists): Introduction and Interview
Index
