LIKE A WHIRLWIND – Die Genderplays von Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg 14. June 2024 — 25. August 2024 at f³ – freiraum für fotografie, Waldemarstraße 17, 10179 Berlin, Germany
Category: 19th Century Artists
Video (2:56): A brief introduction to Alice Austen (1866 – 1952). A groundbreaking queer photographer from Victorian-era New York.
Video (3:31): Kristin Spangenberg talks about a new acquisition by the Cincinnati Art Museum: Four Bathers, a print by Maud Hunt Squire. And she tells about lesbian artist duo and partners in life Maud Hunt Squire (1873–1954) and Ethel Mars (1876-1959).
The Children of Our Town. A childrens’ book by artists Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire. Verses by Carolyn Wells.
New York, ca. 1902.
Photos by Bolette Berg (1872–1944) from the box labeled ‘private’ with glas negatives of the couple Marie Høeg (1866–1949) and Bolette Berg. The images are from ca. 1895-1903 all taken in their studio.
Video (53:35): a podcast about the life of sculptor and lesbian Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). Harriet Hosmer was known in her day as a ‘Lady Sculptor’, an ‘Emancipated Woman’, and as a leading member of ‘The White Marmorean Flock’.
Video (7:45): A short film by Den Hirschsprungske Samling in Copenhagen about lesbian painters Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt. The exhibition ‘MARIE ❤ EMILIE. Queering the Collection’ at Den Hirschsprungske Samling in Copenhagen, Denmark runs through January 9, 2022.
Self Portrait (1885) by Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940) , an American impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. Her life companion was fellow artist Gabrielle de Veaux Clements.
Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, an American painter, print maker, and muralist. Drawing by her companion Ellen Day Hale.
French painter Jeanne Sarah Nathalie Micas (1824-1889) lived with her partner, painter Rosa Bonheur, for over 40 years.
American lesbian and painter Anna Klumpke (1856-1842) in her studio ca. 1885-90. Courtesy of the Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
All her life French painter Rosa Bonheur’s favorite subject was animals. She was a lesbian.
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) self-portraits.
Louise Abbéma painted a portrait of lesbian actress Sarah Bernhardt, her lifelong friend. She never married which has led to the general assumption that she was a lesbian too.
Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864-1939) was an Australian painter and closeted lesbian. Must-see video (3:09): Slideshow with paintings by Agnes Noyes Goodsir.
Norwegian art historian Jorunn Veiteberg has written a biography about Norwegian artist Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859-1948). Ambrosia studied first in Berlin and later she lived and worked as a sculptor in Paris for more than 20 years. She had talent and was a successful artist.