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Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Series Editors:
Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts, USA)

Visual Cultures and German Contexts publishes innovative research into visual culture in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities outside of these geographic, historical, and political borders.

The series invites scholarship by academics, curators, architects, artists, and designers across all media forms and lime periods. It engages with traditional methods in visual culture analysis as well as inventive interdisciplinary approaches. It seeks to encourage a dialogue amongst scholars in traditional disciplines with those pursuing innovative interdisciplinary and intermedial research. Of particular interest are provocative perspectives on archival materials, original scholarship on emerging and established creative visual fields, investigations into time-based forms of aesthetic expression, and new readings of history through the lens of visual culture. The series offers a much needed venue for expanding how we engage with the field of Visual Culture in general.

Proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and outstanding research studies are welcome, by established as well as emerging writers from a wide range of comparative, theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Advisory Board:

Donna West Brett, University of Sydney, Australia

Charlotte Klonk, Humboldt Universitt Berlin, Germany

Nina Lbbren, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA

Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell University, USA

Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota, USA

Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA

Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, USA

Annette F. Timm, University of Calgary, Canada

James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri, USA

Forthcoming Volumes in the Series:

Art and Resistance in Germany, edited by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Elizabeth Otto

Photofascism: Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy, by Vanessa Rocco

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany and Beyond, 18501930: (No)Home Away from Home, by Erin Eckhold Sassin

Ilse Bettenheim-Hornecke, Aus dem Unterricht von Gertrud Grunow: Grunowscher Farbkreis, Mastab 1:10 (From a Class with Gertrud Grunow, Grunows Color Wheel, Scale 1:10), 1924. Ink and watercolor on paper. 29.9 41.2 cm (11.8 16.2 in.). Klassik Stiftung Weimar, ID 471554; Gr-2010/618.

Alfred Arndt, Farbkreis aus dem Unterricht von Gertrud Grunow (Color Circle from Gertrud Grunows Lessons), c. 1921. Watercolor, ink, pencil, and silver paper on brown handmade paper. 46.7 46 cm (18.4 18.1 in.). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin 2018 VG-Bildkunst, Bonn; Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Johannes Itten, Analysen alter Meister (Analyses of Old Masters), page from: Utopia: Dokumente der Wirklichkeit (Utopia: Documents of Reality), ed. Bruno Adler (Mnchen: Kraus Reprint, 1980 [1921]).

Lis Beyer-Volger, Dress, 1928. 101.1 60 42 cm (39.8 23.6 16.5 in.). Cotton and artificial silk. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (I 2423T), Volger, Elisabeth (ne Beyer), Volger, Alexander and Dr. Elisabeth David.

Charlotte Rudolph, Palucca-Tanzbild mit doppeltem Schatten (Dance Study of Gret Palucca with Double Shadow), 1925. Gelatin silver print, retouched. 19.2 17 cm (7.6 6.7 in.). Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo Credit: bpk Bildargentur/Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden/Art Resource, NY 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Karla Grosch, ber den Kreis (On the Circle), c. 1927. Chalk drawing. 18.8 12.4 cm (7.4 4.9 in.). Stiftung Akademie der Knste, Gret Palucca Archiv, Berlin. Photo Credit: Stiftung Akademie der Knste, Berlin.

Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, WA (presumably provided as a contribution by the Wall-Painting Workshop for the portfolio 9 jahre bauhaus: eine chronik [9 Years of the Bauhaus: A Chronicle]), 1928. Tempera, watercolor, and collage. 41.9 53.9 cm (16.5 21.2 in.). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, Lettre Adriatique (Adriatic Letter), holiday greeting to Maria Rasch, August 23, 1928. Gouache, watercolor, India ink on paper. 28.8 21.3 cm (11.3 8.4 in.). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

Oskar Schlemmer, Konzentrische Gruppe (Concentric Group), 1925; oil on canvas: 27.4 22 cm (10.8 8.7 in.). Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Roter Junge (Red Youth), 1928; oil on canvas: 76 46 cm (29.9 18.1 in.). Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Irena Blhov, Roenka slovenskej chudoby (The Yearbook of Slovak Poverty), 1933. Black and white photograph. 26 21 cm (10.2 8.2 in.). Moravsk zemsk knihovna, Brno Irena Blhov (successors)/LITA, 2018.

E. Schilling, Berlin W. Simplicissimus 37, no. 35 (November 27 1932): 417. Image courtesy Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Photo: Dietmar Katz.

Photograph by Erich Consemller (?), figures and staging by Oskar Schlemmer, Der Bau (Bauhausneubau) als Bhne (The Building [Bauhaus New Building] as Stage), 1928. Gelatin silver print with ink drawing and red pencil by Schlemmer. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (Inv. Nr. F 74). 17 4.1 cm (6.7 1.6 in.). Image courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, with kind permission of Stephan Consemller.

Bauhaus 2:2/3, 1928, journal cover with photographs of (from left to right and top to bottom): Wassilly Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Hannes Meyer, Hinrik Scheper, Josef Albers, Joost Schmidt, Gunta Stlzl, Hans Wittwer, Ernst Keallai, Oskar Schlemmer, and Mart Stam. 29.7 21 cm (11.7 8.3 in.). Private Collection.

Bauhaus 2:4, 1928, journal cover with photograph by Lotte Besse. 29.7 21 cm (11.7 8.3 in.). Private Collection.

Unknown photographer, untitled (photograph of Gertrud Arndt along with Bauhaus women and babies on the balcony of a Bauhaus Master House, Dessau), c. 1930. Collection of the Getty Research Library. 8.3 5.7 cm (3.25 2.25 in.). Image courtesy Getty Research Library.

Otti Berger, Tasttafel aus Fden, Arbeit aus dem Vorkurs Moholy-Nagy, 2. Semester (Touch Panel of Threads, Project for Moholy-Nagys Preliminary Course, 2nd Semester), 1928. Diverse textile threads affixed to wire mesh, with various colored card squares inserted. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (Inv. Nr. 6438). 14 57 cm (5.5 22.4 in.). Image courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.

The Bauhaus Community: An Overview.

Unknown photographer, Marguerite Friedlaender with Dornburg castle in the background, 1925. Gelatin silver print. 12 9 cm (4.7 3.5 in.). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Inv. No. F 2009/3.2.

Unknown photographer, Franz Rudolf Wildenhain and Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain in their studio Het Kruikje in Putten, Netherlands, 1933. Gelatin silver print. 8 11 cm (3.1 4.3 in.).Nrnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Deutsches Kunstarchiv, DKA, NL, Marcks, Gerhard, I,C-568a-1933_09_26_Fotografie_0006a.

Unknown photographer, Lis Beyer-Volger and Hans Volger in Randersacker, 1931. Gelatin silver print. 23.7 17.4 cm (9.3 6.9 in.). Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Inv. No. 9797.