The great Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot was born #onthisday in 1841.

This is her beautiful 1893 painting The Water Jug

#art #arthistory #BertheMorisot #Impressionism #womensart

The fascinating artist Tina Bauer-Pezellen was born #onthisday in 1897 in Kotor, Montenegro; then Cattaro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

She studied in Vienna and later was influenced by the work of the great German artists Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz and her work shares their poignant sense of empathy

In the 30s she and her husband moved to Germany, but her work was denounced by the Nazis

#art #arthistory #TinaBauerPezellen #womensart #expressionism #austrianart #20thcenturyart

I wrote about, um, George Orwell and the role of incognito upper class people in British culture and the media, oddly

http://williampinfold.com/bounders-in-oiks-clothing-the-reign-of-the-ordinary-bloke/

#writing #GeorgeOrwell #class

The great German-Jewish painter Lotte Laserstein was born #onthisday in 1898.

The main focus of her early art was the "new woman" of the 20s, which was enough for the Third Reich to condemn her work, but from 1934 she was officially banned from exhibiting under the new racial laws.
In 1937 she fled to Sweden, where she remained for the rest of her life

#arthistory #LotteLaserstein #womensart #Jewishart #NeueSachlichkeit #20thcenturyart #modernism #modernart

The French artist, photographer and poet Dora Maar was born on this day in 1907.
Her own paintings are rarely seen compared to the portraits of her by Picasso, but she was an accomplished and fascinating artist.
These paintings are from 1937 & 1938 and the beautifully atmospheric photo of Dora is from 1941 and by the French-Hungarian photographer Rogi André (Rosza Klein)

#art #arthistory #DoraMaar #modernism #1930s #womensart #RogiAndré

An article about Courbet, the Paris Commune and what to do with historically significant but toxic monuments:

http://williampinfold.com/courbets-birthday-the-case-for-careful-iconoclasm/

#art #arthistory #iconoclasm