A reconstruction of a forgotten exhibition.
A virtual display of colour woodblock prints created by German women artists 1900 - 1939 from a private collection. A monument to the artists who took part in a forgotten 1939 exhibition to commemorate the 25. Anniversary of the 1914 Leipzig BUGRA exhibitions that were organised in an all women pavilion: Das Haus der Frau.
It is also the home of several other collections of neglected, pre-owned and loved-before works of art often created by forgotten and obscured artists.
The accompanying exhibition and collection book is a 500 page Lexicon in 2 Volumes and a Who-is-Who of colour woodblock printmaking (“Farbholzschnitt”) in Imperial and Weimar Germany. Privately (2022) printed in an edition of 25. Last 5 copies available. See: Publications.
March 2024 PDF edition: revised, updated and extended to 625 pages of artists biographies related to printmaking pioneering German Women Artists and their contemporary colleagues, academies, schools, magazines, galleries, organisations but also the history of Modern Printmaking etc…. etc.. Un-endless digital cross reference possibilities.
PDF: Paypal (gerbrandcaspers@icloud.com): €30.-