Dieser Zeitraum ist 1900 bis heute. In dieser Zeit ereignete sich ein riesiger Kunstboom. Dies ist der Zeitraum, in dem die meisten Kunstwerke ausgestellt waren. Dies ist hauptsächlich auf die Erfindung der Kamera zurückzuführen. Die Menschen hatten viel mehr Möglichkeiten, Kunst zu machen, und mehr Menschen waren daran interessiert, Kunst zu machen. Es gab viele Fotos. Die meiste Kunst mit Frauen waren Fotos. Frauen wurden zu einem großen Schwerpunkt der Kunst. Das Einfangen der Schönheit wurde sehr beliebt.

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Before the Mirror

Accession Number
1960/2.86

Title
Before the Mirror

Artist(s)
Erich Heckel

Artist Nationality
German (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1920

Medium & Support
lithograph on paper

Dimensions
19 1/2 in x 15 3/16 in (49.5 cm x 38.6 cm);22 in x 28 in (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm);19 1/2 in x 15 3/16 in (49.53 cm x 38.58 cm);24 7/16 in x 17 7/8 in (62 cm x 45.4 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Label copy
In a rapidly changing Germany, women, especially young women, wrestled with the new roles that modern life made available to them and the old roles still expected of them. Erich Heckel’s Before the Mirror depicts a scene that became a pervasive and powerful image of the “new woman” in German culture during the twenties. The introspective woman before the mirror appears in numerous graphic works and films of that time.
Released from the confines of domesticity by the war, during which demand for labor created a large female workforce, and by the opportunities to engage in city life and its entertainments, the young independent woman was an icon of modern Germany. The image of the free "new woman” was, however, more myth than reality. The new roles available to women were not carefree, and even when women embraced their new positions, they found themselves juggling their new obligations with the established roles of wife and mother.
Text written by Katharine A. Weiss, Exhibitions Assistant, on the occasion of the UMMA exhibition Graphic Visions: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, January 25–April 6, 2003, West Gallery

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
Expressionism
modern and contemporary art

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