{"id":2356,"date":"2021-06-09T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lostwomenart.de\/?post_type=artist&p=2356"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:44:15","slug":"dorothea-maetzel-johannsen","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.lostwomenart.de\/en\/artist\/dorothea-maetzel-johannsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothea Maetzel – Johannsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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1886 \u2013 1930 \/ Female Modernist Artist<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen\u2019s cubist-expressive work was once enormously successful. Today it is hardly known, although the artist accomplished impressive things in her all too short lifespan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t

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Growing-up & Early training<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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Maetzel-Johannsen was born in 1889 near Oldenburg. As a child, she loves to retreat into nature, paint and draw – with incredible talent!<\/p>\n

During her apprenticeship as an art teacher at the Hamburg Trade School for Girls, Maetzel-Johannsen is made aware of her outstanding talent by her teachers and fellow students. Unable to receive professional artistic training, the young artist is frustrated.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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\u201cOh, if only I could get the education I want, how wonderful would that be. \u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n\n\t
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In artistic harmony with her husband<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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Maetzel-Johannsen worked as a drawing teacher for only one year, because – as a married woman in 1910 – she was no longer allowed to work. But her marriage to the architect and painter Emil Maetzel turned out to be a great fortune for her artistic development. It was Maetzel-Johannsen\u2019s talent that initially sparked the interest of her future husband and so the two create side by side and mutually inspire each other\u2019s art.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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\u201cHow you are always forced to let go of everything, because you do want to create something before you leave forever. \u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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In the midst of the art world<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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Almost restlessly, it seems, the artist became involved in the art scene of the Weimar Republic. Together with her husband and artist colleague Anita R\u00e9e, she became a founding member of the Hamburg Secession in 1919. In the same year, she began to work in an expressionist way, choosing the motif of the female nude. Her work \u201cTwo Nudes with Moon Sickle\u201d is particularly impressive and representative of this style.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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