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Rosa Schapire - emancipated woman, passionate promoter of expressionist art, uprooted in London exile, but fighter to the end.
"If I had lived in the Middle Ages, I would probably have become a nun or a saint," Rosa Schapire wrote shortly before her death in 1954. At the turn of the century, she had decided against traditional role models and for a life as an intellectual. She was one of the first women to receive a doctorate in art history in Heidelberg, moved to Hamburg in 1905 and there became enthusiastic about the emerging Expressionism movement - especially the artists' group "Brücke" and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, whom she later supported as a patron. Her commitment to the new art movement, which was ostracised by the National Socialists as "degenerate", made her - especially as a Jew - suspicious to those in power. She only escaped anti-Semitic persecution by fleeing to London in 1939. During the war years, Rosa Schapire built up a new, albeit precarious, existence there as a translator, among other things. Her letters to Karl Schmidt-Rottluff from the last years of her life, which are analysed comprehensively here for the first time, show an exiled woman who, despite her worries and longing for death, always found the strength to stand up for Expressionist art.
Susanne Wittek is an author, translator and moderator. Jacques Semelin's study "The Survival of Jews in France 1940-1944" (2018) was published in her translation.
Publications include: "So Henceforth I Must Consider the Tie Loosened." Ernst Cassirer's Hamburg Years 1919 to 1933 (2019).
Wallstein Verlag | Hardcover | Series: Artists in Hamburg, Volume 2 | Edited by Ekkehard Nümann | 204 pages | Language German
"If I had lived in the Middle Ages, I would probably have become a nun or a saint," Rosa Schapire wrote shortly before her death in 1954. At the turn of the century, she had decided against traditional role models and for a life as an intellectual. She was one of the first women to receive a doctorate in art history in Heidelberg, moved to Hamburg in 1905 and there became enthusiastic about the emerging Expressionism movement - especially the artists' group "Brücke" and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, whom she later supported as a patron. Her commitment to the new art movement, which was ostracised by the National Socialists as "degenerate", made her - especially as a Jew - suspicious to those in power. She only escaped anti-Semitic persecution by fleeing to London in 1939. During the war years, Rosa Schapire built up a new, albeit precarious, existence there as a translator, among other things. Her letters to Karl Schmidt-Rottluff from the last years of her life, which are analysed comprehensively here for the first time, show an exiled woman who, despite her worries and longing for death, always found the strength to stand up for Expressionist art.
Susanne Wittek is an author, translator and moderator. Jacques Semelin's study "The Survival of Jews in France 1940-1944" (2018) was published in her translation.
Publications include: "So Henceforth I Must Consider the Tie Loosened." Ernst Cassirer's Hamburg Years 1919 to 1933 (2019).
Wallstein Verlag | Hardcover | Series: Artists in Hamburg, Volume 2 | Edited by Ekkehard Nümann | 204 pages | Language German
