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“Young Malay Maiden with Black Hair” by Irma Stern (South African) - Oil on canvas / 1938 - Brücke-Museum (Berlin, Germany) #WomenInArt #IrmaStern #Stern #art #artText #artwork #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #BrueckeMuseum #SouthAfricanArtist #WomenPaintingWomen
A young woman sits, filling the canvas in a tight, cropped view in a pose that feels both elegant and guarded. Her wavy black hair is gathered low at the neck, catching blue-green highlights in thick paint. Large, half-lidded eyes, ringed by violet shadow, hold a steady gaze beneath strong arched brows; her lips are closed, tinted a muted rose. She wears a white, thin-strapped camisole. Warm tan-and-brown skin is built from brisk strokes of peach, rust, and pale yellow, with cool green and purple dragged into the shadows. One arm folds across her chest, the forearm cutting a diagonal through the composition. Her hands rise near her cheek, fingers loosely bent as if pausing mid-thought. The surface is visibly worked with overlapping strokes, small ridges, and scraped passages that let underlayers breathe through. Behind her, a saturated violet ground is scored with a loose golden grid. Dated 1938, this portrait shows Irma Stern’s modernist compression of simplified forms, heightened color, and a direct encounter that refuses decorative sweetness. The title’s “Malay” label shows how identity can be assigned from the outside. Stern counters that flattening by making the sitter feel self-contained, watchful, fully present. The Brücke-Museum’s exhibition asks us to hold Stern’s contradictions together. She trained in Weimar and Berlin and was persecuted in Nazi Germany as a Jewish artist, but she was also a white South African working within colonial and apartheid-era power. In that light, the woman’s unflinching gaze might be a quiet refusal of easy categories.
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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People matching artworks No. 4000. :) #peoplematchingartworks #irmastern #brueckemuseum #stefandraschan #photography #contemporaryart #berlin #photooftheday
July 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Fritz Bleyl: Der Pelikan, 1904
#fritzbleyl #pelikan #painting #artoftheweek #artwork #artlovers #brueckemuseum #berlin #artbymen #artonbluesky #artwillsaveus 💛
April 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Seit Jahren leisten Direktorin Lisa Marei Schmidt und ihr Team im @brueckemuseum herausragende Arbeit - mehr Beachtung und Anerkennung im politischen Raum - nicht nur bei Preisverleihungen - wäre mehr als verdient! www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/ausze...
Auszeichnung für das Brücke-Museum: Eine Feier der Neugier, Empathie und Gerechtigkeit
Das kleinste Landesmuseum Berlins bekommt als Erstes die besondere Anerkennung der deutschen Sektion des Kritikerverbands Aica. Ein Happy End für Direktorin Lisa Marei Schmidt.
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June 18, 2024 at 6:39 AM