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Kerry Wallach

@kerrywallach.bsky.social
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German & Jewish Studies. Literature, history, film, art. Author of Traces of a Jewish Artist (2024) & Passing Illusions (2017). kerrywallach.com

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Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Delighted to raise a glass to a lovely surprise that arrived in today’s mail - congratulations all! What a wonderful bunch to work with and many thanks @jennifervevans.bsky.social @kerrywallach.bsky.social, Jill Suzanne Smith, Javier Samper Vendrell and Andrew Webber for your generous endorsements!
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Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I highly recommend visiting the amazing new exhibition at Jüdisches Museum Berlin - DEFIANCE: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era (WIDERSTÄNDE: Jüdische Designerinnen der Moderne), open now through Nov. 23 @jmberlin.bsky.social www.jmberlin.de/en/defiance-...
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Defiance | Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era: exhibition
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Green Turban, 1927 by Polish Art Deco painter Tamara De Lempicka #WomensArt
Painting featuring the head and shoulders of two white wonen, one leaning in to the other while the first subject, in a green turban style hat, lookings directly outwards, the figure to the right gazes adoringly at the other
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
German expressionist painter Gabriele Münter, Meditation, 1917 #womensart
Painting of a white woman looking thoughtful facing forwards with chin resting on her hans in an interior with flowers and low light
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Tea pot by Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #womensart
Photo featuring a round silver coloured metal teapot with small spout and arched handle
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#ArtHerstory has published the "New Books about #WomenArtists" book round-up for Q1, 2025! Visit this link for a list of recently published monographs and exhibition catalogs, as well as children's books: artherstory.net/new-books-ab... #NewBooksAboutWomenArtists
Two rows of 4 book jackets each. All of the books are about a woman artist or a group of women artists.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hannah Höch and her Dada puppets, 1920 #womensart
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Finnish woman, 1907 by Ukrainian-French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay #WomensArt
Painting in vivid colours of the head and shoulders of a white young woman with blonde hair tied back and in a pinkish top facing slight right, the backdrop has a floral pattern on white
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Old Woman in the garden, 1906 German Expressionist painter #WomensArt
Stylised painting featuring a seated older white woman in black hat orange jacket and patterned blue skirt holding a flower stem and in front of rows of flowering plants in a garden setting
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Murnau, 1908 by Gabriele Münter, German Expressionist painter #WomensArt
Painting of a landscape and small village in early morning light with trees on a slope in the foreground, buildings with red roofs and then mountains in the distance
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs #WomensArt
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Gabriele Münter, Landscape by the Sea, 1919 #womensart
Painting of a white woman in a white dress and pink jacket reclining on a hillside overlooking a green valley of trees and fields and with the sea on the horizon
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait, 1889, pen and black ink, German artist #WomensArt
Portrait in monochrome of the upper half of a young white woman facing right and looking outwards wearing a jacket and with hair tied back and with one hand visible holding her jacket
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
WOMENSART Blog: Jeanne Mammen & the Women of Berlin’s Cabaret womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/p...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#WOMENSART blog: Hannah Höch, and the Deconstruction of The Beautiful Girl womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/h...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
WomensArt blog: German Expressionist Painter Gabrielle Münter womensartblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/g...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Expressionist painter Marianne Werefkin, The big moon, 1923 #WomensArt
Painting of a mountainous landscape with a lake, on the shore in the foreground three figures push a rowing boat into the water while two more figures watch, two sailing boats are on the lake, above the rocky mountains a golden full moon rises
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Portrait of the Duchess of La Salle, 1925 by Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka #womensart
Painted portrait of a standing white woman with dark hair in black jacket  trousers and white shirt facing forwards with one foot on a higher step and one hand in her pocket
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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ten doctoral scholarships on German-Jewish history and culture to be awarded in the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2025/26 For more information including application details, please visit: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship
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Kirsten loves art @kirstenlovesart.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Dodo, geb. Dörte Clara Wolff (1907-1998), war erfolgreiche Illustratorin im Berlin der 1930er Jahre. Wegen ihrer jüdischen Abstimmung wurde sie aus dem Berufsleben gedrängt und emigrierte 1936 mit ihren Kindern nach London, wo sie Kinderbücher und Grußkarten illustrierte. Hier „Der Windhund“, 1929.
Illustration: Eine elegant gekleidete Frau führt vor stilisierter Stadtkulisse einen Windhund spazieren. Sie wird beobachtet von einem Mann im Anzug mit Hut.
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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Am 18. Februar 1882 wurde Malva Schalek in Prag geboren. Sie studierte Malerei in München, nahm in Wien Unterricht bei Marie Rosenthal-Hatschek. Bei ihrer Flucht 1938 in die Tschechoslowakei musste sie ihre Bilder in ihrem Wiener Atelier zurücklassen. In Theresienstadt porträtierte sie den Alltag. 🧵
Selbstportrait zeigt eine Frau mit dunklem Haar im weißen Kittel vor einem roten Vorhang. In der Hand hält sie einen Pinsel, dahinter eine Palette. Nachweis von Wiki commons folgt.
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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
March is #WomensHistoryMonth! To honor it, we're giving you 40% off select titles when you use discount code WHM25 at checkout. Sale ends 3/31: buff.ly/lmciAcg
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Lotte Laserstein, Reclining Girl on Blue c.1931 #WomensArt
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Women artists have been overlooked throughout history. Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists, giving you a place to start exploring their work. #WomensHistoryMonth Here's A 👉 buff.ly/4Vi5IGY 'Bubbles' by Amy B. Atkinson (1859–1916) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery
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An A-Z of 1,000 women artists represented on Art UK: Aaerens to Ayrton | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Escape,1940 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, painted just after the artist arrived in the US and it evokes the hardships of war in Europe #WomensArt
Painting featuring a white woman with tired and sad expression, upper half to the left, holdind a baby wrapped in a white sheet, the figure stands in a dark street under dark clouds
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart
Photo of a white-cream plate with momimal art deco design including thin green and black half circle lines and green circles
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Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“It is impossible to study Jewish history without studying antisemitism."
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Interdisciplinary Studies Department Hosts Antisemitism Lecture 500 Days After Oct. 7 Attack
By Nathaniel Swindell, Staff Writer The interdisciplinary studies department held a lecture and Q&A on antisemitism on Tuesday, Feb. 18 — exactly 500 days after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by H…
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Anthill, c.1916 by Expressionist painter Marianne von Werefkin #womensart
Painting of a stylised rural scene with agricultural workers working in fields on a hillside
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Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I was honored to give a distinguished lecture about Jewish artist Rahel Szalit at UT Knoxville on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many thanks to @helenesinnreich.bsky.social for the invitation. @utknoxville.bsky.social
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Remembering the life of Jewish artist, Holocaust victim Rahel Szalit
Kerry Wallach has spent years working to resurrect the life story and works of Jewish artist Rahel Szalit, shedding light on the profound impact of Szalit’s previously unknown art.
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Paula Becker @paulabecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Two women in the garden with fountain www.wikiart.org/en/paula-modersohn-…
Two women in the garden with fountain
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2025
Auschwitz: 80 years after its liberation, three survivors tell their stories
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Auschwitz: 80 years after its liberation, three survivors tell their stories
Monday 27 January is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three survivors, two of whom were interned there as teenagers, tell Kate Connolly their stories. Continue reading...
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Gabriele Münter @gabmunter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Anna Roslund (1891–1941) www.wikiart.org/en/gabriele-munter/…
Anna Roslund (1891–1941)
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dada artist Hannah Höch, Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 #womensart
Collage artwork with many images of eyes which have been cut out of magazines, some monochrome and   some in colour, placed together to resemble a busy and full bouquet of flowers, on an orange background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fashion design images from Ukrainian-French artist and designer Sonia Delaunay's sketch book, in an Art Deco style (c.1925) #womensart
Painting of three individual stylised figures in angular Art Deco designs, the one to the left in shiwn wearing an orange black and brown striped dress, the middle figure has a large curved design outfit and the third has triangular shapes, all suggesting exaggerated fashion  designs
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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking forward to speaking with @kerrywallach.bsky.social tomorrow evening about her important work recovering the life and art of Rahel Szalit. Join us! bit.ly/HBIConversat... @psupress.bsky.social @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social #hbiconversations #weimarrepublic #jewsky #jewishartists #booksky
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Kerry Wallach, author of Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit. Afte...
HBI is honored to have supported Kerry Wallach’s research on this with a 2019 HBI Research Award. Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-know...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Grete Marks (1899-1990) ceramic artist who studied at the influential German Bauhaus school #womensart
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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Join HBI next Wed. when we speak with Dr. @kerrywallach.bsky.social about the life and work of Rahel Szalit (1888–1942), a highly regarded graphic artist, illustrator, painter & cartoonist in the Weimar Republic who was lost to history with her murder at Auschwitz. 1/22, 7 pm EST. bit.ly/HBIEVENTS
Text: Brandeis, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series, and QR Code. Below, book cover with drawing of woman with long earrings looking down and text Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit, and Jan 22, next to photo of Kerry Wallach, a woman with brown hair smiling and wearing a tan jacket.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938 by Swedish German painter Lotte Laserstein #WomensArt
painted portrait of a white woman, upper half facing right and looking out towards the viewer with one eyebrow raised, in the act of painting in a studio, she has short dark hair and wears a white overall shirt and has a tabby cat on her lap which she cradles, behind is a window overlooking gardens and a cloudy sky
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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Looking forward as well @kerrywallach.bsky.social! ⬇️ #jewishwomenartists #artists #jewsky #biography #booksky #jewish #holocaust #hbiconversations #hbiresearchawards @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social @psupress.bsky.social
Text: Brandeis, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series, and QR Code. Below, book cover with drawing of woman with long earrings looking down and text Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit, and Jan 22, next to photo of Kerry Wallach, a woman with brown hair smiling and wearing a tan jacket.
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Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Looking forward to this Hadassah-Brandeis Institute event next week! It will take place online at 7pm EST on Wednesday, January 22. (For those in other time zones: it will be recorded!)
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Käthe Kollwitz @kkollwitz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Mother with Child www.wikiart.org/en/kathe-kollwitz/n…
Mother with Child
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"Das persönliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten,sondern was unsere Freunde taten", sagte Hannah Arendt 1964. #Riesa
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Polish art deco style painter, Tamara de Lempicka, The Blue Scarf, 1930 #WomensArt
Painted portrait of the head and shoulders of a white woman facing slight left, the subject has blonde hair under a black beret, red lips, and wears a large striped blue and white scarf around her neck
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Marie Laurencin @marielaurencin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Self-Portrait www.wikiart.org/en/marie-laurencin/…
Self-Portrait
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Teapot (c.1930) by Grete Marks, ceramic artist and Bauhaus student #WomensArt
Photo of a cream  teapot, from the side, handle of two circles to the left and small spout right, the teapot is triangular shaped with a small circular base and wider circular lid, the pot is decorated with a green strip and two green circles towards the handle, it rests on a white surface
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer, Sonia Delaunay's Art deco fashion designs (c.1924) #WomensArt
Painted artwork featuring five stylised female figures in a central group  wearing simple long dresses in vivid blocks of colour, against a background featuring angular and curved lines in bright colours
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Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
German Studies has two faculty members in this group of recently tenured and promoted faculty!
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Gettysburg College @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Congratulations to six faculty who were granted tenure and the rank of associate professor and five faculty who were granted the rank of full professor! Each make a profound impact on current and future generations of Gettysburgians. bit.ly/3ZZxROS
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Gettysburg College recognizes new associate and full professors
A highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Hadassah Brandeis Institute HBI @hadassahbrandeis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Looking forward to speaking with @kerrywallach.bsky.social about her poignant biography, TRACES OF A JEWISH ARTIST: THE LOST LIFE AND WORK OF RAHEL SZALIT. We’re honored to have supported Wallach's work of recovery w/ a #hbiresearchaward. Join us 1/22 at 7 pm EST bit.ly/HBIEVENTS #hbiconversations
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